Post-Christmas Report

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! My family and I just went to see The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe yesterday and we were thoroughly entertained. While the climactic battle sequence at the end was a bit too much like Lord of the Rings Lite, the beginning and middle were enthralling, the dialogue was very witty and wasn't purely plot-driven, the acting was superb (a breakthrough performance for Tilda Swinton as the White Witch), and for this cynical film buff, it was a breath of fresh air in a holiday season that's churning out bad excuses for "family films" like Yours, Mine and Ours and Cheaper By the Dozen 2. With Narnia, Walt Disney Pictures might just get out of the hole they've dug themselves into.