Review of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) by Oxana — 23 Aug 2014

The third installment in the Chronicles of Narnia - and in my opinion, not much better than the first one.

I don't know what exactly bugged me about this film. The beginning was very quick, but it did managed to introduce the current situation of our heroes Edmond, Lucy - and their cousin Eustace, who was a bit of a nuisance well over halfway through the movie. His antics were amusing, but everything gets a little stale when you've seen too much of it.

At least he got his change of heart before the end...

They meet up with old friends: Ben Barnes as Prince Caspian (still cute as a button and a delight to watch, although he had dropped the accent he had in the second movie.... I don't know what that was about since I thought it was a Telmarian thing) and Reepicheep.

The plot, this time, didn't really aim for one big battle for Narnia. I'm not sure why exactly Caspian was sailing with the Dawn Treader (maybe they said it somewhere, I may have missed it), and what he was looking for, and maybe I need another viewing of this movie to get the reason for their final battle too and what was really going on in there.

The special effects were fantastic, as before. The movie kept pushing forward all the time, showing new places, creatures and enemies, taking them through exciting adventures.

Only at some point I just couldn't feel the excitement. I could see it, hear it - but not really feel it. Like it was aimless somehow.

An okay movie, worth seeing and watching again, but on the first time at least it felt like something important was missing.

I must also confess that a few times when the music began to play, it was like they were going to play a score from "The Pirates of the Caribbean" or something, and some of the scenery was very similar to that as well...

Either way, it you're a fan of fantasy or Narnia, go see this movie.