The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (DVD, 2006, English, French, Spanish DVD Widescreen)

A great way to entertain yourself. Just pop "The Lion, the Witch & The Wardrobe" into your DVD player and you're set if rain forces you to stay inside. The movie is very good with image effects, but does deviate from the book at several times. For one thing, while the book says that the kids were evacuees from London during World War II, the Blitz was added on especially for the movie. The book was probably set in late-1939, which saw the biggest-ever of all the evacuations of women and children from London and other big cities in Britain. By the time the blitz was underway, evacuation was down to a trickle as most Britons were determined to tough it out together. Another area where the movie deviated from the book was that the kids hid in the closet, not because they broke a window playing ball, but to hide from the lady of the house as she was showing guests around. In this version of Narnia, Peter and Susan are portrayed as a little more immature than in the book, often given to making sarcastic comments to each other, which is typical of teenagers. They look more like 21st Century teenagers appearing in a movie that just happened to be set in 1939 or 1940.
This edition of Narnia is far more dramatic and emotionally charged than a BBC version which was released at the end of the 1980s. This version feels like a movie, not just a videotaped stage play and brings all the movie and film technology of the 21st Century to an old story.