Product: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Two Disc Edition + BD-Live) [Blu-ray] (2008)
Rating: 2.0
Unfortunate - Did not stick to the book...
The reason the first Disney "The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe" movie worked and was so successful, as did all three Lord of The Rings movies, is because the films stuck for the most part to the books. While these other movies might not have contained all the dialog or details, there certainly was not entirely new scenes or story-lines made up as in Prince Caspian. The battle at Prince Caspian's uncle's castle doesn't even exist in the book. The book might be considered a "coming of age" story about Prince Caspian having to grow up into a king - his character in the movie seemed too old and did not reflect well the "coming of age" idea. Adding the love interest between Susan and Prince Caspian was also unnecessary - why couldn't Disney leave the writing to C.S. Lewis instead of making up their own Hollywood twist on it? We took our young daughter, who has been read all the books first, to see the movie at the theater and just hope the rest of the movies aren't this bad.