Well, they sure enjoyed it! They loved the action, and each had their favourite character.

But I didn’t find enough depth to hold my interest. I found myself wondering about how the special effects had been achieved. Some of them are most impressive – the portrayal of emotions on the face of Aslan the Lion is truly amazing.

A lot of work must have been put into the mythical creatures, but to not much avail. A graphically-generated half-horse half-human isn’t much use if the plot doesn’t develop a genuine role (or at least purpose) for it.

The battle scenes, too, were impressively filmed but rather tedious to watch after a while.

In the San Francisco Chronicle, Mark Morford wrote that “Adults just don’t get ‘Narnia’ chronicles”, and I think he’s right.

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Trivia: there were more names listed on the credits than I can remember for any other movie I’ve seen. And shooting locations in so many countries (with even separate crews for New Zealand North and South Islands).