Narnia – Worst Film of the Year January 2, 2006
Posted by Martin in : Thailand , trackbackHow the hell did Narnia get so many great reviews on IMDB? This was the second movie I’ve ever walked out of and I was upset with myself for wasting 1/12 of my new year with it.
It took no more than 5 minutes before I could feel my brain shrinking, and about double that time before I had to stifle my yawns. It was a very long time ago since I read the book, and presumed that I was going to enjoy this but I can’t begin to communicate how bad it was. Two hours into the movie the only reason I was still sitting was because the seat was so comfortable and I’d assumed things couldn’t get any worse in the plot.
Why did Santa Claus make a cameo, merely to give the characters essential christmas presents? Was that in the book?
How could the children act so badly? Their complete blank-facedness surely took them more effort that to actually bother acting.
In this day and age, is it really appropriate to show a tiny young girl willingly accepting an invitation from a half naked horse-man to go to his place for a cup of tea? Likewise, the seduction of the Turkish-delight obsessed Edmund by the White Witch was equally inappropriate.
All the fast bits in the movie went too fast. “Oh I’ve found a land in the back of the cupboard, wow” and all the slow bits worked like water torture.
Please save yourself a lot of frustrations, and stay well away from this piece of crap!
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Too late, I already caught it.
Santa was in the book, I’m afraid – at least, as far as I can remember.
Most of the criticism has been about the fact that the whole tale is a thinly-veiled Christian allegory. To be honest, I didn’t even notice, in between spotting the horrendously-done FX shots and tragically wooden acting – from the adults as well as the kids.
On reflection, it probably was the worst film of the year – Doom comes in a close second.