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Oh, itвЂ™s earnest enough, sure, but thereвЂ™s a stiffness, a distance between script and screen that undercuts the simplistic story beats and makes them harder to invest in that they should be. Problematically, it fails to develop any real thematic weight despite the best intent of all involved, thwarting the filmвЂ™s aggressively action-oriented style to really matter where it counts. The paucity of literary depth to LewisвЂ™ original book, which is really quite thin on the ground in terms of defining characters beyond Edmund, Peter and Lucy, forced the screenwriters вЂ“ Ann Peacock, Adamson, and eventual Avengers Infinity War scribes Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely вЂ“ to flesh out these well-known roles with a little more depth than their genesis previously gave us. AdamsonвЂ™s first live-action film, The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe is opulent, big-budget and utterly confused as to whatever point itвЂ™s trying to make. The story opens with a fractured family, weaves in a sense of isolation, finding oneвЂ™s path and angry betrayal, before climaxing with a muddled, widescreen fantasy battle in the New Zealand landscapes upon which original Shrek director Andrew Adamson placed his cameras. The film flounders with its central themes. With all this positivity going for it, how do I struggle to find much good to say about it? The film raked in a whopping three quarters of a billion dollars, garnered positive critical acclaim and swept to Oscar glory snagging the Best Makeup category for the 2005 calendar year. Although the other six books arguably wrap around Wardrobe in terms of chronology, DisneyвЂ™s decision to commence with the most famous of all LewisвЂ™ Narnia texts proved salient indeed. The Narnia books, originally published in the 1950вЂ™s, have previously been adapted on both television, radio and stage, with Disney staking their claim as the first to transport audiences to the fantasy world on the big screen, kicking off with the first published novel, The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe as their opening salvo. You have to wonder how many people would be aware that CS Lewis was a converted christian, and as such devoted a lot of time in his writings to developing themes of faith and iconography that allegories biblical teachings? Probably not as many as one suspects. The four children discover that they are the rightful heirs to the four thrones of Narnia, and so gather an army to battle the forces of the White Witch to save the land. Peter (William Moseley), Susan (Anna Popplewell), the malcontent Edmund (Skylar Keynes) and the sweet and innocent youngest, Lucy (George Henley) meet all manner of creatures in Narnia, including a fawn, Mr Tumnus (James McAvoy), Father Christmas (James Cosmo), a pair of friendly beavers (Ray Winstone and Dawn French), as well as the great lion who created the world, Aslan (Liam Neeson) and The White Witch (Tilda Swinton), who wishes to enslave it by turning its inhabitants to stone. Whilst at the estate of Professor Kirke (Jim Broadbent), the found youngsters accidentally stumble into a mysterious wardrobe, a wardrobe which functions as a portal to the astonishing world of Narnia. The four young Pevensie children are sent to stay in the country whilst London is being bombed during the Blitz, during World War II.

WhatвЂ™s troubling to me is that a film with so much attention put into it can feel so hollow and empty. The first instalment of the big-budget Narnia franchise, the clumsily titled The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe, lifts much of LewisвЂ™ original text line for line, expands the relative sparse material and ratchets up the intended awe by lavishing incredible effects and really expensive production design at the classic story.

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Disney ventured into the territory of CS LewisвЂ™ classic childrenвЂ™s series involving the mysterious land of Narnia, based on the writerвЂ™s books and the fact that he was a contemporary of JRR Tolkien himself.

With the literary success of both TolkienвЂ™s Lord of The Rings and JK RowlingвЂ™s Harry Potter both making juggernaut cinematic franchises at the dawn of the new millennium, Hollywood studios quickly cast their eyes towards other classic works of fiction to see which, if any, might make blockbuster coin at the box-office.

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Synopsis:В Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion. Principal Cast : William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley, Liam Neeson, Tilda Swinton, James McAvoy, Ray Winstone, Dawn French, Kiran Shah, Jim Broadbent, Elizabeth Hawthorne, James Cosmo, Michael Madsen, Patrick Kake, Shane Rangi, Rupert Everett.