8:00 PM, 13th February, 2006
Here is yet another big screen interpretation of a classic series of books, which many of us loved when we were younger and others are still discovering. This time it is C S Lewis' story about that curious wardrobe that has a secret passage leading to a New World - a world ruled by an evil witch, where it snows all the time, but if you wander far enough you'll meet a friendly talking lion in an area that is much warmer. I'm not the only one who after reading the books went to the nearest wardrobe to see if there was a secret passage to some mysterious world - am I?
The children from the Pevensie family (two boys and two girls) are moved from London to a vast country house during the Second World War, to be protected from Nazi air raids. Lucy, the youngest of the children, walks into a wardrobe to discover a new land. Soon after, her three siblings follow and are dragged into a different kind of war between a nasty cold witch and a talking lion named Aslan.
With the use of well-developed CGI, those who have read the books will find value in now seeing it displayed visually in the movie format.
Richard Rowe