Product: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Two Disc Edition + BD-Live) [Blu-ray] (2008)
Rating: 3.0
Shades of Lord of the Rings
While the first movie in this series ran fairly true to the book, this movie was a big jump away, seeming more like a children's Lord of the Rings. Much, much darker than the book, filled with angst-ridden teens (not in the book), an Aslan who is conspicuous by his absence for most of the movie (also not in the book), an unlikely battle (which was not in the book) which left a foolish, hot-headed Peter having to strand Narnians inside the castle to be slaughtered (as if the real Peter would have done that!), dour dwarves (who in the book were cheerful and cheeky). . .the list goes on. Probably the most admirable characters are Edmund and Lucy. The others just tend to fight amongst themselves a lot (although Peter's fight scene with Miraz is pretty cool :^)).That said, it's not actually a bad movie. It's clean, with no swearing or sex scenes/innuendoes, and if there are a lot of battles, at least there's hardly any blood. If you haven't read the book--or maybe just don't care whether it follows the book or not--then you will probably enjoy this movie.