Product: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Two Disc Edition + BD-Live) [Blu-ray] (2008)
Rating: 4.0
What DO they teach those moviemakers in their schools?
I loved all seven books of The Chronicles of Narnia, and enjoyed The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe's movie adaptation when it came out a few years ago (I don't really consider the BBC movies to be good or valid, so I tend to block out the fact that I've seen them).I can't say that I didn't enjoy Prince Caspian, but I was disappointed in the amount of "creative license" taken. What was all that tension about between Caspian and Peter, anyway? It made them both seem petty and immature, and diminished their roles as nobel, "good" young men. And why, oh why, does every director think there needs to be a romantic interest between any characters of the appropriate age? That was just plain dumb, in my opinion...Susan is dislikable enough as it is without making her irritating as well.I sometimes wonder if the people who write the screenplays ever read the original books they're supposed to be adapting. Although Prince Caspian wasn't "that bad" when it came to it, I can only see a future of more and more deviation from the story as the movies go on (look at the Harry Potter movies and how vastly different from the books they've become, compared to the almost-perfectly-done first HP movie). I would love to see more of these, but I would enjoy seeing them made well.Another reviewer mentioned that he/she couldn't connect with the characters because of so little dialogue, and I realized that's what I'd been missing without being able to pinpoint it. The dialogue and banter in a movie are the only insights we get to a character in a movie, since we can't see inside the mind as we can in a book. Not every viewer prefers slam-bang action over plot content.Yes, yes, I'll most likely see the next Narnia movie if/when it comes out, but I'll be hoping for better things.