The family film we've been waiting for since The Neverending Story!

Rating: 10/10 (5 January 2006)

The film is absolutely fabulous in pretty much every way! My four and five year-old kids really loved it, particularly my daughter, and they weren't at all scared.
The only problem with the film is that director Andrew Adamson didn't really do a great job of letting the viewer understand the power and majesty of Aslan before his death. Sure, he growls menacingly, but otherwise you don't really understand "what the big deal is" about this lion. (I don't think it was a conscious "dumbing down" of Aslan, as much as a simple failing of the director -- it's really his first major live-action film, and so one can't reasonably expect everything to be "perfect.")
But that is a minor complaint, and I still rate the film a 10. Like Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" films, I feel myself truly blessed to have seen such faithful adaptations of such beloved classics during my lifetime. (Fingers still crossed for Tolkien's "The Hobbit" and C.S. Lewis' "Space Trilogy"...!)