 A number of critics took issue with what they interpreted as the film 's underlying messages . San Francisco Chronicle critic Mick Lasalle wrote in his parental advisory that " basically , this is a movie about kids who go into another world and dimension and spend the whole time killing people . " MSNBC reviewer Alonso Duralde noted that " all the heroes have British accents while the Telmarines are all decidedly Mediterranean in appearance and inflection " . An Anglican Journal review described the movie as reasonably faithful to the adventure elements of the book , much lighter on the religious faith aspects , which they found integral to the novel , and deficient on character and emotion . 
