In spite of the quote below, Narnia IS a a deeply Christian work.
Not so The Golden Compass, a new movie due out this month. I read about it just now in the Atlantic Monthly (Dec 2007 - "How Hollywood Saved God" - strange title).
The author of the books on which The Golden Compass is based "dismissed the Lord of the Rings trilogy as an 'infantile work...' Narnia got it even worse: 'Morally loathsome,' he called it. 'One of the most ugly and poisonous things I've ever read.' He described his own series as Narnia's moral opposite. 'That's the Christian one,' he told me [author of the essay]. 'And mine is the non-Christian.'"
I'd recommend not seeing the movie, so as not to support him financially. Even if he is just posturing a bit for publicity.
The movie is put out by the same studio as Lord of the Rings and Narnia, and it would certainly be nice if they noticed the sizeable drop in ticket sales for this one, so Hollywood doesn't assume this is just a passing genre craze.
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