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I grew up reading C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles Of Naria and was, like everybody else, greatly looking forward to the “good” big-screen adaptations. I really enjoyed The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and had high hopes for Prince Caspian. Unfortunately, I was pretty disappointed with it.

It was a huge production and it looked amazing. The battle scenes were awesome – but they also took up the majority of the screen time, which is one of the films biggest problems. The novel is full of story and character, but the filmmakers seemed to have traded in plot and character development for really cool looking creatures. Even though I know the story very well, I wasn’t at all convinced while watching it on the big screen. I also felt that Peter and Susan (William Moseley and Anna Popplewell) had become worse actors – perhaps it’s a good thing that their characters are basically finished with.

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It felt to me like they thought that since the story is simpler, it could be breezed over. For example, I generally don’t care to see a big huge battle if I haven’t been presented with any real reasons to care about which side wins. Of course I’m not saying that they made me feel ambiguous – the Narnians are obviously the ones that I am supposed to want to win – I just feel like the filmmakers took that fact for granted. But if I was only looking for a big, loud, violent (but relatively bloodless) and huge-scaled battle/adventure film, it did the trick.

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian – based on the novel by C.S. Lewis; Screenplay by Andrew Adamson & Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely; directed by Andrew Adamson.