RonO: re heavy-handed and puerile in parts. I thought the handling of the logical justification/theology of just why Aslan did a deal to sacrifice himself, and why he was resurrected, was very unwieldy. It was badly thought out in the book, and handled even worse inthe film. I think basically CS Lewis was having a bit of trouble shoe-horning the overt equivalence of Jesus and Aslan into the way the story was developing.
As a recent convert(than whom there is nobody more zealous) he wanted to get the full connections into the book(for the benefit of Lucy Barfield, his god-daughter), but the story had its own legs, and would have been happier walking in a slightly different direction(in my exceedingly humble opinion). I am emphatically not joining the secularist attackers of the book and the movie, just saying I think that bit is not all that well thought out. As a whole, I thought the film was tremendous.