"The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe"

Date&time: 14/02, 21:00
Place: Biocity
With: Ole, Britta, Hanne & Mads

Yet again, a film for which I have read the book - actually, all of the books - just last fall, but I'm sort of getting used to wieving a film missing half the original action. Besides, to me, half the fun is watching the characters from the book come alive - do they look and act like I imagined them? I noticed the children in Narnia looking very English, which I guess was good :) But the main thing were the creatures and the talking animals, which were brilliant. I especially liked the beaver speaking Cockney English and, of course, Aslan.

I WILL have to comment on the "book to film"-issue. The film was 2hr12mins, and still, the story was cut down to its very basics. Generally, I think it worked well, but I was a bit surprised, when the children - in particular Edward and Peter - go from innocent kids to great warriors in about 30 seconds. I think they go through quite a development in that stage that you totally miss out on...

But, in an effort not to turn this into a comparison that will undoubtedly end of giving the book the majority of the praise, I'm just gonna go ahead and rate it "yeah, it was okay"! :D I had expected a bit more, I guess, because of the world that I know from the books, and I guess that if you haven't already read the Narnia Chronicles, this will just be a kid's movie to you.