Sorry about that strange play on words. Actually, no, I’m not. But it was something that needed to be done. I had to figure out a good play on words to offset the mundane topic of a movie that has been heaveily hyped by the Disney people. Jessica and I broke out of the house yesterday and saw the film whilst my parents baby-sat. Wow. We got out of the house. It felt good.
The movie was great on a lot of levels, the least of which was the actual witch, who looked like the Borg queen in the Star Trek movies. Not because she was attached to all of the borg, but because the actresses looked similar to me. For some reason both acresses have a similarly machabre look, similarly have weird things sprouting from their heads, and both of them are women, which helps the whole thing go along a lot better than say comparing Aslan to Captain Picard!
The cast did a pretty good job of presenting the characters with an added exception of the the dward who was the sled driver for the queen. He reminded me too much of Deep Roy from the Willy Wonka movie last year wherein he was the Oompa-loompas. I kept waiting for the sled driver to sing a song about Edmond being a bad boy. He didn’t.
The special effects in the movie were top notch and while I knew some things were done with CGI there was in incredible amount of energy put into not making everything feel like CGI. I highly recommend seeing this movie for its technical merits alone. The battel scene could have been compared to some of the work in Lord of the Rings, but instead I’ll say this: they did a good job of mounting the tension and having things play quite differently from Lord of the Rings: kudos to those in charge of that decision.
This was a movie worth seeing and on a scale from 1 to 62.5 I would rank it a 52.369. It had some lame parts wherein Peter has no clue how to hold a sword, but there is also a really, really good portrayal of the animals, fictional or otherwise, as being quite real and touchable. The interplay between Earth and Narnia was fantastic and I must say that I’d love to play hide-n-seek in that house if I could. I would get so lost that no sons of Adam or daughters of Eve could find me in that big place.