Robert Horton’s review of “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” indicates that he paid about as much attention to his research on C.S. Lewis as he did to the movie itself. Had his research been as “goody-goody” as he asserts the movie’s Aslan was, he would have learned that Lewis was not, in fact, Catholic, but a proud member of the Church of England. There is a significant difference – and there is a similar difference between a movie primarily for children and one for adults. Horton appears pained that LWW was not the latter, without noticing that it was purposefully the former.
Fortunately, Horton will have another opportunity to get it right. Most moviegoers and critics disagree with his distracted opinion, and there will, as he predicts, be sequels. Fortunately for moviegoers, Lewis’ characters age at a rate that will allow the child actors to remain in their roles throughout their portions of the series – something else Horton might have noticed had his research been more than perfunctory.
Timothy Goddard
Lynnwood
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