Aside from a few minor changes and a couple of newly written action scenes (because it's Hollywood and they can't help themselves), the WMG + Disney version of C.S. Lewis' 1950 children's novel is much better than I expected it to be. The first third is excellent, including each of the young actors - Lucy (Georgie Henley) in particular, who embodies the sense of wonder that a child should feel after finding another world in the back of a wardrobe.
Things only really begin to slide when the talking CGI animals appear. The lion Aslan should have a splendour that eclipses all else, but his being rendered in boring CGI (most of the time) means that he might as well not be there at all; the unnecessary use of such across the board is a stain on what I feel is otherwise the best filmed version of the novel to date.
3½ small favours out of 5
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