[the invisib1e hand]

Doesn't work as a cartoon. Already been done, twice, once by the BBC. Neither was particularly successful.

dude, that was high school work from the last century; nay, the last millenium.

"Action" is not what the Chronicles of Narnia are about. If that's what you're after...maybe you want a Mel Gibson movie.

A fantasy about talking animals can only be carried off with first rate animation, like Disney used to do.

[AnAmericanMother]

Disney animation, even from the golden days, doesn't really work for this sort of story (and if you're worried about primitive animation from the last century, that seems a bit contradictory).

It's not a straight "talking animal" flick, and it's not really an action film (my kind of action film leans towards Kurosawa anyhow), it has a mythic, numinous quality that's difficult to capture. "The Last Unicorn" is another example of how a mythic fantasy doesn't translate to cartoons. Mostly because some of the characters (Aslan, the Unicorn) have to appear fundamentally different from both the other animals and the humans in the story. Cartoons make all the characters look alike. I loved the book of "Unicorn" but hated the cartoon.

The CGI combined with live actors seems to me to be the best way to approach this sort of story.