Ang Leon, Ang Mangkukulam, at ang... Lintek, Ano Tagalog Dun??

After some gunbang action last Sunday, the Shakk Boyz charged Rob Galleria to watch the much-awaited Narnia - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. We arrived a couple of hours early though for the 9pm screening so after grabbing our tickets, we lazed around Neutral Grounds to clown with the staffs. Pork had thrown in a canister of the "one true beverage" Coke and Pillows-for-everyone in the fray while Jacob went to look for kingdom come whence to unload his gut-stuffs.

As we're unanimously patrons of previews, we headed to the cinema come thirty minutes before the showing to have a rundown of the upcoming films. "Memoirs of Geisha" sure intrigues me. Kras ko si Zang Ziyi e.

On with the blurbs...

Narnia - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert!

In the movie, it was not explicitly explained where did the world of Narnia came from or how it came about but Professor Kirke - the manor owner - obviously implied that he knew about the weird thing going on with the dimension-crossing wardrobe. I wasn't able to read C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia novels but it might be that Professor Kirke, himself, had been on Narnia too on the other books. Other than that, the movie is seamless enough to avoid having any other "loose ends" that will leave the viewers baffled on how the heck things had happened. Of course, sans the fast forwarded continuum between the Pevensie siblings' childhood up to their maturity inside the world of Narnia before they finally went back to "reality" at the final part of the film. We can just simply imagine that between those times they stayed and ruled peacefully over the kingdom.

Anyway, the depiction of the world of Narnia in the film is sooooo awesome, especially the winter wasteland setting. It's so fit for the cold, ruthless presence the White Witch should project. From costumes to digital effects, the environment created for the movie is captivating not only for the kids but for the adults as well while maintaining simplicity and straightforwardness in the overall production... no overdoing of dazzling effects, no more-than-needed extravagance in the casts' attires, no exaggerated plot within subplots of a storyline. Everything shown in the production per se was just what was minimally required to make the story bring us to the fantasy world and give us a sense of how it is to be in the shoes of the Pevensie siblings.

I also liked how the director emphasized on the character development of the siblings - Susan the Cerebral, Peter the Judicious, Lucy the Empathetic, and Peter the Brash {waaah! typo! tatanga tanga kasi... it should be Edmund the Brash}. All throughout the movie, the protagonists have compellingly shown that they were doing things as to their nature (as more the obvious to Peter's {ulit pa sa typo hehe! idol talaga si Bob Ong... sinabi nang Edmund!} eventual betrayal because of perhaps his curiosity and/or greed to the throne of Narnia).

All in all, it's a great watch. In a scale of 10, I give it sampung sago... fantastic cinematography, great story, nice approach to the intended theme. I can't give a commentary regarding the book's adaptation for I haven't read any of the seven (?) Narnia novels but I have this feeling that Andrew Adamson (the director) made justice to the original work of C.S. Lewis.

*****

Happy Friday the 13th everyone!!! Quick, taya tayo sa lotto!!!

Ang Leon, Ang Mangkukulam, at ang... Lintek, Ano Tagalog Dun??

After some gunbang action last Sunday, the Shakk Boyz charged Rob Galleria to watch the much-awaited Narnia - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. We arrived a couple of hours early though for the 9pm screening so after grabbing our tickets, we lazed around Neutral Grounds to clown with the staffs. Pork had thrown in a canister of the "one true beverage" Coke and Pillows-for-everyone in the fray while Jacob went to look for kingdom come whence to unload his gut-stuffs.

As we're unanimously patrons of previews, we headed to the cinema come thirty minutes before the showing to have a rundown of the upcoming films. "Memoirs of Geisha" sure intrigues me. Kras ko si Zang Ziyi e.

On with the blurbs...

Narnia - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert!

In the movie, it was not explicitly explained where did the world of Narnia came from or how it came about but Professor Kirke - the manor owner - obviously implied that he knew about the weird thing going on with the dimension-crossing wardrobe. I wasn't able to read C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia novels but it might be that Professor Kirke, himself, had been on Narnia too on the other books. Other than that, the movie is seamless enough to avoid having any other "loose ends" that will leave the viewers baffled on how the heck things had happened. Of course, sans the fast forwarded continuum between the Pevensie siblings' childhood up to their maturity inside the world of Narnia before they finally went back to "reality" at the final part of the film. We can just simply imagine that between those times they stayed and ruled peacefully over the kingdom.

Anyway, the depiction of the world of Narnia in the film is sooooo awesome, especially the winter wasteland setting. It's so fit for the cold, ruthless presence the White Witch should project. From costumes to digital effects, the environment created for the movie is captivating not only for the kids but for the adults as well while maintaining simplicity and straightforwardness in the overall production... no overdoing of dazzling effects, no more-than-needed extravagance in the casts' attires, no exaggerated plot within subplots of a storyline. Everything shown in the production per se was just what was minimally required to make the story bring us to the fantasy world and give us a sense of how it is to be in the shoes of the Pevensie siblings.

I also liked how the director emphasized on the character development of the siblings - Susan the Cerebral, Peter the Judicious, Lucy the Empathetic, and Peter the Brash {waaah! typo! tatanga tanga kasi... it should be Edmund the Brash}. All throughout the movie, the protagonists have compellingly shown that they were doing things as to their nature (as more the obvious to Peter's {ulit pa sa typo hehe! idol talaga si Bob Ong... sinabi nang Edmund!} eventual betrayal because of perhaps his curiosity and/or greed to the throne of Narnia).

All in all, it's a great watch. In a scale of 10, I give it sampung sago... fantastic cinematography, great story, nice approach to the intended theme. I can't give a commentary regarding the book's adaptation for I haven't read any of the seven (?) Narnia novels but I have this feeling that Andrew Adamson (the director) made justice to the original work of C.S. Lewis.

*****

Happy Friday the 13th everyone!!! Quick, taya tayo sa lotto!!!