Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe

Initial Thoughts

            Who doesn't know the famous first Narnia movie? based off of the best selling book franchise of the same name, which was originally written by C.S. Louis. When this movie first came out, everyone was dying to see it, and you can tell that because the movie made a whopping _______ dollars in the first week of it being in theaters.

            But regardless of its famous background, is the movie actually good? Well lets grab our popcorn and find out!

Story 25 out of 25

            Now, in case you weren't aware before, C.S. Louis was a Christian man, and the storyline all throughout the Narnia franchise is based off of and has many, many morals that are proclaimed and taught in the bible. This is actually very genius, Louis took widely spread historical religious events, and changed the characters, and went into great detail of ideas taught in the bible, and transferred those ideas into his fictional world. By doing this he taught people his beliefs without them even knowing it. Because of this and with the brilliant writing and creation of his world, we get one brilliant, and realistic storyline that will keep everyone watching on the edge of their seats, or crying with the characters.

Characters 25 out of 25

            The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe's 4 main characters are Susan, Lucy, Peter and Edmond, there are other main characters, occupying them, but still many of the major plot devices focus around the four children.

            Seeing how the majority of the film is focused on the four children, lets start with them. These four characters where written perfectly and realistically, just by the way they interact with each other you are able to relate to at least one of them, or possibly all of them if you also have three other siblings or more. these characters are realistic because each sibling's personality traits are similar as to what they would be in real life, for example Lucy, being the youngest, is mischievous and sometimes even a little sassy. but when she is in real danger, she will scream and or run away towards peter or Edmond. this is so realistic because the youngest in the family generally will be able to get away with more there for becomes more sassy and risk taking, however since they are a little spoiled, and rarely are in physical danger whenever that occurs, they will scream or cower in fear. 

            That is just one example of one major character in the movie, and every other sibling acts and feels like a real person, just like Lucy. Furthermore these personality traits not only happen when they are interacting with one another, but when they interacting with other characters within the film, such as Mr. Thomas.

           

            Another great aspect of the characters is that every character get exactly the right amount of screen time, so the viewer can see the fantastic writing and acting of the character. in conclusion, every single character within narnia feels so real, I have to keep reminding myself that its just a movie, everything regarding the characters was done with absolute perfection.

Battle Scenes 20 out of 25

            Now, although the battle scenes were done extremely well, they weren't as good as they could have been (Many of the points made in this section will be regarding the final battle). The final battle had a good opening transition from the army camp and peter talking about Aslan's death, into the actual battlefield, however I did not feel it to necessary that the film had to cut to another scene just after the battle started, to me, it feels like every time they cut away from the battle, it just drops all of the suspense and epicenes that they were building up in the scene. and so when the battle resumes, they need to start that suspense build up all over again.

            Secondly, when the two armies are first charging at one another, I felt that the soundtrack, while it did sound fantastic, it seemed a little out of context to me, I felt that it seemed a little to majestic. I would have really liked it if when they where first charging at one another they played a soundtrack of the sound of all the hooves thundering, and a massive overwhelming epic orchestra track over top of that.

            And finally, I felt that the final battle between peter and the white witch could have been a lot better. now don't get me wrong, its still really well put together, however again it lacked the overwhelming epic music, the up close and personal camera shots, and other aspects of a duel that would have been awesome to see.

            These are the reasons why I think that the lord of the rings battle scenes are a little bit more well done, because they fix many of the listed problems.

Soundtrack/Writing/Acting Quality 25 out of 25

            The soundtrack was outstanding, allot of hard work and time was put into creating this history making beautiful peace of art work. if I where to say one thing about it, it would be that they recycled the some tracks a little two much, but that's just a little selfish on my part.

            The writing was phenomenal, the movie is very close to the book from what I have heard, as I have not read the book in quite some time. The writing of the characters was perfect, the writing of almost every scene was perfect, and almost every plot point was well thought out and made logical sense. there where a few areas of some scenes that didn't make sense , but the occasions where few and I doubt the everyday audience member would even notice.                

           

            And finally the Acting Quality. I can safely say that even the extras did a marvelous job in this movie, not to say anything of the main characters. it is very clear that every actor involved was trained very well, and took their cues from the director and others very well. they added so many great personality creating things to each one of their characters, including facial expressions, yelling, stuttering, and many other great little things that added so much to their character.

Final Verdict

95/100

LEGENDARY

This movie is a master piece that should be hung on the wall, with very realistic characters, an absolutely fabulous storyline, fantastic writing for the majority of the plot devices and scenes, and a fantastically written and fleshed out world for all of these things to take place in, if you haven't seen this movie yet, go out right now, and purchase it, no matter what price you get it at, it is worth every single penny!!