OK. You slackers who still haven’t seen the movie–too bad if you get spoilers.

We went opening night. Me, the old grumpy one, my son, fifteen, and my daughter, fourteen. We all liked this one way better than The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

And yet…

I hadn’t read the book in eight years so I sat through the movie amazed that I had forgotten so much. “I didn’t remember Peter being such a jerk,” I thought.

I didn’t remember that he attacked the city, either.

So I came home and pulled out the book and flipped through the chapters and it looks to me like half the movie wasn’t in the book and half the book wasn’t in the movie.

The movie worked. I loved it. I can’t help but wonder what Lewis would have thought of it, though.

What about you? Did you like it? Did Peter’s arrogance and sulkiness bother you? I always thought he was the noble one and I was a little shocked by his fighting and his bad attitude. Kind of the way I was bothered in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe when the kids broke the window and instead of taking their lumps they ran away. That didn’t fit in with the picture I had in my head of those four Pevensie kids.

Edit: I should have checked Noel’s blog before I posted. Of course she posted a great little review the day after the movie opened. She’s so efficient, that one.