*INCREDIBLE!!* The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Reaction: FIRST TIME 

Fun fact: the dog's tails are all CGI. Apparently they were so happy to be there, they wouldn’t stop wagging their tails.

The wardrobe is special because the professor was one of the first children who visited Narnia. He used a magic apple from Narnia to heal his mother, then the seeds became a tree and the wood was used to make the wardrobe.

i actually feel so sorry for edmund. imagine being a 10 year old child during a war, when food is rationed, and you haven’t had a sweet or a proper meal in ages. and most of all, the sweet was enchanted so that he would always want more. the poor kid basically had no chance.

Fun Fact: When Lucy first meets Mr. Tumnus at the Lantern, the scream she let out was 100% real. She had never seen the actor, James McAvoy, in his whole costume. That was the first time she saw him and it scared her so much she actually screamed. The director, Andrew Adamson, said it was a perfect reaction and kept it. Unfortunately, they had to re-shoot the rest because Georgie Henley, Lucy, broke character and said, "James, is that you?"

Hey, Thor. Fun fact about this movie. C.S. Lewis and Tolkien actually knew each other and based a character in their books about each other. Lewis based the Professor on Tolkien and Tolkien based Treebeard on C.S. Lewis.

Edmund is a 10 year old boy in 1940 during world war 2 when there was sugar rationing and had been sent away to some stranger's house with his siblings who (particularly the elder 2) were being real jerks and had no idea that the seemingly kind lady offering the turkish delight was the literal embodiment of evil who would kill his family and himself once she no longer had any use for them.

I just want to say this. Do you notice what the White Witch is wearing during the battle ? She is wearing the cut of mane of Aslan as a trophy

That music fade when Lucy opens the door to the room with the wardrobe always gets me. It’s the perfect tone setting uneasiness but so simple.

Narnia is SO underrated! The casting and acting is outstanding. The visuals and the cinematography is phenomenal. The score is so good. Everything about it is just amazing. Fun facts: Georgie Henley's (Lucy) first reaction to Narnia is genuine. They didn't let her see the set until they filmed it. Her reaction to Mr. Tumnus is also genuine, for she had not seen James McAvoy in his costume before the scene was filmed. Also, Georgie Henley's older sister Rachael Henley plays Lucy when she's grown-up. The character of the White Witch was inspired by the Snow Queen from the story of Hans Christian Andersen (Elsa from Frozen is loosely based on her too since she was originally supposed to be the villain). C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were very close friends. Tolkien was even instrumental in Lewis' own conversion to Christianity. Although Lewis did not originally set out to incorporate Christian elements and themes into the books, it is something that occurred as he wrote them. I know Prince Caspian and Voyage of The Dawn Treader didn't do as well in the box office as this one, and people kinda lost interest. They were also competing with bigger franchises like Harry Potter and The Hunger Games. They were gonna adapt The Magician's Nephew, the first book of the series, until Walden Media lost its rights to the franchise in 2011. The Mark Gordon Company retained the rights instead to adapt the next book in the franchise, The Silver Chair. But for some reason that never happened, and in 2018, Netflix acquired the rights to develop their own Narnia reboot. However, there have not been any updates on the project for years, so the future of Narnia remains a mystery. I'm totally up for Harry Potter, but I would love for you to react to The Voyage of the Dawn Treader too. It's certainly not as good as the other two but still entertaining (mainly because of the legend that is Eustace!).

when I was a kid, I can't tell you how much I wished my own wardrobe would transport me to another world! still do...

The book is about 100 pages and is so powerful. This was made by a fan and was one of the most true to adaptations from a book to a movie I have ever seen.

Fun fact about the Professor. His name is Diggery and he appeared in one of the prequel books that never got made into a movie. As a kid, he went to Narnia when it was first created. It's his fault the White Witch was released on Narnia and he built that wardrobe from a Narnian tree.

4:24 fun fact: that WAS her first time actually seeing it! They wanted a genuine reaction!

See this is why I love reactions, they notice things you miss. Like I never once noticed the fact that her crown is melting the entire time until it’s completely gone. I also never noticed that she shaved Aslan purely so she could wear his mane into war the next day. He took her crown by bringing forth the spring, she took his crown by literally cutting it from his body.

