Who's seen Narnia?

I was Narnia adorer as a little kid.....and there is still magic there (though I was disappointed when I picked up the christian allegory stuff as an older kid).




So...I liked the film!

Mr Tumnus was perfect.....and I liked that they kept a lot of detail.

I liked it.

I went into seeing the movie with almost knowing nothing about the stories.

About a couple of weeks prior to seeing it, I did watch something on TV talking about the movie. It was in regards to Lewis and how he was a Christian, and everything to do with the Narnia Chronicles had Christian symbolism all over the place.

I would have perferred not knowing that, but it didn't spoil it for me (I'm not a Christian). I could see in some places where it was intended.

Instead, I concentrated on the story and the technical deftness of the making of it. The various characters were absolutely excellent.

Of course, the gist of the movie, good versus evil, has been told many times. It's told here much better than, let's say, the Harry Potter films, for example, in my opinion.

Nice movie, great effects, some terrific characters (the Witch, the Lion, Mr. Tumnus), overall good BUT...

The little tea-sipping girl's acting annoyed the hell out of me: the same little grin whether she's happy, in danger or angry, yuck.

The little traitor -who can't act, either- got away with nothing but a reprimand, and even became King.

Girls were soooooo girly they could do nothing to save the lion, lest they think they're tomboys.

Er.....against THAT army?


That's just silly.


It was funny...in the book, Lewis has Aslan comment quite often about how ugly battle is when women have to fight....and he DOESN'T say that in the film, but the boy stuff is there nonetheless.

But the thing is set in WW II England, already...it was pretty egalitarian for its time.


I noted that lots of female centaurs fought.



The christian stuff is there, but not in everything...Lewis as a well educated Englishman of his time, has lots of lovely pagan lore in there as well..like the very derandified fauns (educated folk would have been worried about far mor eimmediately dreadful fates for Lucy than being betrayed to the white witch!)


I did find Lucy a bit annoying...but poor old Edmund was dealt a difficult hand...being surly and 'orrid for no good reason.

I have watched the movie. I read the books when i was little and the movie was almost nothing like the books. In the movie they left out a couple of important things.

I've been wondering how many movies they'll spin this series out to. There were 7 books, but I guess that doesn't necessarily mean that there will be an equal amount of films.

Although, the first has done well.

Ya the first film did do well. It is because of all the nice special effects that were in it.

For sure that has a lot to do with it, but I thought the story was quite palatable, even for an adult.

Nowadays, special effects is in many movies, but if it doesn't have a decent plot line /story, it'll fall flat on its face in no time.

Ya true. I was surprised that it kept me interested in it.

I saw Nania. It was awesome. I haven't read the book either.

I didn't like the film, but I can't say it's bad.

I just watched the movie a couple of hours ago and it's fantastic!

I haven't read the books yet but I had watched all the movies in the old BBC version of Narnia, when i was 9 and i remembered bits of the movie.
The animation was great and all the animals seemed so real..! The whole audience was laughing in all those funny parts. It was truly an amazing movie.

And i thought the little girl was very cute and she acted really well.

A great film, well done indeed!

I thought it was okay, but just okay.

totally not my kind of movie...and I love it.

Good fantacy Flick... Liked more than Harry Potter Goblet....

I just watched it yesterday (on DVD) with my 5-year-old daughter -- wow! I was very impressed. SHE was absolutely blown away. The expression on her face when Lucy was crowned was so great -- obviously heavy identification going on.

I've always liked Tilda Swinton and I thought she was magnificent in this, gorgeous and terrifying and very, very evil. She had all of these tiny throwaway expressions -- a split-second rapacious grin before erasing it to say something coldly and dispassionately.

Very impressed with Mr. Tumnus, who I remembered as older, but overall tone was good.

I read all of the books two-three times each as a kid which made the viewing experience interesting -- I read them so long ago that they're there but details are lacking, but things on the screen seemed deeply familiar, mind-pictures made real.

The battle scene was a stunner, technically amazing.

Aslan was a little lacking, to me. He showed up so late, and just kinda pranced around being saintly -- in the books I remember (though maybe incorrectly) him being more of a personality, more character development.

Curious about where things will go from here, too. Doesn't Susan get cast out, or die, or something? Something about losing her innocence, I can't remember.