Ah yes, the movie. Oddly, I decided to re-read Narnia, and finished doing so, shortly before I heard about the movie, which caused me to be quite startled when a trailer showed up before Wallace and Gromit!

The group I was with wasn't 100% convinced by the trailer, because its wide sweeping vistas gave us a strong feeling that someone had thought "quick, what else can we film that we can make look like Lord of the Rings?", and indeed at one point in the trailer I had trouble visually distinguishing Aslan from a Warg. I might go to see it regardless, although it's more likely that I'll do what I usually do with vaguely interesting-looking films, which is to persistently fail to get myself organised until it's not on in cinemas any more.

I'm just fascinated to see how they're going to make a film out of it at all. From reading the book recently, I was surprised at how little actually goes on; if it were a text adventure, you could solve it by typing FOLLOW ASLAN, or whoever it is that's present at the time. The kids do very little themselves other than follow the character they met most recently (Queen, Otter, Aslan) and tuck into whatever food that character provides. In which case, I feel they must have invented an awful lot of scenes in order to have made a two hour epic movie. I also hope they've struck lucky with the actor playing Lucy, because they're stuck with her for a while.