It verges on snotty condescension to call C.S. Lewis'
Narnia books
Lord of the Rings lite, especially given Lewis' long-standing and fraught relationship with fellow Oxford don J.R.R. Tolkien. But they are. The seven
Narnia books are less obsessively imagined than the
Ring trilogy, and their roots in familiar Western folk and fairy tales are obvious, if brightened with Lewis' own oh-so-English inventions: the fretful faun with his sensible scarf and umbrella, the nattering beavers whose homey banter conceals deep reserves of bristly stiff-upper-lip pluck. The loyalty commanded by
The Chronicles of Narnia isn't the devotion of whip-s...
Released:
2005
Rated:
PG
Length:
140 mins