The reason they didn't recognize the light at the end is because it was such a small part of they're time in Narnia and they're journey, it was forgotten about for the most part, plus it was like 10+ years (in Narnia time) since they seen it or thought about it or even thought about going back home, so, anyone would see it as something unfamiliar for the most part

I will die waiting for "Magician's nephew" to be made into a movie. It's my favorite book of Narnia series

I remember watching this in theaters and during the battle scene the silence was so intense that you could hear the King Kong movie playing next door 😂

Fun fact: C.S Lewis was a ardent atheist in his youth who became a Christian in adulthood. He created Aslan as a representation of Jesus. It is the reason he created Aslan as a lion as Jesus is known as The Lion of Judah and why Aslan gives his live willingly for Edmund and comes back to life representing Jesus death and resurrection. Also the word aslan means lion in Arabic.

This movie was one of my favorites as a kid, and it still holds all that childhood magic when I watch it. The special effects also hold up super well for a nearly 20 year old movie. So much of this adaptation is just top tier. Tilda Swinton and Liam Neeson were PERFECT for their roles and so were all the actors playing the Pevensies. The score, the visuals, the way the film expands on the characters and parts of the book that aren't very detailed without feeling inauthentic... it's all just *chef's kiss*. It's a shame that Dawn Treader didn't turn out so great and ended up as the last movie. Hoping Netflix can do something good with Narnia and actually adapt the whole series (if they're even still planning their Narnia series...it's been so long with no news). But honestly, I don't know how anyone could adapt LWW better than this film.

Tilda Swinton is so great as the Witch! Even when she's surrounded by magical CGI creatures, she steals every scene she's in.

C.S Lewis and J.R.R Tolkien (the author of The Lord of the Rings) both knew each other and were veterans in World War One. Both of them were Christian, as we see references to Jesus in their books (Aslan representing Jesus, his sacrifice representing Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, the stone table cracking representing the stone that was cracked and rolled away from His tomb, and Gandalf's resurrection after he sacrificed himself to save the Fellowship from the Balrog)

The Narnia books by C.S. Lewis are more than just a simple Christian allegory. Nearly everything in them is meant to articulate Lewis' particular views of Christianity. This book obviously gives an interpretation of Christ's crucifixion and a version of what that is supposed to mean in certain angles of Christian theology -- such as the idea that while even Aslan (Christ) has to abide by "deep magic," there is "deeper magic" that the White Witch (Satan?) didn't know about. And the idea that the crucifixion was God sacrificing to redeem sinful humanity (Edmund). The other books highlight other aspects of Christian theology. They also reflect some aspects of Lewis' general world view -- conservative but humane, monarchist, and generally preferring grand legend and old mythologies to modern science and versions of logic ... versions of logic he would have said were not true logic. The amazing thing is that I disagree with most of all that. But I love the books and find the Christian ideas in them some of the most credible available. They don't convince me to believe in Christianity. But they make me much more respectful of at least some Christian theology.

I grew up watching the narnia movies and seeing people enjoy it for the first time is something I envy😂

I love this movie so much the music, acting, and characters are alk great. I especially love the beavers and Aslan. He is one of Liam Neeson's best characters. It truly is one of the best book to film adaptations.

Fun fact: that lamp post actually GREW there where they find it

I remember playing Narnia at recess with all my school friends when this came out… great memories

Thank you for sharing the wonderful message of Narnia. Please continue with the trilogy.

Narnia, the lion the witch and the wardrobe is an amazing film One of the rare 10/10

Extraordinary reaction and you both reflect the spirit of Narnia. 🥰 The scene with Professor Kirke talking to Peter and Susan is one of my favorites. Excellent performances by all the performers. Anna Popplewell's subtle expressions in this and other movies make her a favorite. Enjoying reading the comments too. For Narnia ... and For Aslan!

