Narnia

Well, I just saw the Narnia movie. I thought it was ok. Not particularly God related which was nice, although there were definitely unmistakeable references to Jesus's resurrection. The movie was beautiful to look at, and the actor who played the faun stole the show. The little girl who played Lucy was a definite improvement over the girl who played her in the PBS miniseries. They had the same hairstyle though. The rest of the kids were just ok. Susan was annoying which is ok since she was annoying in the book. Peter was serviceable. And Edmund was also ok. The talking animals were believeable as talking animals.

Tilda Swinton was less interesting than I thought she'd be. She wasn't in the movie that much and usually she seemed confined to dresses made out of chickenwire with fabric stretched over. It didn't look particularly good or cool. Also, there were a couple things that seemed ripped right out of the Lord of the Rings.

The one thing that I did have a problem with was the Disnification of the whole thing. When Aslan comes back to life (just like Jesus!) he remarks something to the effect of that if a pure person sacrifices himself in the place of the traitor, even death will be reversed. If Aslan knew that ahead of time, (that he would come back to life, and frankly he seemed a little smug about it) than his sacrifice doesn't really mean as much does it? Also, I remember the part where all the stone people were returned to life, but somehow it seemed way more saccharine in the movie, because essentially it becomes a war where none of the good guys die. All the significant good guys are killed off and then brought back to life at the end and then Lucy has the magic potion that cures all injury. Yay. I mean I know it's a kid's movie but shouldn't war come at some sort of cost?