Better Than Crabs

Okay, admittedly I’m a little late with this one as I saw the movie maybe two weeks ago now. Going in I honestly knew nothing about this movie. I never read the books and only saw one preview for it which I didn’t even remember until I saw one of the scenes in the movie which was featured in the movie. Basically all I knew about the movie was that there were going to be a lion, a witch and a wardrove — 87.54% because I’m smart and the remaining percentage because that was the subtitle of the movie.

After watching it I liked it. I was able to pick up on the characters and everything seemed to flow well etc (I can’t remember a lot of the movie right now though ;)). The talking animals were pretty cool and the beavers were awesome. Who doesn’t like a talking beaver? I’m not fully sure the movie should be viewed by young kids as there is a war in it but then again kids now are able to see worst things every day on TV etc.

Something else I didn’t know about the book/movie was that it is supposedly filled with a lot Christian allegory and looking back at the movie and references given etc I can see the argument. But while watching the movie and not knowing about this underlaying factor I wasn’t sitting there thinking the Lion Aslan is Jesus. I state this because I saw some shows on TV (can’t remember the names) which were saying that the movie shouldn’t be viewed because it’s forcing Christianity on people who don’t want it forced on them etc. The way I see it is if you don’t go into the movie with an already overanalyzed opinion nothing will be forced upon you. I also think children who the movie is marketed toward will not be sitting in the theatre saying ‘Hey look it’s Jesus the Lion” or other such things. Instead they’ll be thinking of how cool the lion is and how much they like this story — filled with Christianity or not. And I don’t think the movie is trying to bring people over to the religion either. Why can’t a movie just be a freaking movie now?

Some things I didn’t like about it however were some obvious “green screening”. It seems like they spent a lot of time trying to get the animals to look/act right with CGI that they forgot to make other elements of the film believable. A strong example of this is when the kids are crossing an ice bridge (I think that’s what it was) and the background is a dull/faded colour whereas everything in the foreground is more bright and stands out. It reminded me of older films where there were no digital effects and you can tell the obvious panted backdrop, maybe it was the look they were going for but with everything else in the movie you figure they would have at least made it look “better”.

Now switching a little bit I found this great
SNL Clip featuring a Chronicles of Narnia rap from following a link on Anita’s blog. It’s definitely worth checking out.

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