Jesse is an artistic schoolkid with (like seemingly every male character in American TV/Cinema - what's with that?) Daddy Issues - not to mention Sister Issues (he has four of them). At the beginning of a new school year, he meets new arrival
Initially, I was a bit "When do we get to Narnia?", but once I realised that I wasn't watching the film I thought I was watching, I just sat back to enjoy it. When the death came, it was completely unexpected and I remained pretty choked up for, well, the rest of the film. I was rather pleased that despite hinting that they would do the clichéd thing and somehow use the magic kingdom to reverse death, and then proceeded do do no such thing. Yes, the CGI blowout at the end is an attempt to retrieve something of a Hollywood ending, but it's certainly no more than bittersweet - and that, in a Disney movie, is rather refreshing.
PS. Yes, I know it's based on a book which was published way before HP.
