The Lion, The Witch and The Wardobe
 

If anyone has read the C.S. Lewis' Narnia series then this movie is definitely a must see. I thought it was fantastic and followed the book amazingly well.

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Dave

:tresbon: Good to know, I have the whole series and just finished my umpteenth re-reading!

I took my 7yr old daughter to see this on Saturday. We had a great time and loved the movie. Followed the book very well and was easy for her to follow along. :thmbsp:

john

I was thinking of taking my 4.5 year old to a matinee on our Christmas break. Would it be appropriate for someone so young?

I seen lots of kids there who were younger than my daughter (7). There are some scary looking creatures but they don't get very much screen time.

john

My son (15yrs old) and I saw it yesterday and we both hated it. It is definetely a movie for young children. They make it look like it might be a LOTR type adventure in the previews and it's more like Sesame St. Great kids movie I guess. As someone who never read the books I felt like it was the 2nd movie or something? Seems like I didn't know why things were happening. What happened to give the witch 100yrs of dominion? Aslan killed her in like 2 seconds flat, why did he wait 100yrs to do it? Just seemed like there was info missing to me and since I never read the books (tried as a teenager but didn't take to them) I just didn't know.

Good to know since the book is one of things my wife wanted and is getting for Christmas. :thmbsp:

Army... it took me about five minutes to even notice that you had posted words along with that avatar! :thmbsp:

Scott

Noth'in better than the holidays at Hef's :D

I'm wondering exactly the same thing. Exactly!

Perfect for little kids.

I am really glad you pointed that out. When I first saw the trailer I was blown away! I definitely thought it was going to be another mega-trilogy in the vein of LOTR.

I thought the movie followed the book pretty closely,and as a movie for younger children its very good,IMO,but after the Ring trilogy,I was a little disapointed in it.The big battle at the end had its moments,but cant hold a candle to the battle of Helms Deep in the Two Towers(but in all fairness,are there many battles in ANY movie that can?)or any number of battles in the Ring series.
The film seemed a little chintzy to me,that it lacked the scope of a real epic.As far as taking small children,if I had seen those wolves when I was a little kid,I would have been scared to death,but then again,I had to hide in my mom's coat when I was 5 when I went on the Pirates of the Carribean at Disneyland :D
Jimmy

Decent movie, followed the book fairly well. The additional scenes to set the stage in the beginning of the movie were welcome.

I took my six year old, and she enjoyed it but told me not to buy the DVD because it was "too scary"; take that with a grain of salt, though, because she jumps at shadows.

There's lots of battling, but very, very little blood.

LOL - it was not LOTR - Of course it is not!! It is not supposed to be. If they would have done it LOTR-style, then they would not have been faithful to the book. The book makes out the fight scenes like Crusader type of battles and that is that they did.

I was very happy that they didn't 'Hollywoodize' this film!!

I thought it was excellent and plan to buy when it comes out on DVD!!!

Read the book before you judge the movie!!!

Dave