This NARNIA series was one I absolutely loved as a kid, but being fair it hasn't really aged well in subsequent years; certainly not as well as contemporaneous stuff like THE BORROWERS and FIVE CHILDREN AND IT that CBBC made around the time and which are still definitive even today. THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE was quite fun but this six-part adaptation of the next two books just feels rushed and lightweight. The kids have much less to do than before other than just look on and the special effects are primitive to say the least. On the plus side, the Scilly Isle locations are lovely and there's some fun larger-than-life acting from Warwick Davis and Geoffrey Bayldon, but overall this is a bit of a misfire. For once the Hollywood versions were better...
