Sunday, December 22, 2019

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe 2005

     Four young people from the same family leave their home town because of the bombings of WWII.  A woman and a professor take them into their home.  The children are playing a game of hide-and-seek and the youngest finds a wardrobe to hide in.  Lucy travels in time in the wardrobe and she finds a place named Narna.  She goes there twice and then the four children go together in time.  They battle wolves, meet talking animals, encounter an evil white witch and meet a magnificent lion named Aslan.  Will they continue to remain in Narna or will they return to their own time and place?
     There is a LOT of wonder, magic and discovery in Narnia!!  I could watch this film over and over.  Each time you see and notice something you didn’t before.  Great performances by Tilda Swinton, Liam Neeson and James McAvoy.  5* (I really liked this movie) 

      
143 min, Fantasy directed by Andrew Adamson with Tilda Swinton, Georgie Henley, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent, Kiran Shah, James Cosmo, Jusy McIntosh, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Patrick Kake, Shane Rangi, Brandon Cook, Cassie Cook.



Note:  Imdb 6.9 out of 10 with 347,556 reviews, Roger Ebert 3*, Rotten Tomatoes 76% critic 61% audience, Empire Online 3* out of 5*, Metacritic 75 out of 100 with 39 critics 5.9 out of 10 410 positive, 116 mixed, 214 negative), The Guardian 5* Peter Bradshaw, Plugged In 5* Tom Neven, Telegraph 4* out of 5* Sukhdev Sandhu, Amazon 4.7* out of 5* with 2349 ratings.

Special Note:  Filmed in Prague Czech Republic, Malopolskie and Dolnoslaskie Poland, Canterbury, Auckland and Otago New Zealand, Los Angeles California, Suffolk, Shropshire and London England, Glacier National Park Montana.  The wolves destroying the Beavers’ home were mostly real animals with one or two CGI ones added in.  Their tails had to be digitally re-added because they kept wagging!!   

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