With all of the commercialism spawned from the movie, along with the sappy modernization of the way the children conversed with each other (people did use language differently in the 1940s), I would imagine that our dear C.S. would have nothing kind to say about the adaptation of his most popular story. It's a shame, really.

Now, I know that when a book it turned into a movie that there is some poetic license taken, and there has to be embellishments and filler because there is a lot of non-cinematic elements in the story. What perturbed me the most was the kids spoke like today's kids of 2005, not 1945. I almost expected the kids to say to each other, "Let's get jiggy with it!" or Aslan saying, "Hey peeps, that White Witch is a real biatch!"

The music for the soundtrack—I was expecting beautiful orchestrations, but they tried to use pop songs written especially for the movie, and it wasn't working for me. I mean, I do like some of the songs they have on the soundtrack and I did iTunes it, because there were a couple I liked, but the songs didn't make an association for me with Narnia.

What they did do well and I will sing the praises of, are the special effects. That alone helped this movie not be a total hodge-podge of weirdness.

Yeah, I will have to confess, I'll go see the rest of the series. Hell, I may even own the DVD when it comes out. It's just...I was hoping for something more magical and special, like how the Lord of the Rings books were adapted as well as the Harry Potter series.