Review of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) by Jayakrishnan R — 16 Mar 2013

Budget-200 Million+$, Gross- 440- 480 Million $.

Prince Caspian is the best film among the three films made in the series so far. I have read all the seven books and I must tell you that the book Prince Caspian(book) was horrible , C.S. Lewis is one of the worst fantasy-fiction writers ever born. Narnia, the books are no "Harry Potter", that is the only reason why this film grossed so low when compared to the previous film. People read the Chronicles of Narnia books only after the first film was released and they might have read Prince Caspian(book)before the release of the film and understood that it is pure shit.But Narnia is one of the last good live action movies made by Disney in the recent years (Prince of Persia was good too).

You can always count on the Disney made live-action films to be family friendly, which is a reason why I love this film even more.

The Director and the Disney team was actually highly ambitious(in the good sense). In order to make the movie more closer to the audience as a part of entertainment and to keep-up the level of drama, they introduced a stunt scene that is actually absent in the book. If you don't remember it, then it is the stunt scene that occurs in the night in the Telmarine Castle. Disney was highly praised for their creative or artistic freedom or simply innovation.

You know what the main problem of the book is, Aslan reappears in the middle of the book, so you won't feel the grief of missing him , the worst part is that the second half is almost like a musical where C.S Lewis wastes the time and ink in describing the journey of Aslan to the battle field. You would also have to bare the GOD-like exaggeration of Aslan.

In the film, the kids do show there grief when they know that they have come to Narnia after a 1000 years of Narnian time, a real fan of the film would feel sad about this, experience the grief of the kids, but in the book, they don't feel any grief or at least the author is not capable of making the reader feel sad about the faith of Narnia.