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Lynxan1

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I loved this, it's about as good as you can do with the material as this has the opposite problem that the Harry Potter movies have, there's now too little in the story and you have to add on. This can be a disastrous thing if not handled right...
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I loved this, it's about as good as you can do with the material as this has the opposite problem that the Harry Potter movies have, there's now too little in the story and you have to add on. This can be a disastrous thing if not handled right (See The Cat in the Hat for how not to) and here it at least all fits.

Mind you I also like the old one from the 80s that was made by the BBC in a delightfully cheesy way.

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Posted may 15, 2009 12:50 pm pt

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It's a pretty good movie.Well,the movie was pretty cool.I say that this movie is pretty cool.

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Posted may 13, 2009 10:00 am pt

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This film was an absolutely breathtaking movie from beginning to end. The actors, scenery, and special effects were brilliant in every way possible. I was reluctant to see this movie at first, because of it being a Disney movie, but once I saw it,...
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This film was an absolutely breathtaking movie from beginning to end. The actors, scenery, and special effects were brilliant in every way possible. I was reluctant to see this movie at first, because of it being a Disney movie, but once I saw it, I was completely blown away. I had never read the book series before I saw this film, but afterward I made it a point to read all seven books, and I have to say that this movie does the book justice. I have to say that The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe is now one of my all time favorite movies.

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Posted sep 23, 2008 4:55 am pt

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I thought this movie would be awesome...
But after seeing it, it's too painful to watchI don't like Disney movies that much

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Posted aug 22, 2008 3:39 pm pt

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I didn't read the books, so I didn't know anything about the movie. I just heard from it. It was not a bad movie and the performenses of the actors were really good for their young ages. Specially the one from the youngest girl. I didn't expect...
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I didn't read the books, so I didn't know anything about the movie. I just heard from it. It was not a bad movie and the performenses of the actors were really good for their young ages. Specially the one from the youngest girl. I didn't expect anything of this movie, so I wasn't disappounted. But in the other hand I wasn't really blown away. The second movie I didn't see yet. I was a good story, that I must admit. So overall this movie was good and when I get the chance I will look at: The chronicles of narnia: Prince Caspian.

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Posted aug 15, 2008 5:40 am pt

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It was sad to me that it was very childish. It had corny humor and not that much action so little kids could see it. And that's why it was rated PG, so I just thought it was okay but I never see it anymore because there's just too much childish...
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It was sad to me that it was very childish. It had corny humor and not that much action so little kids could see it. And that's why it was rated PG, so I just thought it was okay but I never see it anymore because there's just too much childish stuff.

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Posted jul 14, 2008 3:50 am pt

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I expected this to be brilliant, but after seeing this, I thought it was OK but a bit overhyped and a bit rubbish though, I don't recommend watching it although my review shouldn't stop people from watching it.

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Posted jul 11, 2008 9:35 pm pt

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While sent out to a professors house during World War 2, four children discover a magical wardrobe that transport them into the magical land of Narnia, where it's winter all the time. They meet up with two beavers telling them that the only way...
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While sent out to a professors house during World War 2, four children discover a magical wardrobe that transport them into the magical land of Narnia, where it's winter all the time. They meet up with two beavers telling them that the only way to make it spring, is for two sons of Adam and two daughters of Eve must defeat the wicked White Which.

Finally, a movie that respects a book. This movie is how I visioned the book. Usually, when movie companies make a book into a movie, usually they mess the whole thing up, but in this book adaption, they only added one scene that wasn't in the book that actually worked.
I liked it.
Can't wait for the second!

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Posted apr 13, 2008 4:50 am pt

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Amazing! A must see fantasy!

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Posted mar 5, 2008 9:37 am pt

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This is such a good movie. I was suprise how true this movie is to the book. C.S. Lewis is one of my favorite author and he did a great job writing the story. And the film makers did an excellent job making this movie. It's really worth watching...
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This is such a good movie. I was suprise how true this movie is to the book. C.S. Lewis is one of my favorite author and he did a great job writing the story. And the film makers did an excellent job making this movie. It's really worth watching and I can't wait til Prince Casper come out. The movie really had amazing speacial effect. I give it 4 1/2 stars.

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Posted feb 5, 2008 2:43 am pt

• [+] New York Daily News
  
  100
  A generation-spanning journey that feels both comfortingly familiar and excitingly original.

  by Elizabeth Weitzman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Baltimore Sun
  
  100
  Plunges into an imaginative landscape as large as all creation - and never slackens its barreling pace or shrinks its panoramic scope.

  by Michael Sragow | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  100
  A movie of intelligence and power, of beauty, universality and largeness of spirit.

  by Mick LaSalle | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  100
  The picture goes exactly where the prose does, enticing all of us, kids and adults and atheists and believers alike, down below the brittle surface of our cold logic and into a richer world of imaginative wonder.

  by Rick Groen | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
  91
  Spiritual redemption is a big theme of Narnia, but on a purely entertainment level, the movie also goes a long way in redeeming the current sad state of children's fantasy filmmaking.

  by Peter Rainer | Read Full Review »
• [+] Dallas Observer
  
  90
  If you're a fan of C.S. Lewis' Narnia books, all you need to know is this: Disney has done right by The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. It's impossible to imagine it done much better, in fact.

  by Luke Y. Thompson | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  90
  By staying focused on the children -- frightened evacuees from the London Blitz whose parallel war in Narnia both taps into and finally quiets their unspoken terrors -- Adamson keeps faith with the humanity of Lewsis' tale.

  by Ella Taylor | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
  90
  What is lightly sketched in the novel, where much is left to the imagination, blossoms into full-blown, richly detailed life in the movie.

  by Kirk Honeycutt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Village Voice
  
  90
  Robust, engrossing, and surprisingly restrained in saving most of its effects for the grand finale, the first Chronicles of Narnia installment eschews Harry Potter's satanic subtext and "The Lord of the Rings'" Wagnerian cosmology. It may be as close to adult-friendly kid fare as Hollywood will ever get.

  by J. Hoberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  90
  What's best about it is that it seems real by the logic of childhood - it looks as things SHOULD look, if kids had it their way.

  by Carina Chocano | Read Full Review »
• [+] Slate
  
  90
  An entertaining, emotional, and surprisingly intimate movie--an epic saga of fauns and talking (Cockney) beavers and evil sorceresses and triumphal resurrections and massive, sweeping battles that nonetheless feels ... small.

  by David Edelstein | Read Full Review »
• [+] Salon.com
  
  90
  There's nothing too clean or too overbright about it. It's magic, but not the loud, shiny kind: It has the texture of worn velvet, or a painstakingly hand-knit sweater stored away for years in tissue paper.

  by Stephanie Zacharek | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  90
  Well told, handsome, stirring and loads of fun.

  by Stephen Hunter | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  80
  The next two hours might not have quite delivered on that initial promise of wonder - we grown-ups, being heavy, are not so easily swept away by visual tricks - except when I looked away from the screen at the faces of breathless and wide-eyed children, my own among them, for whom the whole experience was new, strange, disturbing and delightful.

  by Dana Stevens | Read Full Review »
• [+] Newsweek
  
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  Narnia, brightly lit and kid-friendly, has an appealingly old-fashioned feel to it. Adamson, codirector of "Shrek," wisely doesn't try to hip-ify the tale, leaving its curious blend of medieval pageantry, Christian fable and children's bedtime story intact.

  by David Ansen | Read Full Review »