THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE [2005] review

I actually had low expectations going into THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE, even though Japan didn’t get it until a good 3 months after it was released in the R.W. Even with those lowered expectations, I was still pretty disappointed. The whole world of Narnia didn’t feel fleshed out at all, characters were introduced with little to know history, characters did things they had no believable ability to be able to do, and in the end there were no consequences of the big battle, at all.

The movie really had me interested from the first frame all the way up until the first frame Aslan appeared on screen. Then it lost me. Liam Neeson was not a good choice as the voice of Aslan. I couldn’t place it to his voice at the time, so it annoyed me the whole time because it was so familiar. William Mosely (Peter) did a very poor job of acting also. My favorite character was Lucy, the little girl.

As mentioned before, the final battle held absolutely no weight because none of the other characters (centaur general, etc) were fleshed out. And exactly why were they fighting? What did the White Witch want exactly? Just eternal winter? How did the Professor know about Narnia? Why did the children stay in Narnia? They gave up on returning to their mother? Too many questions with no answers for me in this movie.

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