Narnia!

Watched the movie. Like four kids enter this magical world where all sorts of freaky creatures talk and miraculous things happen. They fight the bad talking freaky creatures with swords and stuff, and the good talking freaky creatures, ruled by this pretty hot son-of-a-god type lion (who gets nailed by the witch queen - like Jesus, not like Ben Affleck). The said witch queen is killed, and all her bad talking freaky minions are killed too... and then the kids come back not knowing how the time has passed... when in fact, time hasn't passed at all.
Pretty much like the real world after a few shots of vodka - you feel you are talking to bad freaky creatures, and you have no clue how the time has passed.

Saw the movie alone. I mean there were other people in the theater - mostly filled with kids I didn't know, and couples getting a bit more than slightly scared after getting a first hand look of what was heading their way. Overexcited freaks were serious competition to the creatures on screen. They were dancing, howling, laughing, booing, and more often than not, crying, and basically behaving like the stalls crowd of a theatre with downpriced tickets to stay in the game despite competition from the multiplexes. The good thing is that at least you get to see the movie without heads peeking out of the seats and taking you out of the movie.

That said, the movie was not exactly worth getting engrossed in... talking freaks can be entertaining only upto a certain point - and talking freaks was the only thing the movie really had to offer.

Frankly, the movie was pretty boring. Will have to read the books, but I guess Narnia does not really stand out for many reasons:
1) There is no real point in the prophecy of the kids going into Narnia - the freaky talking lion kills the witch with one well placed bite, and the kids do not play a role in actually changing anything
2) You are left wondering about the permise of the universe and its laws
3) Takes terribly long to start off, all the build up is for the sake of a not too impressive fight sequence
4) You could imagine more action - much more than what was taking place on screen, the cheetahs, the rhinos, the centaurs, the minotaur like creatures and particularly the mermaids were all terribly underused.
5) Since they were putting in talking creatures not a normal part of other fantasy works, they could have done a bit more - I was imagining elephants, giants, serpants, crustaceans - so much variety in the animal kingdom that they didn't use

Was actually pretty boring, will have to read the books, but the movie was awash with occult, religious, and mythological parallels. Aslan's self-sacrifice was interesting, and the "he will always come and go" send off even more so. Amazing animation, but post LOTR and Star Wars, people would obviously expect something far more spectacular to work.

one big disapointment, but will have to read the books, because the movies almost always come off much worse than the books.