The world of Narnia has been released to the big screen. Sufficiently faithful to the praised book, if in a little more epic manner, the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a very good fantasy flick.
In another sense, it's just as spectacular and magical but not as emotionally moving as Lord of the Rings. Rather, the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a great fantasy-flick for families, because it's very entertaining and magical with great special effects.
It's based off of the best-selling book by C.S Lewis, the first published but second in chronological order, edition of the series. I remember reading the book before watching the movie and being enthralled by it all the way through. Therefore, I actually liked the movie almost as much as the book.
Due to the air raids on Britain during World War II, the Pevensie kids, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy and are sent out to the countryside to live in the estate of a wealthy professor. Lucy finds the way into Narnia during a game of hide and seek via a magical wardrobe. Through a few twists, the other kids get caught up in it, and in a war between the evil White Witch who has enslaved Narnia under her winter spell, and the powerful lion Aslan, who leads a rebellion to free Narnia and to place the kids in power.
Lucy is one of the central characters. She’s the youngest of the kids, but also the one who gets them to Narnia in the first place. Edmund is the second youngest, and he’s the one with the dark side who at first joins the Witch. Susan is the second eldest who has, or thinks she has, all of the smarts and brains. Peter is the oldest, the most responsible one, and whom Aslan trusts to lead the Narnia army.
Adamson takes the helm of director, and he pays clear, absolute homage to C.S Lewis, the author, all the way through. Even though Lewis didn’t want any of his books to turn into movies, for fear that they wouldn’t be faithful to the way he had written and imagined his books, the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe does not break off from what Lewis had written down.
Entertaining, magical, enchanting and satisfying, the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is an accurate and great adaptation of the best-selling novel that pays clear homage to Lewis.
****/5
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