We went with our five year old granddaughter and she sat on the edge of her seat the whole time. It was amazing to this old fan of C.S. Lewis. When Beaver said, "further in" I wanted to go with him. Only complaint, I wish they had shown the unicorn being healed... and maybe the butterfly too. I guess that it was in before the cut.
Such an enchanting movie.
Ya gotta like Tumnus. A great faun to have tea with.
My main complaints were turning the charmingly domestic beavers of the original into the stereotypic wise-cracking CGI animals which now constitute a whole genre of film, the overly-eccentric appearnace of Prof. Kirke, and the cutting down of the conversations between the children and Prof. Kirke.
(I would also have liked the scene with Aslan and Peter discussing tactics, where Aslan says he can't promise to be at the battle, left in, and used to make the very cinematic bombardment by the griffons be based on a blitz-inspired flash of tactical genius by Peter--would have shown him rising to the role of High King rather nicely.)
My wife and I finally found time to see it on New Year's Day (a fairly well-attended matinee). We do not go to movies very often, and had to endure a couple of crying babies on the other side of the theatre, but wanted to support a good film for "children of all ages".
LOL! You know when the White Witch did in the butterfly the only thing I could think of was the Blue Meanie in Yellow Submarine stomping on the butterflys in Pepperland!!