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Year Released 2008
Duration 144
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The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Editorial ReviewMovie Summary
Rated:
M
Director:
Andrew Adamson
Starring:
Anna Popplewell, Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley
Editorial Review
The shiny, big-budgeted Narnia movies exist in a strange universe, where New Zealand director Andrew Adamson's two Chronicles movies sit awkwardly between entertaining fluff and derivative dribble. Dead keen to get their piece of The Lord Of The Rings and Harry Potter's magical celluloid success, Team Narnia continues to make fantasy films without any discernible personality of their own.
Some of The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe's glaring annoyances have been addressed but not eradicated. Pity. Considering Narnia 2 is a carbon copy of Part 1 without the introductory back story, Adamson didn't need to again hyper-extend the elongated second half of his junior epic. Unlike every new Potter picture, threats of the second Narnia turning dark are accurate, as Peter (Moseley), Susan (Popplewell), Edmund (Keynes) and Lucy (Henley) dish up righteous death to make Jodie Foster proud. Parents, the M rating is sound. This contains plenty of carnage unleashed by a bunch of schoolkids who never reflect on their overnight transition to killing machines.
Silly us, though, because character depth and stirring subtext is what books are for. Adamson's Narnia adaptations remove all that pesky claptrap so that we can glide through a superficial reading. Beginning fast with Prince Caspian (dreamboat-in-waiting Barnes) racing out of a castle after his nefarious uncle Miraz (Sergio Castellitto) tries to kill him, the return to Wardrobe World plonks the Pevensies into a race war between the conquering Telmarine forces and banished Narnians.
Caspian, surly dwarf Trumpkin (Peter Dinklage), swashbuckling rodent Reepicheep (voice of Eddie Izzard) and the Pevensie pups rally the Narnians to fight for their freedom. Oh, and Aslan may show up. Tilda Swinton's menacing White Witch was the best thing about the first Narnia, and her miniscule cameo here emphasises the dearth of star power.
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4 comments
ciaran: I love it so much, it was so funny when the trees were atacking the army of bad guys! Even my father thought it was funny! This is a really good,funny & active movie. Even I wanted to have some of the fancy swords! I recommend this to all the animal lovers! "I know you can't miss it!" "it's so good." (21 July 2008)
ciaran: I recommend this to all the animal loving people! It's realy a good movie! (21 July 2008)
Kat: This was fantastic and far better than The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. I found it darker and much more exciting and I felt as if I were there. Which did not happen with Lion. The only problem I had with it was the inconsistency with the plot of the book when it concerns Susan and Caspian. (10 June 2008)
arjun: narina is the best at first thought it was going to be bad but i was wrong it rocks!!! (09 June 2008)
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