Jul 18 2008
Prince Caspian
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My birthday present some time back was a ticket to go to Prince Caspian - Narnia II. Went along today the last day of my little holiday. It was great. I really enjoyed it, but… First I have to confess to being a big fan of the book (and all the Narnia books). I discovered them in the school library around the age of 11 and was fascinated by the stories and the idea of escaping to a magical land where I could be a grown up. |
Did this film really need to be 3 hours long? There was a lot in it that wasn’t in the book and some stuff from the book that didn’t make the film. Peter is made out in the film to be a really up himself teenager with anger managment issues. Quite different from the Peter in the book. Why, oh why did we have to have a love interest between Caspian and Susan? It is said that CS Lewis didn’t like women much. He certainly writes Susan out of the stories in a rather sad way through the Dawn Treader and Last Battle stories. I don’t think he would have approved of this. The whole scene of Caspian riding to Susan’s rescue in the woods is completely out of the nature of the story and made me exclaim out loud “Oh for God’s sake!” (It was one of those moments of “whoops that came out a little too loud for a public cinema”, but you get the depth of my reaction).
I loved the effects and the battle scenes. The acting was good except that William Mosely as Peter is just as wooden as he is in the first one. Still very happy I went and anyone who likes the genre and isn’t as stuck as me on the story will love it.