Movie review

[etumukutenyak]

I suppose I should review the movie we saw yesterday. I was looking forward to seeing Prince Caspian, and I have to say I was a bit disappointed.

Well, I did fall asleep during the movie, so clearly it was not as compelling as the first movie. Prince Caspian, as played by Ben Barnes, was just a little bland. I'm not sure what kind of accent he was supposed to have, and it was a wee bit intermittent, so I was really not sure why he needed an accent. His dad, whatever his name was, was nicely evil. The badger was funny, and Peter Dinklage shone as a grumpy dwarven warrior of Narnia. He does glowering so well.

Edmund was reformed and did not have any evil adventures; Peter and Susan were on the bland side of things too. I dislike it when characters repeatedly make errors of judgement, and Lucy kept annoying me with her "innocence", constantly approaching beings as if she could immediately trust them. Of course, that is what she did from the very beginning, but one would think she'd have learned from that bear.

Maybe I'm just too skeptical and cynical to believe anyone could remain so innocent.

The battles were decently plotted and choreographed. New Zealand is still a beautiful country. This was filmed also in Poland and Slovenia, which were also beautiful. Reepicheep was bigger than I'd imagined, and voiced by Eddie Izzard, which is cool.

Overall, not as good as the first movie.

Comments

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I read the Narnia books a couple of times before the Christian symbolism got to me, and both times, I liked Prince Caspian the least. I suppose they had to make it anyway.

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

IIRC, there are some subplots in PC which were more interesting than the main character himself. But that might be just me. ;-)