There's a lot of hate for this movie that I find quite shortsighted. Just because Aslan will be voiced be Meryl Streep doesn't change a single thing about the character. Is Bart Simpson somehow less of a boy because he is voiced (and always has been voiced) by a woman?

After seeing what Gerwig did with Barbie and knowing the material in the Magician's Nephew, I'm extremely excited for this new film. I think Meryl Streep voicing Aslan will just give Him an "otherworldly" aspect, which he needs.

I'd encourage those fans to realize nothing has been reimagined about Aslan at all. They cast Meryl Streep as a voice. They have not said they are making the lion into a lioness -- it's perfectly possible that a woman can voice this character and still have it be a masculine character. In fact, I think it likely. There's a terrific unabridged audio series of these books and Prince Caspian is read by a woman. I don't recall myself enjoying Aslan any less in that book than in any of the others read by men.

This is gonna flop if the studio is expecting a Minecraft or Mario level hit. Those were hits not because they were good, but because they could be enjoyed by whole families -- kids and adults who together are nostalgic for those games. This game doesn't sound like it checks that box.

A major difference with Borderlands is it's not a family game like Minecraft and Mario. I brought my kids to these movies multiple times because of how excited they were, wanting to share the experience with multiple groups of friends.

(I'm glad I didn't have to explain "salt sacks" to them).

Respectfully, how does this show a lack of understanding of the text? Aslan appears as a lamb, an albatross, and a feral house cat, and probably in other ways that I'm not ing off the top of my head. And (spoilers) in the magicians nephew, it was a man not a woman who fails the test of temptation and brings evil into Narnia.