Update: Here's another, way-better-than-mine review of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe over at Biblical Christianity. 
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It was excellent! Better than Goblet of Fire.
I've just returned from seeing The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and I loved it from the opening scene to the closing.
The movie added a few scenes that weren't in the book, but it was still enjoyable for a purist like me. In fact, I think the WWII blitzkrieg opening, though not in the book, was very effective in establishing the characters and subsequent action.
All the young actors were good, especially the boy who played Edmund. He was appropriately naughty and heroic. Tilda Swinton as the White Witch gave me chills, and her seduction of and cruelty to Edmund were compelling. The musical score was hauntingly beautiful.
Is anyone here old enough to remember the movie Candleshoe? I think that was the first "English manor" kids movie I ever watched. British children's movies have a certain charm that American movies don't. The English accents, an air of formality, cavernous mansions, and dark and dreary scenery remind me of Agatha Christie’s “cozy” mysteries, some of my favorite books.
The Christian imagery is even more obvious on screen. In fact, you'd have to be completely ignorant of the Bible to miss it.
I give “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” a thumbs-up, and I can’t wait for the inevitable movie adaptations of the rest of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia books. 
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Addendum: Now this is a review!
Soundtrack review at Infuze Magazine's Narnia Blog.
