[ZGuy]

My complaint was that they didn't build up Aslan at all. He was on the screen for I think 3 short scenes and then he sacrificed himself. It wasn't long enough to allow the audience to have any emotional investment in him.

OK. He's walking off to get killed. OK. Next scene.

Is there a four-hour director's cut coming?

[Rebelbase]

"OK. He's walking off to get killed. OK. Next scene."

Garden of Gethsemane reference.

[Bob J]

I don't think they did a good job setting up the characters. In Potter and LOTR I think they did a better job establishing why the characters do the things they do later in the movie. I didn't believe these kids would become the Kings and Queens of Narnia, not, that the denizons of Narnia would want or need them.

[TomSmedley]

My complaint was that they didn't build up Aslan at all. He was on the screen for I think 3 short scenes and then he sacrificed himself. It wasn't long enough to allow the audience to have any emotional investment in him.

For a terrific film on the WRONG way to do incarnation, see John Candy's Delerious.