It is a wise man who can anticipate a Jar-Jar Binks generations before anyone else.

I think even C.S. would have had difficulty maintaining his objections in the face of the big ol' mountain of cash that Aslan can summon. Not to be cynical, but who hasn't imagined himself living out the final scene of "Trading Places" instead of living in some place that requires a worn, patched, wool sweater and eating the thin gruel that is the reward for feeding Chaucer to undergraduates.

In fact, if I were C.S., and the check were big enough, I'd be perfectly willing to see Bert Lahr mugging his way through the final battle with the White Witch. And if I felt the littlest bit guilty, well, they got churches in Barbados I could donate to.

After all, wasn't it Kipling who said "There is no promise of God nor man that goes north of ten thousand dollars?"

To make a long comment short, there are many books that I've read that made big movies, usually a downer, but there are also many big movies I saw that made go get the books that told the real story.

So hopefully this one will encourage people to go out and read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.