10 Things About 2000s Movies That Everyone Misses Today

5. Magical Portals

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How more people didn't just vanish into another realm in the 2000s is a mystery, because it seems like magical portals were everywhere at the time!

Take the big screen adaptation of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The most well-known version of C. S. Lewis' opening to the Narnia saga starts with young Lucy wandering through a secret doorway hidden in the back of a closet.

When she comes out the other side, she's in a snowy paradise complete with a half-goat version of James McAvoy.

As for Disney's Enchanted, that sees cartoon Princess Amy Adams accidentally enter the real world through a trap set up by a wicked witch. Well, she actually ends up in New York, which isn't exactly the real world, but hey ho.

Coraline, The Golden Compass, Bridge to Terabithia, these are all films about being transported to another world through a portal of some sort and they all came out in the 2000s.

It's a simple, yet highly effective way of telling a story and one we all very much miss.

Bring it back! Or, at the very least, make a movie version of the Portal video games!

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Jacob Simmons has a great many passions, including rock music, giving acclaimed films three-and-a-half stars, watching random clips from The Simpsons on YouTube at 3am, and writing about himself in the third person.