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I watched the movie, and frankly found little objectionable in it. It's certainly no worse than Narnia, which by C.S. Lewis's own admission was a deeply flawed allegory of Christianity, inasmuch as it was not Trinitarian (lacking as it does an analogue to the Holy Spirit). I think that many of us in this discussion are projecting our knowledge of the novels, which are certainly much less benign and more Deistic, onto the movie, which presented little more than a vaguely Calvinistic world-spanning theocracy backed by soldiers in the garb of 1930s Spanish army troops and Tartars straight out of Michael Strogoff.