I saw this tonight for the first time and then decided to dig the thread out to see what others thought. Just praise heaped upon praise from almost all you guys for this dreadful film. So many things bothered me about this film i don't even know where to begin. Given that almost nothing happened for close to an hour its unforgivable that these kids were so underdeveloped beyond a paper thin allusion to sibling rivalry and that they miss their father. Narnia itself was full of characters yet had absolutely no character, a land so bland it made me long for a train ride to Finchley.
From the moment they stepped into Narnia it was abundantly clear that there was about as much chance of any of them getting genuinely hurt as a particularly tame pillow fight. This was compounded by giving one of the children a deus ex machina at the mid point that sucked any last remenants of drama from the picture. I fully expected it to be used to save one of the children, but when she then set about curing everyone else who got hurt during the battle...Wow, are then any consequences in this world at all? Aslan's speach to Peter about how there is a mystical divisive force that seperates right from wrong in all things (so he never has to think for himself about it). In todays world i think kids should be taught more than ever that the things they do matter and that they can't just trust that everything will work out by itself if they just truat to faith.
From the moment they stepped into Narnia it was abundantly clear that there was about as much chance of any of them getting genuinely hurt as a particularly tame pillow fight. This was compounded by giving one of the children a deus ex machina at the mid point that sucked any last remenants of drama from the picture. I fully expected it to be used to save one of the children, but when she then set about curing everyone else who got hurt during the battle...Wow, are then any consequences in this world at all? Aslan's speach to Peter about how there is a mystical divisive force that seperates right from wrong in all things (so he never has to think for himself about it). In todays world i think kids should be taught more than ever that the things they do matter and that they can't just trust that everything will work out by itself if they just truat to faith.
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