I told my grandkids I'd take them, but my wife is concerned the lion is too scary. I think my 10 year old grandson is fine. But I'm worried about our 8 year old granddaughter- she understands the Christian imagery, and has read the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, but she is a scaredy cat. She's itching to see it, so what do you think?
the lion isn't too scary. i don't even think the battle scenes are bad. i thought the lion could have been scarier, but they tried to keep it from scaring children.
Just came back. Took my 8 year old daughter, 15 year old son, 18 year old daughter (yes, it is quite a spread) and wife (haven't taken the entire family to the movies in a long time). My 8 year old is a bit of a scaredy cat as well and jumped and cried a few times, but the overall message insured she left the theater with a smile on her face.
Everyone in the family enjoyed it. It was worth the price of admission.
Aslan isn't scary at all. The wolves are the most intense thing in the movie. They provide the only real "jump" scares.
I think she'll be fine. Lewis's literary Aslan had a bit more of an edge to him. After all, he is not a tame lion.
Lewis acknowledge that his return to Christianity was heavily inspired by GK Chesterton's Everlasting Man. In that book, Chesterton takes issue with modern Christianity's depictions of Christ as being too soft. Chesterton points out that the Biblical Christ did have an edge and called us all to meet some pretty rigorous standards of behavior.
My 7 year old daughter snuggled up close and loved the whole movie. The emotionally wrenching part was the parting at the railway station in the beginning of the movie.