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The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion, The witch and The Wardrobe is something which I vaguely remember watching when I was little. There was a television series on every weekend but now all these years later I cannot remember what happened in the end so when I came across this DVD I decided to give it a watch. Hubby was very pleased with my film choice as well as he too watched this when he was little.
The film is set around 4 children, Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter who are evacuated during the blitz and end up living in a massive house which belongs to a Professor. To entertain themselves they decide to play hide and seek. It is Lucy who finds a massive wardrobe in one of the rooms and decides that it would be a good hiding place. Lucy goes into the wardrobe as is shocked when she finds herself in a magical kingdom where she meets Mr Tumnus who is a fawn.
Mr Tumnus invites Lucy to his house for tea and when there he send word to the White Witch that a human is in the land of Narnia. Mr Tumnus regrets doing this and helps Lucy to get back to the wardrobe and home again. Lucy makes it back through the wardrobe and tells her brothers
and sisters of the magical place of Narnia in the wardrobe but they look and find nothing so they don’t believe her.
Later that night Lucy goes back to the wardrobe and ends back up in Narnia but she is followed by Peter and he too gets to Narnia where he meets the White Witch and says he will help bring his brothers and sisters to her. Peter returns back to the house and denies being there when Lucy tells the others what happened.
It is only when all the children are running away from the housekeeper and decide to hide in the wardrobe they all end up in Narnia and discover that Mr Tumnus has been arrested by the White Witch for helping Lucy escape and Lucy decides that she wants to go and rescue him. The others are faced with a big decision of staying in Narnia or returning to their normal life. If they do stay in Narnia what will become of them and just how much will be needed of them and if they do go back through the wardrobe will they ever be able to get back to Narnia?
I really did enjoy this film even though it is really for children. I enjoyed the whole storyline and characters. I thought that the children actors were all great in their roles and worked very well together and had some good chemistry. There were a lot of other character which featured in the film in the land of Narnia which were also good and funny.
I particularly enjoyed the beavers and thought they added some humour to the story. I liked the fact that they were voiced by well known people, Dawn French and Ray Winstone as this gave them a sense of familiarity. I liked how some of the ordinary creatures of the forest would live in houses which would have normal furniture in so they lived more like human than animals. I thought this was lovely and added to the magic which goes on in Narnia.
The scenes in Narnia were amazing and there were some wonderful views. I did find that the backdrops at times looked very false and it was extremely noticeable that the children were in fact acting in front of a green screen with these added in later. After the first half of the film I did stop noticing them and forgot about this. There were lots of magical and mythical creatures which were wonderfully animated and looked great and indeed part of the film.
I particularly enjoyed the character of Aslan. I thought that the effects which were used t put him on screen were excellent. I enjoyed the voice which they gave to him and thought it suited him very well indeed. Liam Neeson was n fact the man behind the voice and hubby was pleased about this as he is Qui-Gon in Star Wars!
The music throughout the film was good and suitable for the places which it was used. I think that the music helped to add to the fell of the film and was able to let us know when danger was coming or something sad was about to happen.
Hubby was very pleased with this film as they had not tried to change it from the original and the settings and year were still the same. He said that if they would have tried to update it and make it a modern version then it would not have been the same and it would have lost its magic.
The DVD which we have does have some bonus material which includes:-
The Bloopers of Narnia Discover Narnia Fun Facts Director and kids Commentary Filmmakers Commentary
We did not watch the bonus features as we do not want to loose any of the magic of the film as the next film we plan to watch is the sequel to this one!
The running time of this film is 137 minutes which when I first looked seemed extremely long to me but I did not even notice this when watching as the film was always busy and the story moved at a great pace throughout. The certificate on this film is PG as it does contain mild threat, battle and fantasy violence. My 6 and 4 year old have just sat and watched quite a lot of this film and loved it and neither of them found it to be scary so I think that with adult supervision then children of all ages would like this.
I paid just under £5 for this DVD from Amazon which I feel is a great price and tonight I will definitely be watching the follow on!
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Honestly reviewed! Though i thought the actor who played peter was rubbish. Did you know that Edmunds voice was dubbed by the actors sister because his voice broke half way through filming!
RICHADA 05.04.2009 22:23
Oh the joy of youth! I wasn't so little when I enjoyed watching this! Richard.
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