Narnia

SPOILER ALERT!!!! IF YOU HAVEN'T YET SEEN NARNIA/READ THE BOOK AND ALREADY KNOW THE ENDING FOR THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE, STOP READING NOW!!!! Oh, OK, you can read my post, but don't blame me if I spoil something for you (as I did warn you) after you see the movie/read the book.
OK folks, as the title says I saw Narnia in theaters last night. Boy what a rush! The acting wasn't quite as good as the acting in Lord of the Rings, but it blows what I have seen of the Harry Potter series away on the first try. They use a lot of CGI for the animals (which is understandable) but unlike in the new Star Wars movies it actually looks believable. The witch is seductively evil, the battle scene is well done, and Aslan just simply rocks the house. One of the things I liked the most was they put the children moving to the Professor's house in context. C. S. Lewis says in the book that they were moving to escape the bombings in WW II, but they actually show the bombings in the first scene of the movie. In addition, they didn't cut out the underlying morality Lewis so carefully crafted into the books, something they could have done to save time but would have made the movie almost pointless. Anyway, I greatly enjoyed this film and can't wait until they come out with whichever one they are going to do next. Given I am doing a Narnia review, this quote will come from Lewis:
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." - C. S. Lewis
Be well, my friends, and when you get the chance see this movie!