I did like the way they wove together Eustace turning back into a human with the seventh sword at the end; I thought that was more than mildly clever. And I do really like the foregrounding of WWII, which is more insistent than in the books; Lewis I think wanted to forget or downplay that, but I think it's important to remember.
I don't have a problem with the Christianity per se (I loved these books long before I ever understood what about them was supposed to be Christian), but I really just did think that at a few points it was just unartistically blatant. Lewis lets his didactic purpose get the better of him at times too, but the screenwriters have so far refused to follow his missteps in that regard, and it was disappointing to me that they didn't in this film. But otoh in the book Aslan actually appears to them in the form of a lamb at the end, so they did make some choices against that tendency too.
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Date: 2011-01-13 20:00 (UTC)I don't have a problem with the Christianity per se (I loved these books long before I ever understood what about them was supposed to be Christian), but I really just did think that at a few points it was just unartistically blatant. Lewis lets his didactic purpose get the better of him at times too, but the screenwriters have so far refused to follow his missteps in that regard, and it was disappointing to me that they didn't in this film. But otoh in the book Aslan actually appears to them in the form of a lamb at the end, so they did make some choices against that tendency too.