Review of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) by Tiernans. — 14 May 2008

Prior to actual screening, the trailer impressed on me that Prince Caspian borrows heavily or perhaps 'rips off' from The Lord of the Rings films, masterpieces of film technique to be sure. Not surprising, but very underwhelming.

Swooping vistas and flying creatures, aerial wideshots of warriors and matted battles..ect. Unfortunately, I'm not really all that enthused. What is up with the summer blockbuster trailers this year? Most of them have simply failed to impress.

It's like every attempt was made to pack every CGI artifice contained in the film into a two minute capsule with no attempt to preview an actual comprehensible plot. It's not hard to achieve without dropping any spoilers.

This has been going on for far too long. CGI is no longer novel, and selling hype based wholly on digital spectacle and such is all a bit numbing and ordinary now. These trailers should be convincing me that there's a film to be found somewhere in the mishmash of noisy action.