Well Turkish delight is actually not always made properly it’s suppose to melt in the mouth and has a filling of super fresh green pistachios , most places make it overly tough and with too much rose water just not the same at all - a similar example is Mochi many places make it too dense and sugary when it’s supposed to be very soft and melt after a few chews so yeah it’s your first time trying something and it’s not made right the odds are you’d be turned off from trying it again this is why when I personally make sure to try the best version of something I’m tasting if it’s my first time ever trying it.

Read the books! I have read them so many times since I was little. (I am 53 now). The White Witch does come back in a later book, but that book is a prequel. It's about the creation of Narnia.

i love this story and love the movie adaptation. i watched it so many times i broke the dvd, and used to hide in my grandma’s wardrobe trying to find narnia! it always brings back beautiful memories 🤍

This along with Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian are some of the best family movies ever! :)

I’m so excited for this reaction! This movie is underrated

Aslan was a mechanical puppet (essentially they had 3 for different shots). They set it up for the actors to be able to interact with /look at and a point of reference for the special effects team to enhance details and the like. YOU SHOULD LOOK AT THE BEHIND THE SCENES FOR EVERYTHING IN THE MOVIE!!! Lol. It is so cool. Even the river thawing out had a very complicated rigging set up for the actors to actually get wet! It’s great

I love this movie, I first saw it in cinema at 6 years old, read the book when I was older. It's a masterpiece

In the books, the Turkish Delight has an enchantment on it that effectively made it into the magical equivalent of a drug addiction as well as made him more gullible. -------------------- I've always liked that Jadis the White Witch, one of the earliest examples of the Dark Lord Archetype, doesn't actually fit the aesthetics of the archetype that were popularized by Sauron from Tolkien (aka Black, edgy and spikey). ------------------------------ Jadis plays the role of a queen well because she was a queen in her former world before she destroyed it. ---------------------------- Liam Neeson was the perfect person to voice Lion Jesus.

I watched the movie with my classmates and it was amazing! I even read the book before I watched the movie.

Fact: The director ended up changing the character who kills the unicorn (think it was meant to be one of the minotaur's who would kill the unicorn but it was changed to a dwarf shooting it instead). But the actor who was meant to take it down didn't know until the other actor mentioned it to him.

I really hope you guys watch the other narnia movies. This movie was basicly my childhood. It was probably this movie and Lord of the Rings that made me a huge fantasy fan

1:34 Not English here, but from what I read from history, they sent their children to Northern England or Scotland. 1:47 the train is a Sterling.....it ws a very English train and was very fast for the time period.

I think the movie series ended abruptly in part due to the recession of 2008. A lot of movies in pre-production got axed at that time.

I love that Liam Neeson is the voice of Aslan

One of my favorite movies as a kid! Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

In the book Father Christmas left the Beavers' presents at their dam.

Adding another fun fact to the list, in case you didn't know, this and the next movie in this series are directed by the director of the first two shrek movies.

Yay another Jessy reaction! 💜 I guess you're cool too Thor...lol 😘

Grew up with these films, knowing this came out in 2005 makes me feel so old

I first saw Narnia onscreen as the live-action 1988-1990 BBC serials, which adapted "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", "Prince Caspian", "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" and "The Silver Chair", as well as the 1979 animated film of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe". I really recommend those versions, too! They're on DVD. Especially "The Silver Chair". The Walden film series you just started didn't get around to adapting that book before it was cancelled. .

Yoooo! I love this story

I have to say that this movie was a perfect adaptation of the book. I wish they continued this film series and didn’t stop after Book 3 (5 chronologically).

OMG yeaaa narniaaaaaaa

SPOILER FOR PRINCE CASPIAN NEXT MOVIE DONT READ IF YOU DONT WANT TO I never realized that at the very end of this film after the siblings come back to their world, the door to the wardrobe cracks open and you hear Azlan roar. “Azlan abandoned us not long after you lot did” is said in the next movie and I think I just put together that that was Azlan leaving! (Possibly to go to azlan’s country? If that’s where we can assume he goes every time he ‘leaves’ narnia?)

I wish they would have made all of the books into movies but The Walt Disney Company said they didn't make enough from the three movies they did make to justify making more. I feel that if Walt Disney was still alive and running the company, he would have made them, even if they didn't make a profit from them.

