Lion Witch etc

[Tommy Martyn]

These books featured heavily in my upbringing. I loved them. It really would take too long to explain how this book and the rest of the series changed my life for the better. I have a very, very vivid feel for Peter, Edmund, Susan and Lucy. I know a lot more about C.S.Lewis these days (more than I want to bore you with) still, I couldn't wait to see how the movie measured up. Measured up to the books themselves and my thirty odd year old impressions of them.

I took Henry (aged five ) with me as cover. It has long been a gripe of mine that a number of children's movies have half an eye on the adults. (worst culprit: The invincibles. A movie for the Ayn Rand set dressed up as kids fayre)

The stakes were high. If you didn't already know about C.S Lewis and his stance on religion (I'm too tired to tell you here) every single film review would let you know in short order. Although I don't share his faith, there is so much about Lewis I love. (One line from the Screwtape Letters haunts me to this day) What I liked about the movie was that it was so obviously for children. Motives and actions were left unambiguous and at the same time unexplained. (England my England my England) For all the huffing and puffing of my fellow atheists this was not a movie you could put next to a Mel Gibson effort.

I rarely see "grown up" movies in a cinema but I couldn't speak too highly of the scenes when Mr Tummnus (The Fawn) meets Lucy for the first time. I'm sure you all have better examples of good acting. Still it transcended it's genre. That's all you can ask. And more than Star Wars ever did.

[Sloth]

Thanks for that.