9 minute "supertrailer" for Chronicles of Narnia (Now with direct download links)

[EricNoah]

Oh yeah, that's right. Digory and Polly. I remember now...

 

[Knightfall]

Okay, that supertrailer was AMAZING! I'm so looking forward to this movie.

And Narnia is not just for kids, I've never read the books, but even I can feel the power of this fantasy epic brewing. Look out Harry Potter, here comes the Real Thing!

I can't stand Harry Potter.

Cheers!

KF72

 

[Green Knight]

Isn't the kid in Magicians Nephew the one who

Spoiler

grows up to be the Professor who owns the house and wardrobe in the first book

? Chronologically, it's the first book.

Hah, I knew it! I never read that book, but I always suspected that

Spoiler

the professor had been to Narnia, before

.

 

[Old One]

Best line from the Supertrailer:

Susan: "But it's a beaver...it shouldn't be saying anything!"

My thoughts exactly !

~ OO

 

[reapersaurus]

That is an AMAZING trailer.

And as for comments about Narnia being a "kiddie film", I'll let this review say my likely stance:
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=21958

Narnia is an excellent film, one that I absolutely loved and will
gush about in a few moments. But it's no Lord of the Rings. It's a
kids film, one that will separate the wheat from the chaff in geek
culture as to who still lets their inner child come out to play and
who strangled theirs to death with the banality of their own
existence years ago. Me, I have a very strong connection to my inner
child.

This is a film entirely about wonder, what it is to have the
innocence of a child and what it is to have the urge to one day be a
king without actually having any prerequisites to be one. Lord of
the Rings, on the other hand, despite being a work widely read by
the young, isn't anywhere near the kids series Narnia is. It's
mature, bloody, and has several through lines that are far more
complicated than Narnia ever gets. And for that reason alone, many
are going to love LotR much more than this. LotR is grittier,
harsher and sweeping. This film, well, has Santa Claus. And that's
gonna lose some folks. You're going to hear a lot of "Well, I was
really into it until Santa showed up." And it can't be helped. Some
people just don't have inner children. While I'd like to say there's
nothing wrong with that, here at AICN, we discourage that sort of
thing. Lacking an inner child makes you incomplete around here. For
those of you that haven't figured that out, understand it now, and
understand that this is where I'm coming from. An inner child is
extremely important to loving this film, and any of you cynics
looking for LotR 2, well, you ain't gonna find it. This is a very
different film in tone and in essence.

This is not just a film about children, it is a film about
childhood, about the dreams, the wonder and the pains of growing up.
It's about finding a portal to another world and getting caught up
in the events of it. It's about talking animals, magical weapons,
mythical beasts and an unending love of Turkish Delights. And it's
about Santa Claus showing up. It's everything cynics hate about kids
films, all delightfully wrapped up into one package with a really
awesome battle scene. That's the part they're not going to hate.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

This film, well, has Santa Claus.

damn, I totally forgot that part! (didn't they call him father christmas, though?) hope he isn't the coco-cola santa....

"Always winter and never christmas! That's awful!"

 

[Storm Raven]

damn, I totally forgot that part! (didn't they call him father christmas, though?) hope he isn't the coco-cola santa....

"Always winter and never christmas! That's awful!"

If they are true to the book, then he won't be a cuddly santa. More like a powerful and awe-inspiring, but benevolent Father Christmas.

 

[Old One]

Music???

Does anyone know if the music from the trailer is music from the actual movie or is it from something else? I really like it...but it sounds darn familiar...anyone?

~ OO

 

[johnsemlak]

Interesting point. There will be casting overlaps for certain books (Prince Caspian will use all the kids; Dawn Treader uses, what, one original kid and one new kid; Silver Chair then uses the new kid from DT and yet another new kid; Magcian's Nephew needs the same from SC?; and I'll need my memory refreshed but Last Battle needs almost all of them ... and at their original ages? Then you have The Horse and His Boy, which frankly I'll be surprised if they even do as a film, with a different kid.)

Voyage of the Dawn Treader had two of the original 4 kids--Edmund and Lucy, plus the new boy Eustace. Plus, a few of the Narnians appeared in both the 2nd and 3rd books (Trumpkin is mentioned but doens't appear in the Dawn Treader IIRC)

Personally, if there will be sequals, I'd think it would be best to do the first three. There's fairly good continuity of characters (Edmund and Lucy appear in all three). Plus, I thought the series went downhill a bit after that, though my favorite was the Horse and his Boy.

 

[NiTessine]

Well, after watching that...

The movie can suck. The acting may be wooden and the script can be a commitee-written, sanitised roll of toilet paper.

But as long as they've got that music, those special effects, and that dual-wielding centaur who was fighting that minotaur, I'm going to be a happy man.