Product: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Two Disc Edition + BD-Live) [Blu-ray] (2008)
Rating: 4.0
Narnia with a dose of reality
First of all, a movie can never live up to the book or nostalgia, especially if you read the story as a child.With that said, I'm highly aware of the differences between the book and the movie. It's difficult to translate dancing trees, mythical Bacchus, and children released from stuffy institutions as a reawaking and renewed freedom of Narnia that only words and the power of imagination can explain. Winning a battle tells much more on a screen.The liberties taken to change the story for cinema worked well for visual presentation. Reality (at a PG level) was thrust into fantasy as the protagonist children struggle to save what they learned to love in Narnia while dealing with their own emotional conflicts rooted at home. I didn't care for the love interests between Susan and Caspian, but these film snippets will be a venue to explain Susan's character change of heart that happens rather abruptly in another book - and hopefully will come to film.Prince Caspian is a delightful, exciting tale, but it's not a rock-em-sock-em rollercoaser ride. Enjoy it for what it is - the retelling (and best to date) of the continuing children's adventure in Narnia.