I was impressed. The movie stays much more true to the book than LOTR. The spirit of the book is preserved almost perfectly. The little add-ons at the beginning that the screenwrter just had to do are OK. The battles are not much gore and blood, but that's OK too - it's how it's supposed to be. The kids acting - they "act they own age". They are what they are. The director's main merit was not to overdirect, and let the book speak for itself. The kind of directing atrocity that was performed on Faramir in LOTR was avoided here.

I am looking forward to the other Narnia stories from same source.