the late installment of child lit turn movie be the weak . the green screen use be laughable represent for example and when stand on a hilltop and next to an animal whose fur be blow in the wind and we see a too close shot of the child and whose improperly lit hair be stand perfectly still . on a hilltop . the cg background be not detailed and very plain ( hill and tree and no movement ) . also and these child could not act and i hate to say it . emotion and no . excitement and no . hold a sword like a human be and no . the pacing be somehow both too slow and too fast . there be plenty of dead air moment that fail to create suspense ( people in my theater be snore and get up a lot and get restless ) and and slow mo of poorly cg would battle and but the storyline development ( or total lack thereof ) be skip over and push ahead and and seem to take a back seat to the action ( a be the formula for modern cd heavy kid movie ) . the gore in the animal cruelty of sacrifice the lion in a strangely pagan esquire midnight ritual ( i somehow do not picture it like that a a kid read the book ) be beyond a pg depiction and ( despite the cut away for the stab and and lack of blood anywhere ) and gratuitous and smacking of the passion of the christ . but i guess that exactly what they be go for . i guess as long a a movie doesn not show blood and body part and or swear word and it doesn not go over pg and despite graphic depiction of pagan sacrifice and animal abuse and creepy cyclops and other humanoid and large scale warfare and stabbings and beating and and such . i be no prude and it be a child book but read topic be less intense than see them graphically depict on a big screen and enough for maybe a 13. the storyline be so very simple find wonderland and set off human alarm and savior sacrifice himself for you and resurrects and win war against evil christmas hat witch . 4 step . 3 hour to tell . it just isn not as complex a lotr or even the good harry potter . that why the pacing felt so slow . have the character be round out ( one can interpret a book when make it into a movie and but nobody tell disney this ) it might have be well . if judas and i mean edmund and have be explore why be he so impudent . do he really have fantasy of be king . do he learn a lesson and or just go on or off from traitor to witch fighter . any of these could have be explore instead of the dead air treatment i watch .