Yeah, that’s very well put. Prince Caspian had more fights but they weren’t as intense and I didn’t feel they were as egregiously inappropriate for a young target audience as the “now DIE!” stabbing scene in LWW was. (I sometimes think that depictions of the Christ story have western audiences a bit too comfortable with exposing very young children to a degree of violence they wouldn’t accept from the likes of video games or even other stage plays [contrast Easter Passion Play] or movies.)

Prince Caspian is less violent than the extended version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, however both movies cut scenes until they got the PG rating. With the theatrical versions, I believe there were more minutes of violence in Prince Caspian, especially with the added scenes of the night raid on Miraz’s castle and Peter fighting Caspian, than in LWW, however, the serious injuries in LWW affected characters we knew better and might be harder to watch.

I do see where you are coming from, primarily because the Stone Table scene in LWW is made well and we feel the despair of Susan and Lucy. Apparently drawing the scene in the novel deeply affected the original illustrator Pauline Baynes. “She told me that while drawing the picture of Aslan enduring all the ‘awfulnesses’ at the hands of the White Witch and her dreadful creatures, she was crying all the time, ‘How could they do this to him?’ It was difficult to draw these things when it was breaking her heart and tears were falling on the picture. Pauline said that it was after she posted the illustrations of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to Geoffrey Bles that the truth struck her. Now she knew why she was crying for Aslan: she was weeping for the Crucified Christ.” – (C.S. Lewis and His Circle).

“Prince Caspian” was notably less violent and intense for a children’s movie than “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” was (which I don’t think deserved its PG rating).

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse also performed well critically and commercially.

The issue I had with the otherwise quite fun first “Wonder Woman” movie was that it went back and forth on the morality of whether or not killing Ares would solve anything.

The main issue I had with the somewhat morose second was that the last ten minutes (the impending nuclear war) were absurdly excessively intense for what was until then a typical PG-13 popcorn film, to say nothing of centering the drama on an unlikable father and his son in a … Wonder Woman film.