Review of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) by Br. — 08 Jun 2008

I was truly disappointed by this movie. The first half was pretty good, in that it was a little more serious than the first, and yet it also had several funnier moments than the first as well. It really could have become something great, but then in the second half, the director seemed to have taken a bad cue from Lord of The Rings and turned the entire movie into an action flick.

Now, don't get me wrong, I LOVE LOTR, but this movie seemed to try to imitate it in that the entire last hour of this film was just one big battle after another, all strung together by meaningless and not thought out bits of dialog.

It even seemed that they were trying to extend the movie just for time's sake, because there was even a 15 minute long scene that, though I won't spoil it, was not in the book, was utterly pointless (it showed nothing about the characters you didn't already know), and it just didn't fit the Narnia vibe at all.

Overall, for every plot hole in the movie, the characters (especially Aslam) gave some nonsensical speech which, when thought about, had no rational at all, and just didn't make sense. Overall, I was thoroughly disappointed by this all-too-long movie's second half, and I thought it was a far fall from the, though not perfect, much better first film.