Product: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Two Disc Edition + BD-Live) [Blu-ray] (2008)
Rating: 4.0
An enjoyable trip back to Narnia
I am giving this 4 stars because it is not as compelling as the first, though the special effects are certainly better and the scenery is New Zealand at its most gorgeous.But there just wasn't the same sense of how much was at stake, perhaps because the children were not really that differentiated and had to share the lead with Caspian, and the conflict wasn't on a one to one level as it was with the White Witch, Aslan, and Peter.She makes a brief appearance, great stuff, then poof, gone, leaving us with only Caspian's ambitious uncle.It is true, there is less magic in this film, but that is because they have been spending centuries trying to stamp it out by making Narnia and its inhabitants extinct. Still, Aslan gets so little screen time it is almost a let down--I mean, where WAS he. And the trees section is straight out of LOTR II.I did enjoy the battle scenes but there was a fair amount of violence and depictions of wounds.One final point, some of the scenes like the opening giving birth are not quite what one would expect for a Disney 'kids' film.