Jaimee and I saw the much-anticipated Chronic-what?cles of Narnia (are we still doing that?) today, and I enjoyed it pretty much exactly as much as I was expecting to: it's a good adventure story and nostalgia party, all wrapped up in a rather unsightly Christian-apologetics package.

In particular I continuously found myself hung up on the ultimate fate of Susan -- who, as we learn in The Last Battle, is cast out from Narnia/Heaven forever for the unspeakable crime of, well, read for yourself:

"Sir," said Tirian, when he had greeted all those. "If I have read the chronicles right, there should be another. Has not your Majesty two sisters? Where is Queen Susan?"

"My sister Suan," answered Peter shortly and gravely, "is no longer a friend of Narnia."

"Yes," said Eustace, "and whenever you've tried to get her to come and talk about Narnia or do anything about Narnia, she says 'What wonderful memories you have! Fancy your still thinking about all those funny games we used to play when we were children.'"

"Oh Susan!" said Jill, "she interested in nothing now-a-days except nylons and lipstick and invitations. She always was a jolly sight too keen on being grown-up."

That the rest of these delightful children are all killed in a horrible train wreck at the end of the series is also just a little off-putting. It's the most down ending to a children's book since finding out what happens to Tinkerbell at the end of Peter Pan.

Basically everything else I find interesting about Narnia I've basically already linked to previously:
* The Passion of C.S. Lewis
* All About Narnia
* C.S. Lewis didn't like the idea of a Narnia film...
* Anthony Lane has some fun with Narnia in The New Yorker
* Just How Christian Is Narnia?
* Burn, Narnia, Burn
* Far From Narnia: Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
* Catfight! Philip Pullman vs. C.S. Lewis