Narnia

Narnia suffers from competing interests, but it remains a very good movie | Andrew Coffin

Ten months after director Andrew Adamson told a small audience of pastors and educators on the Disney studio lot in Burbank, "I want to be very faithful to the book," the burning questions for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (rated PG for battle sequences and frightening moments) moviegoers are these: Was Mr. Adamson faithful to his venerable source? And, equally important, has he made a good movie?

The answer to the second question is an enthusiastic, "Yes!" The answer to the first question is a more complicated, "Sort of."

A brief recap of the story: The young Pevensie siblings are packed off to a country estate while London suffers under the German Blitz during World War II. There, the bored kids—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy (eldest to youngest)—discover a mysterious wardrobe in the old dusty manor home that leads them all to a land called Narnia.

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December 10, 2005, Vol. 20, No. 48

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