The only good book in the very overrated C.S. Lewis Narnia series, this version is smothered in music and loaded with phony computer special effects.
After about one hour, I quite frankly had my fill of talking beavers horses, foxes and lions. Add to the list evil wolves and polar bears. The whole thing just seems kind of stupid. The kids aren't so great either, the two girls seem mighty affected almost like they are reading their lines from big cue cards off camera like a late night talk show host.
The computer effects of the Narnia countryside seem kind of cheesy as well which is kind of surprising since WETA the company that worked on the Lord of the Rings films was responsible for them.
The reason The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe even exists is to dip into the same fantasy adventure well as The Lord of the Rings series. The possibility of generating buckets of money off of the six Narnia stories was too much to pass up. The Disney studios hoping to get a piece of the "Dungeons and Dragons" nerd boy crowd that the Tolkin books and films were able to attract saw dollar signs floating in the air.
Disney cleverly marketed the film to the Christian church crowd and the film was a big hit for them. This film was followed up by a sequel, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian which didn't perform as well as the first film. Disney dumped the series, 20th Century Fox picked it up and released The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader which also underperformed at the box office. There have been no more sequels since.
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