whatchew talkin bout? Lamb? Not till Dawn Treader, man.
It's a grab bag of cool paganism (greekism, that is) wrapped in a fluffy blanket of furry christianity; what's not to love? Roll on Prince Caspian, where we should get lots more tree spirits, and Silenus and Bacchus and his crewe to boot, if they're going to be true to the original.
I loved it; I thought the early scenes leading up to the wardrobe moment were spot-on to create a feeling of reality - necesary because we're about to..., and the wardrobe-moment itself brought a tear to my eye. Maybe the white witch wasn't 7 feet tall with black hair, but she was Tilda Swinton, so what are you complaining about? Maybe the battle was a bit 'let's show off our CGI creatures and echo LOTR', but what the heck. The scriptwriter added a lot of humour, especially in the beavers (or brought out what was already there more explicitly, if we're being charitable).
It did sag in the middle, somehow. But the the lesson clearly is, be true to your sources. The middle was where they went off from the Text and made up some stuff.
Narnia
It's a grab bag of cool paganism (greekism, that is) wrapped in a fluffy blanket of furry christianity; what's not to love? Roll on Prince Caspian, where we should get lots more tree spirits, and Silenus and Bacchus and his crewe to boot, if they're going to be true to the original.
I loved it; I thought the early scenes leading up to the wardrobe moment were spot-on to create a feeling of reality - necesary because we're about to..., and the wardrobe-moment itself brought a tear to my eye. Maybe the white witch wasn't 7 feet tall with black hair, but she was Tilda Swinton, so what are you complaining about? Maybe the battle was a bit 'let's show off our CGI creatures and echo LOTR', but what the heck. The scriptwriter added a lot of humour, especially in the beavers (or brought out what was already there more explicitly, if we're being charitable).
It did sag in the middle, somehow. But the the lesson clearly is, be true to your sources. The middle was where they went off from the Text and made up some stuff.