You know this, but I think it’s a great movie — loads of fun, faithful to the book but actually funnier than them, excellent acting by two of the adults (the witch and the faun) and two the kids (the girls, especially Lucy), etc. When my family went to see it, the theater audience actually applauded at the end. How often does that happen? Even so, I do believe that the film occasionally moved too swiftly. I wouldn’t have wanted it to be much longer, but I would like to have seen it linger in a few places. I might have done away with the scene in which the children try to cross the icy river: It isn’t in the book, adds little to the story beyond a cheap thrill, and actually gets in the way of a scene later when Peter confronts the wolves (an important piece of character development). Also, the music did not wow me. Yet the film did a lot of things right — it deserves success not just because of what it stands for, but because it’s a fine piece of entertainment.