Review: The Chronicles of Nariana: Prince Caspian

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

By the time it was over, I liked it. I am a huge fan of the series and I think it is the perfect book to film series. I would like to see it a more refined and concerted effort in the films… where is Peter Jackson when you need him? But over all I thought it pulled through well.

I thought it was slow to start and awkward in the beginning. The set up for Prince Caspian was weak and unsubstantial. I would have liked to see his past and place established much cleaner, mainly the importance of the relationship with his ‘half dwarf’ professor shown firmly.

I also thought the re-introduction of the kids was also weak and sloppy. The set up that brought them to Nariana was cheesy it could have been much more graceful, not so childish. After that I thought there were only a few clunky plot points before I began to enjoy the story.

The film is beautiful. There are a few sequences that I really enjoyed. Tilda Swinton as the White Witch was definitely the highlight of the film for me. There are a few artistic choices I thought were bad, some of the creatures were very poorly done but other parts I really liked. I saw some Lord of the Rings sets mixed in there for sure.

I thought the guy who played Caspian did very good. The evil Uncle did pretty good also, but I thought that the girl who played Lucy was the only one of the kids to give a genuine performance.

The film flowed well once it got going and was over all enjoyable.