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It is a AWESOME movie. I would watch it all day if I could. I am ten and I thought the movie was AWESOME. It has lots of action in it and it is a fun move.
Element of surprise intact: the castle defenders were supposed to be sleeping, yet here here they all were suited up lickety-split in chain mail.3. The gryphons should have been lending some formidable assist, yet after depositing their cargo, they pretty much disappeared.5. But the thing that had me checking out emotionally was the assault on the castle about midway through the movie. The soldiers would have been freaked out seeing centaurs and talking mice.4. A key commander, Prince Caspian, knew the castle grounds intimately and would have been able to brief his troops superbly.Because I couldn't take the result of this battle seriously, I was unable to take the rest of the movie seriously and so kept watching the minutes count down until it ended. I just wasn't buying that the army of beasts and birds would have been repulsed:1. The main army was supposed to have been bivouacked somewhere, leaving the castle thinly defended.2.
Instead they found someone who felt a need to make it a nonstop meaningless sequence of stupid fight scenes.If the movie is only 10% based on the book, don't use it's name. Basically this was a scifi channel movie (ie terrible) with better actors and special effects.Whoever was responsible for this movie should be tied to a pole and whipped, then allowed to go back and play dungeons and dragons by himself in the basement.They could have found someone who could resonate with the book and bring it forward in a new light. Try and sell your sad movie on it's own merits. 90% of it was not in the book. Strong misunderstanding of the book or it's themes.
I loved the land they were in, the woods were beautiful. Anyone who liked the first movie will love the sequel. I loved reading these books and I loved the movie. The cast are very good actors and the costumes were awesome. The villains are wonderfully created and the Pevensie children are as good as in the first movie. Prince Caspian is an adventure and an action movie. It's a great sequel to the first.
Dead. So much for 'Queen Susan the Gentle', and we're hardly twenty minutes into the film. You don't get the sense that he loves Old Narnia, merely that he wants to be king and get even with Miraz. I'll try to keep it short. In the book, Susan merely shoots the soldier's helmet, and, being superstitious, he and his companion jump out and swim to shore.
So, after a neat swordfight between him and Edmund, they go off to find Caspian. Then they meet Caspian (whom Susan and Lucy aren't supposed to meet till the end), and immediately Susan is looking admiringly at the prince. Edmund and Lucy were the only ones who seemed to be in character most of the time, but even they didn't redeem the movie, so I give it one star. Okay, then we go to the Pevensies, who are at a huge train station (very unlike Lewis's 'empty, sleepy country railway station') and the first thing we know, Susan (who has a bad attitude) has lied to a boy about her name, and Peter has gotten into a fight. Caspian calms them down and gives a stupid, politician like speech, full of the required, cheesy sounding promises, that he will give them back their land if they will help him become king. The movie goes very quickly on to them finding their old castle, now in ruins, and then rescuing a dwarf from drowning.
Cornelius (whom I do not think is ever named except by the title 'Professor' or 'Doctor') and he is helped to escape. Meanwhile, Caspian has escaped from the soldiers for a moment, banged his head on a tree limb, and finds himself at the doorway of a small cave. Dear me, I'm already getting long winded, and we've hardly begun. Why couldn't they be descended from English pirates just as easily).who is, for some reason, running away because his uncle, for some reason, wants to kill him. He was supposed to show them the way down, and guides them down.
It seems that he didn't even believe in them until he met the badger and dwarf (compare to the book, where 'thinking and dreaming about the old days, and longing that they might come back, filled nearly all his spare hours'). Just some guy with a Spanish accent (where'd they come up with that. Nikabrik is extremely ugly (do dwarves have to be that ugly. I think the battle is awesome, and the four Pevensies are played very well and spiritedly. In the book he's a noble animal, who is very loyal to Caspian. But I still liked it.
Here's my quarrels with it:It begins with Caspian being awoken by Dr. So, after that, obviously they decide to help him. and our whole family watched it, and liked it. I had high hopes for this movie after thoroughly enjoying The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. We find out that Trumpkin has been captured by Miraz' men, and he stands before Miraz and the council. My dad took me and my sister to see Prince Caspian in the theatre, and, although I had already heard about the kiss, I was pleasantly surprised by the movie. Then there's a really dumb place where he's at the Dancing Lawn, a very dark, horrid looking place, if you ask me, with a bunch of centaurs and animals are pointing at him and shouting.
Aslan is conspicuously absent to those of us who know and love the story. We find Caspian in the cave; he wakes up and hears the badger and Nikabrik talking about him. They go on with him, and from there the story plunges straight downhill: the disastrous raid on the castle, Peter's horrible attitude, Caspian's horrible attitude, Susan's extremely out of character fighting (and screaming to the other archers), the long, drawn out Lord of the Ring's-esque battle, oh, I could go on and on. He is not a good actor, if you ask me, but maybe it's just his script. I can't stand that Peter is immature, right up to the end, where he gives Caspian his sword, with a 'You don't need us anymore', and then they leave. Here, he's a slapstick. In the old BBC Narnia movies, they looked perfectly fine without being made to look so extremely ugly), and bitter.
The Telmarines are still shooting at him, but suddenly they begin to fall down. We were given the movie before it came out on DVD in the U.S. Then they are pulled dramatically into Narnia, and arrive on the seashore. Although LWW does deviate from the book in some ways, (in spite of the casting for the voice of Aslan and the Witch), it stays true to the spirit and the overall plot line of the book. The badger is there completely for comic relief. Then I watched it again, and I totally disliked it that time.
He gets out of the castle and is chased by Telmarine soldiers; this is not in the book, where Caspian's escape, besides happening later on, is done in secrecy and is not found out for a day or two. Since I haven't watched this in a while, I can't remember when exactly all the cutting between the Pevensies and Caspian is, so I'll do my best. Trumpkin runs out as the Telmarines find them, and Caspian is knocked out by Nikabrik. Now, don't stop reading. I can't remember if Edmund believes her in here, I think he does, but the rest do not, and they go on. The Pevensies row down the river, then get out and go on foot. Of course, it's Reepicheep, and after he's finished off the soldiers, he knocks Caspian down and is about to kill him, but the badger intervenes. Trufflehunter is hit, and Caspian does a very brave (and completely out of movie.character) action, and goes back and picks up the badger.
We go back to Peter and Co., who are confronted with a high cliff that they nearly fall off of, and Lucy sees Aslan. Two dwarfs rush out to kill him, and he, for no apparent reason, blows the horn that Cornelius gave him, despite the fact that it was supposed to be blown at a completely different time, and for completely different reasons (there are, apparently, no reasons at all in the movie for this action). By that time, I was beginning to realize that it wasn't as great as I had thought (in part due to my brother, who pointed some things out). The dwarf turns out to be an idiotic, sour, ugly, bratty thing called Trumpkin, very unlike the lovable dwarf from the books. Lucy has a dream about Aslan coming to her, and then next day, after deciding that maybe she was right (they can't go the way they wanted because the Telmarines are there), they go back and Lucy finds the way down into the ravine. Then we watched it again.
Caspian convinces them that he is not going to do harm to them, and they go off into the forest, where they are found by Telmarine soldiers and shot at. All he does is get on my nerves through the whole movie. Why do we care about Caspian. In the movie, she actually shoots the man.
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