This movie randomly popped into my mind, and now I've been on a Narnia binge. I completely forgot how delightful this movie was, and I hated that they didnt continue with the series. 💛

Such a classic!

Definitely need to watch voyage of the dawn treader. One reason and do i need to say more than "more Reepicheep"? He is by far one of my altime favorite fictional characters of any genere or medium. I also think they nailed Ustace in casting, but they messed way way WAY too much with the story. Though ill say this for the movie that they didnt remove the explicit christian message from the end of Dawn Treader

Fun fact: The actress who plays Lucy was not shown the stage with the forest until they filmed this scene. So her look of amazement is actually sincere. Andrew Adamson is such a good director and understands how to get honest performances from child actors. When they had to speak to a CGI character, he would actually sit and play that character while they filmed their lines. Another fun fact is the actresses who play child Lucy and adult Lucy are sisters.

And the Professor is played by Jim Broadbent who also among other roles played Professor Slughorn in Harry Potter.

They were shooting in Czech Republic, Adršpach Teplice Rocks. Magical place, honestly!

C.S. Lewis was a student of classics at Oxford, hence all the Greco-Roman mythological creatures. It was at Oxford that he met fellow Inkling J.R.R. Tolkien, who studied philology. He was also, in his own words, "the most reluctant convert" to Christianity. Both Narnia and Lord of the Rings are prime examples of the Christian Myth, the telling of the Gospel story outside a biblical narrative, usually in the form of high fantasy. Aslan is meant to be how Christ would appear in a world inhabited by talking animals - as the Great Lion who gives his life in the place of a sinner and rises from the grave. This is also why Humans in Narnia are referred to as the Sons of Adam and/or Daughters of Eve.

I do have pleasant memories watching this in middle school. It is really well done and it’s a shame they never finished the series. I actually think I’m one of the few people that liked Prince Cassian, and in some ways I thinks it’s a better movie. I suppose if I do have a “critique” of Disney’s Narnia films it’s that this movie did it’s job so well that Disney kept trying to replicate its success by turning its other adaptations of classic fantasy stories like Alice in Wonderland and Nutcracker into Narnia style epics. There honestly was no need to do that

Most of the Narnia snowy forests were shot in a studio in Wellington, New Zealand but some of it (like the exterior to Mr. Tumnus house) were shot in Czech Republic.

This is my favorite movie

47:10 ooofff 😂😂😂 I remember wanting Lokum/Turkish delights as a child after watching Narnia and I’m so glad that when I finally got to try them I actually did fall in love with them! As a child, my parents even tried to convince me for years that I would be let down by them. I hope Jessie likes them too! 💖💕

Reaction of Lucy to seeing Mr. Tumnus the first time was real as, even if Georgie Henley did meet James McAvoy and started bonding with him, she hadn't seen him in the Tumnus makeup. The reaction of seeing Narnia the first time is also genuine as Georgie didn't see the set until it was time for shooting. She was blind folded and it was taken of right before the first take, looking in awe when she saw the snowy landscape.

the winter scenes were filmed in the Czech Republic. Georgie Hensley didn't know about the snow and so her reaction was actually real as well as her scream at meating Tumnus, they didn't let her know about him so it was legit reaction!!!

I live near the mountains of Mourne in Northern Ireland, Lewis' inspiration for the landscape of Narnia.

The Fox is voiced by Rupert Everett who voiced Prince Charming in Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third. While recording for Shrek 2, he heard from director Andrew Adamson (one of the directors of Shrek and Shrek 2 and the director of this film and Prince Caspian) and Everett asked him if there was a part he could play. The only part left for him was The Fox, which he accepted.

16:38 To be fair she gave him enchanted Turkish delight - any food or drink that's made out of that liquid in that little bottle of hers is so addictive you'd eat it to death if you were given the chance to.

My 5th grade teacher made us read the book. Then the movie came out in December that year!! We went as a class!! It was great and a memory ill always cherish!! ❤

The soilder who Peter was looking at during the train station, was another guy who audition for the role of Peter but lost to William Mosley.

I think some of this was shot in New Zealand. This is a favorite fantasy film, so great!

