Review of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) by Phil H — 19 Nov 2011

This looks very good, really good, despite my dislike of too much cgi this film does look and feel true. But thats it really, this is basically the same as we've seen before over and over now with other films like 'LOTR', 'Labyrinth', 'Golden Compass', 'Legend' etc...the final battle is almost the same as the third 'LOTR' movie with tree's coming alive, the atmosphere and basic heroic last stand set up, its all just unoriginal now, been done before.

The first film was nice and quite a stand alone film, this is treading the same ground but it all links together nicely with the plot and cast, there's no continuety probs, not quite sure how they get to Narnia in the first place though, kinda odd. The cast is good, cliched and run of the mill but good, although the Spanish accent thing going on with Caspian is really lame haha sounds and looks like a cheesey Zorro character lol. Its actually quite violent as well, lots of people being killed with arrows and swords, even a beheading!.

The ending is waaay too happy and clean, should of left it open for the obvious third and I hated the mouse thing...'shrek' almost popped up I think haha jesus. Its a good film, looks great and you are drawn in but its just very late and unoriginal now, the third will be even worse I'm afraid, about 5yrs ago it would have rocked ass.