Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (1988 BBC Adaptation)

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Today, like I said, I am starting a review of all of the 1988-1990 BBC adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia. This is because a YouTube user named "K. Nakanishi", as a fun project they did at work, made a fanmade remaster by upscaling, and recoloring each part of the series to 1080p HD quality by using the DVD copies and a video editing application called DaVinci Resolve. Thanks, Nakanishi-san, for glowing the original world of Narnia up!

Starting off, we have

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (1988).

The White Witch, the antagonist of this part.

The legend himself, Aslan! He is my spirit animal, literally!

One of the first battle scenes in this adaptation. Peter's blade even has some blood on it!

Yup, there's some animation in this as well.

I'd want to ride on that animated pegasus! That looks like fun!

RAWWWR!

The pros of this 1st part are as follows.

The mixture of live-action and 2D animation make this a visually stunning production, while somewhat dated by today's standards. The music by Geoffrey Burgon is like Turkish Delight for your ears, and the Aslan puppet is one of the greatest achievements ever in the history of British TV.

The cons are that the White Witch can be kind of scary for younger viewers.

I'd give this a 10/10.

Tomorrow: My review of Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989). Due to this, my review of Finding Dory will be moved to next Sunday.