“If that’s not Prince Charming, I don’t know what is.” Me: “Actually it’s the Fox.” 😉

this movie and most of the second film (prince Caspian) was filmed in New Zealand and directed by NZ director Andrew Adamson. Third one wasn't cause there was a new director who i guess just didn't want to.

Thank you so much for this reaction! Watching this film introduced me to the world of Narnia. I’ve read every book, seen every screen adaptions, and I was Fenris Ulf (Maugrim) and Father Christmas for a stage play of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe . Unfortunately, complications and Covid prevented us from performing; I hope to finally perform it one day. I would love to see you react to Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I hope this franchise can get a tv series treatment where each season is a book. Also I don’t know if it’s been mentioned that this entire chronicles was an allegory based on the Bible. Also that C.S. Lewis was friends with J.R.R. Tolkien the author of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and the Hobbit. 👩🏻‍🦰🧑🏻‍🦱👩🏻‍🦱🧑🏼🦁👸🏼🚪❤️💛💙🩶

The old man is Digger. What a adventure!

This is one of my favorite childhood movies.

Voyage of the Dawn Treader is one of the best book in the series. You should make a video about it. Re watching it now with you guys, I'm also impressed by the visuals and storytelling! A true work of love. This was done with Disney 20 years forward look how low we've come!!!!!! Mind you in between we had Toy Story, The Lion King, and the Marvel Universe but still...

Aslan to the White Witch, since the voice is right: "...I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career, skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let Edmund go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you. I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."

Fantastic

In the books, she enchanted the sweets to be incredibly addictive.

I was just binge watching the series again😂

In the books it explains that the turkish delight sets a spell on edmund which is why he wants more so desperately and why he's ready to betray his siblings for it.

Even though it’s a direct analogy for Christianity and Jesus’ crucifixion, it’s an amazing film and a very well told story

3:29 that is totally not fair how little sisters have that power over big brothers

the senes in begining, (forest, house of Tumnus and few landskapes) were filmed in Czech republic. Im from this country and wisited these places few times already... not in winter but its allways a beautiful walk in summer or fall.

In the book father christmas gives the beavers presents he finishes the dam for mr beaver and leaves a new sewing machine for mrs beaver

C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were friends and collegues at Oxford University. After work, they'd often meet at the pub The Eagle and The Child to have a meat pie and a pint of beer, along with two other men and critize each other's work. Tolkien wasn't too keen on Lewis' idea of having Father Christmas in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, but Lewis ignored his friend's comment and let him stay in the story. Coincidently both The Lord of the Rings and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (and about half of Prince Caspian) were filmed in New Zealand and had the involvment of Weta Workshop and Tolkien concept artists Alan Lee and John Howe. Kiran Shah who plays Ginnarbrik were the scale double for Bilbo, Frodo and Merry (for the most part unless both Frodo and Merry were in the same scene) in The Lord of the Rings (and would go on be in The Hobbit as Bilbo's scale double once again, scale double for Thraín in the Extended version of Desolation of Smaug, a burning child at the start of Unexpected Journey, one of the golbins in Goblin Town and the voice and mo-cap for the Goblin Scribe).

Because of the fact that it’s not really explained in this movie or the others, I thought you might like to know that Professor Kirke from the movie is meant to be Digory Kirke from the first book “The Magicians Nephew” so he’s actually been to Narnia and was in fact there when Aslan created Narnia.

Nice reaction Thor react this is my all time favorite movie this my childhood right here I still have the gamecube game of this I hoped you had fun watching it also I subscribed to your channel👍

I didn’t even realize that was the guy from Split until you said it.

I remember first reading the book 📕 from narnia before, bbc version in 3rd grade and Disney movie in the theaters 18 years ago.

I always check my wardrobe as a kid.

Philip the Horse is voiced by producer Philip Steuer.

This book to movie adaption was done so well! (Prince Caspian deviated from the book a bit, and Dawn Treader even more so, but I wish theyd kept as close as the first ...)

"The youngest is the smartest" Out of the mouths of babes comes wisdom.

13:43 welcome to Czech Switzerland ;)

Please watch the other two Narnia films♥️🙏🏻

Many of the scenes were shot here in the Czech Republic.