etherkiss

This movie was painful and outlandish, at best.

Greer Garson is engaged to Lew Ayres and meets his best friend, Robert Taylor. Robert Taylor immediately (and blatantly) starts romancing Greer RIGHT IN FRONT OF LEW when they are supposed to be best friends. Greer keeps putting herself alone with Robert, and (duh) they end up together to the dismay of the ever tolerant Lew (Greer also shows no signs of remorse at cheating on her fiancée).

The WORST part was when Robert and Greer elope...then, when a surprised and dismayed Lew shows up, Greer has the NERVE to chastize him for being angry.

She is probably the most despicable of the three because of her patronizing and holier-than-thou attitude...despite all of the rotten things she does to the man she supposedly once loved. Robert is next. I, for one, would never throw Lew over for this jerk. At least they deserve each other.

Lew Ayres is the only good part of this movie, even though you want him to slap the other two and he never does.

Do NOT see this movie...unless you want to be frustrated and annoyed...

As a movie it is a good. As a representation of the book it is mediocre. Most of the wonderful words and dialogue from the books are dumbed down in the movie. The beavers, wolves, and Ginarrbrik are especially awful (corny dialogue, badly animated, etc). It seemed like the people who made the movie were not huge fans of the book (they may have liked it, but you could tell that they did not love it).

Visually it was pretty nice (besides some of the animations), but basically, whoever wrote the script needs to be replaced before the next movie comes out. C.S Lewis would have never written some of the crap the actors were made to say in the movie.

Certain small details I enjoyed (never closing the wardrobe door, as is stressed several times in the book...the white stag...etc). The final battle was well done, but the fight between Peter and Maugrim was very anticlimactic. It was well cast...the children and the witch were very well done...though I thought the professor could have been better (he was a bit too goofy).

It definitely could have been better...hopefully in the next one they will get someone who can better interpret the book to a screenplay and ditch the corny dialogue...especially when the original dialogue from the book is so wonderful and strong! The average viewer will most probably like it. Lovers of the book, however, may find some bits lacking...

The original is sooooooooo much better! The jokes were better, the kids were better actors, Walter Mauthau is a much better Buttermaker...Billy Bob just made the role sleazy and unsympathetic. It was much more shocking back in the 70's also...now the humor just seems crass and sleazy. All the magic from the first one was absent in this one. It seems like they were trying way too hard to copy the original and somehow got lost, ending up with a dud of a movie. Why mess with a good movie anyway? It's like trying to remake Grease...you just can't do it. Just an overall BAD remake.

1/10.

Skip this one; see the original instead.