I saw it this afternoon, and I liked it quite well!
The trailers I'd seen on TV in past week or two had appeared quite silly to me, so I wasn't expecting much, and was pleasantly surprised.
I'm not the greatest fan of the book - I've only read The Lion, the Witch and the Warderobe, when I was around twenty/twenty-five, and although I thought some parts of it were brilliant I got bored in the middle, and don't remember all that much. (That doesn't mean it was too childish for me, though, I read a lot of "children's books" for the first time then and loved them.)
So, without hearkening back to the book too much, I thought it was beautifully, and, even though it's Disney, lovingly and carefully done.
I'd like to hear other people's opinions!

I'd also like to discuss some other aspects, but am not sure whether they fit in here or anywhere else (either the literature or Tolkien forum would be good, I think, but as I don't know the book so well, I'll start here - let me know if you think this belongs elsewhere!

(Warning for fans: negative criticism ahead!

When I read the book, I never thought there was any Christian message involved, I missed that completely, and only learnt about it on TORC somewhere.
Seeing the movie now, I recognised some parallels of the story to elements of the Gospels.
However, I still fail to see a Christian message in there.
In fact, I fail to see any message. I still think, like I did when I read the book, that the story, in spite of several brilliant elements, is often incoherent and at times shallow.
I can very well see Tolkien go

What exactly would you say is the message? Is there some deeper meaning behind the four kids on the thrones? Or is the message only in the part that's about the self-sacrifice of the King?
(And I suppose the book has a better intro to that than the movie? Because in the movie for me it was basically "d'uh", when Aslan explained the inscription on the Stone Table.)
Did someone else dislike the fact that "evil" is female and icy?
(Loved Tilda Swinton, though, and the way her character was shown - her ice-cold evil was h0tt!11

An amusing, but rather nice feature, I think, is making the faun a nice person - although a bit disturbing at first in my traditional European mythology conditioning. I mean, a little girl accepting the invitation of a faun? Might as well have followed the big bad wolf!

Do you think there's a conscious overturning of traditional concepts there?
Although the wolves were still the bad guys.
Hmmh, enough questions for one evening, I guess - hope this is not just completely confusing!
