The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian 2008

Awesome Movie

 5

I myself thought that this movie was amazing, it had a great storyline to it and was filled with plenty of action. The actors were all superb and played their parts brilliantly. Big thumbs up to Andrew Adamson for this great adaptation of a wonderful story!

By Heather M

Well worth watching

 5

Although the plot was rather shallow (all they really did was fight) the characters were realistic, the acting great, the scenery amazing and pleasently humourous at times. Besides, I like to see films for the action and advenure, not see people wail about how their boyfriend ditched them or oh how ugly they are. Great movie to relax on.

By Laurie

A More Satisfying Sequel

 4

Prince Caspian was always a more involving book than the first, and this is captured by the movie adaptation; Called into Narnia over a thousand years afte rthey left, though only a few months by our time, the four children of Finchley find that like their own war-torn London, the land the saved has been almost broken by an invading enemy from another state; yet the one person who seems to be key to defeating the despot and his less than trustworthy underlings is of the enemy camp.

The four child leads are quite believable in their roles, while some are more stylish actors than others. The adventure has real challenges, and is never entirely safe - Many times it looks like the Narniana may well be defeated, but the story moves in logical ways and never takes a turn to the contrived. Of course, Alsn is the ultimate 'deus ex machina' but Lewis wrote him that way and his appearance is only to add the finishing touch to the triumphs of the other characters, so it feels right.

Characters drive this story as well. The nobility growing in the children is well captured, as are the personalities of the many background players - Especially the grumbling dwarves and the magnificently vainglorious Reepicheep, a mouse with truly knigthly tlaents (Ably voiced by Eddie Izzard, and who gets a classic Adamson touch when dealing with the menace of a cat ). Even the villians are portrayed as having depths and complex motivations, and their evil is shown as a concious choice to do what they know is wrong.

Some people who watched along with me felt the movie was 'cheesy' in parts, as none of the villians died at the hands of the 'good guys' when they had a chance to do it . . . Probably a result of our secular worldview facing a Christian allegory without understanding; Yes, there is a strong undercurrent in this story, though it is never directly spoken and in fact makes the tale stand out from the average fantasy world.

So I rate this very highly and would recommend it to families for a very different action film.

By D F Stuckey

good adventure

 5

Narina prince Caspian was about two sisters and two brothers coming back to Narnia and fighting back for the Narnia people.
The thing I liked about I was that it was very adventurous and I wasn’t like one of those movies that you just know what’s going to happen.
The thing I didn’t like about the movie was the war was sooooo long

By renee (age 10)

Old fashion, but the kids liked it.

 3

The children actors are quite ordinary in these movies. Stilted, and dialogue is terifically hammy. It's quite long and slow going too.

BUT... otherwise is a grand old epic, with some cute wee CGI fellas. Old timey, but enjoyable.

By Serena

 4

i recon it was good because it had lots of exciting features in it .

By holly

Another great book on film

 4

When the birth of a Telmarine child is celebrated with sky rockets over the castle at night very classic Walt Disney Lucy is still sweet ,a nice little kiss for the romantic's in us,great costume and set I would have liked to have some NZ actors in this other than that a great family movie

By Tania