I saw this in 1979.


I plan on watching it with my daughter sometime soon. IMO, this version stays closest to the books.

Or maybe it's nostalgia bias? I dunno.

+++ Jason

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It's definitely stood the test of time, to be s faithful and effective adaptation. I personally like it better than the recent efforts. It's a timeless classic.

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Stood? You mean 'withstood'?

I don't know about 'test of time', because movies, TV shows and such never change, they're just as good as they ever was, for all eternity, as they do not change.

However, I don't know about this cartoon, the animation and the characters look hideous and exaggerated, strange and nothing about this makes any sense. 'Son of Adam, daughter of Eve' is used over and over agian, although it makes no sense (as I already proved in another post).

Also, isn't it a bit blasphemous to claim that Aslan is Jesus, when The Oiled One is supposed to be the LAMB, and Lion is basically the enemy? (Though that's probably from astrological origin, having been incarnated in the spring, and thus being Aries).

What kind of sense does it make anyway to make a protagonist a predator animal (the problem when you start antropomorphizing animals anyway)? A real Lion would just devour the people and not 'talk wisdom' to them.

(Not to even touch the fact that the Oiled One should be glowing because of being such a high-level entity, and his mission here was to tell us how to change this planet to a paradise; so his mission in Narnia is .. what, exactly? He doesn't speak similar wisdom at all)

What does this 'sacred' carnivore animal eat, just by the way? Hmm?

Anyway, the story is silly, the religious overtones are nauseating, the whole thing is a big, nonsensical mess.

But sure, it has "definitely stood the test of time".

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I’d never show this to a young child. I saw it as a kid and it was quite disturbing. Stayed with me a while.

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It's still rocking my boat and surpass the recent movies without a doubt.

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