More Narnia DVD Reviews are starting to spring up all over the internet. Here’s a sampling of reviews from a few of those places. The reviews of the DVD are very positive. It’s a great DVD set and well worth your time and money.
The Trades: Few feature films get such a treatment, either in the quality of the film itself or the abundance of bonus features that get added to the DVD release. “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” easily gets my vote for best DVD feature release for 2006. [The Trades]
DVDTown: J.R.R. Tolkien never liked his friend Lewis’s “Narnia” books and told him so. Tolkien did not think it was appropriate for Lewis to throw around mythological creatures so willy-nilly as he did. But Lewis’s books caught on sooner than Tolkien’s, and today the two fantasy series are probably equally well respected, albeit probably by different age groups. Yes, Tolkien is more sophisticated and more mature, but Lewis has the advantage of innocence and simplicity. [DVDTown]
Moriarty’s DVD Shelf: I’ll have a full review of this one up at the blog later today, but I’ll say this… no matter what you think of the film, it’s a handsomely-produced special edition, and it should make fans very, very happy.(From his column on AICN.)
Somehow, my criticisms of this film in my original review have turned into me supposedly hating it. I don’t, though. I just thought it struck me as a surface version of the story, and in many ways, it suffers from being too faithful to a book that is rather slight considering its supposedly epic scope. [Moriarty’s DVD Shelf]
IGN: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is one of those sets in which the features are more fun than the movie itself. While the movie is a bit confused with itself, the rest of this set is just top-shelf. The video is stunning, the audio is amazing, and the features cover almost every aspect of the movie you could imagine. Despite my feelings on the movie, I really do recommend the set. If you just casually liked the film, or you have a kid whose just getting into the books, this is a sure bet. [IGN]
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