Boy, this was bad.

Embarassingly bad.

I haven't read the books, or seen narnia movies, or stardust, I didn't know this was sorta famous or anything. If you are asking, I'm film and media student from Spain, so english literature is not really our thing. Also don't know about how it made in cinemas. For what I'm reading, this seems like a harry potter film, very expected, from famous author, or whatever. Yet I was surprised by the cast and vfx so I sit through the film.

I don't usually walk out of films, we've made some shorts, and not very proud of them, even. So I DO KNOW and DO STAND to watch subpar films without panic. But, man... This was unbearable. Before someone give me the "it was meant for kids" line, that's BS. I love labyrinth, dark crystal, hook, all pixar and even like most of harry potter (for what they are worth), and dozens of other movies alike.

The guy who made this didn't know anything abour framing, story-telling or editing. The only thing that would make this anyhow valuable are the vfx team, but they didn't save the movie.
The cast took their check and bought themselves a Ferrari. An this is not one of those parts that made Nicole Kidman new success era of this decade, but one of those "hey, I'm free today. Shall we make movie and get paid?"

I also don't usually go straight to IMDB to comment, only to check production facts, trivia, cast and such. I usually do after I watch every movie. Buy nobody seemed to comment on their liking of the FILM (no the book or story or anything else), I only read comments on a controversy I don't know/care.
I couldn't stand the girl, I didn't understand what was happening or why the girl talks or travels with an adult she just met - like 4 or 5 times in a row. If all this happened in that other world they were looking for, she had been murdered, raped and the murdered again. The scene with her sitting with the compass in the harbor, when an old man with white air and moustache just comes out of nowhere, it's just weird. I thought he was going to offer her candy and then show his penis.

This thing really seemed direct-to-dvd stuff, like literal translation to film of a half baked kid tale. I don't know the original material, right now I'm just amazed this movie is so expensive and has that full house cast. Yet it's no wonder why it made so poorly. I would be very angry if I had watched this on cinema. Whoever written this, and whoever directed it, needs to be shot down.