Is Aslan Safe?

I'm reading CS Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe before I watch the movie adaptation. Upon first hearing about Aslan (the original Lion King), one of the children asks if Aslan is safe. The reply (p75-76) is well worth considering:

'If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than me or else just silly.'

'Then he isn't safe?' asked Lucy.

'Safe?' said Mr. Beaver. 'Don't you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.'

Rookmaaker on Films

HR Rookmaaker was a Dutch art historian and critic and a close friend and colleague of Francis Schaeffer. In his work Modern Art and the Death of Culture he offers an interesting critique of popular films:

"Many of the films people see, for instance, are good entertainment, and often have a little moral point. Yet they are bad. For they depict as true a world which is limited and superficial, one without God, without the deeper questions in man's heart, without real matters of life and death, for life and death are reduced to sentiment, or adventures, or crime and violence or cruelty, without any sort of judgment expressed. Most films of this type are good in the bourgeois sense, and they are certainly not meant to be anti-Christian. But they help to close the sky. They leave God out of the picture."