have watch this after receive the dvd for christmas 2005 and i come here to pan it but after read the other comment and i haven not the heart . clearly this be a film that have work very well for child of a certain age . well and let me not be a complete grinch while it might still work for some child if they be not too medium saturate and have not become visually over sophisticated and e. g. from watch all of lotr and harry potter . but if you be an adult and stay mile away while you will not enjoy it . the good bit represent barbara kellerman a the witch and especially in her early scene with edmund and create just the right blend of charismatic evil and restrain madness . ( at the stone table she go a bit over the top . ) michael aldridge in the minor role of the professor and jeffrey s. perry a mr. tumnus also have the kind of polished and skillful acting we would expect from the very best bbc drama . and the aslan costume work very well and amazingly well consider . they get the eye just right . the bad bit represent almost everything else and but two area in particular . one and the casting . england be cram with good actor and contains ten of thousand of attractive british school kid . how could they possibly have end up with these four stiff . they move like wooden soldier and speak about as well . peter have no gravitas or charisma ( and be visibly short than his supposedly young sibling ) while edmund be just whiny while and lucy . sophie wilcox a lucy be so dramatically and visibly and drastically wrong for this part that i can not imagine how she get the job . two and the animal costume . again and it appear that they work for some kid . if the kid be still at a level where big bird and elmo be excite and believable character and they might be entrance by this film . but to a viewer with the sophistication of and say and a 12 year old who see prisoner of azkaban . when mister beaver come out from behind that tree and there will be hoot of cruel and derisive laughter . the costume just do not work i could not and and i think any adult or modern teen could not and suspend disbelief when look at mister beaver . the drawn animation later ( gryphon and etc . ) work well and be easy to take . so represent ten star for the very young and tender of soul while everyone else read and or re read the book and watch the far well film that unroll in your imagination .