Since I never read the Narnia series, I came into The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe without preconceptions - unless you count the gigabytes of online commentary about the spiritual in-and-outs of the original and the movie version.
As a disinterested observer, then: A good movie. I could see the compression required to bring the book down to a 2-hour movie. Nice effects and art direction, especially the lovely winter landscapes. The children's characters are well acted and nicely delineated.
But I want to save all of my love for Tilda Swinton as the White Witch. We loved Nicole Kidman's Mrs. Coulter in The Golden Compass, but surely Tilda Swindon surpasses even this performance for glamorous, enticing evil. We first saw Swinton in Orlando, so we feel she is natural in supernatural roles. Her beauty is otherwordly, and significantly sinister. I, for one, am in full sympathy with Peter, who sided with the Witch against the Lion.
In conclusion, kudos to James McAvoy from Wanted as Mr. Tumnus, a faun. Well done, sir.
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I've seen Tilda Swinton in "Michael Clayton," Benjamin Button," "Broken Flowers," and probably some others. One of my favorites. Thanks to you, I now want to see this movie.
Actually it was Edmund, the 3rd Pevensey, who sided with the Witch. Peter and Susan were the prissy older siblings, and were less active in the full Narnia cycle than Edmund and Lucy.
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