Alright, here it is. I know that (those of you who know me) you've been wondering where it is. So now, I present to you:
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Prince Caspian: A movie review.
First of all, I would like you all to note that I am probably one of the biggest self-proclaimed Narnia-Nerds that you'll ever meet. That said, there's two ways to look at the show: One is as just a movie, the other is in comparison to the book. I will try to be as fair to both sides as I can.
Where to begin.... When we went to the show for the first time (we went to the midnight opening!!), I was so busy saying things like, "Ugh, that's wrong." " THAT'S wrong." " What is up with that??!!" " Ex-cuuuuuuuuuuu-se me??" " What happened to this?" But when I watched it a second time, I was able to enjoy it more as a movie, but sadly, not necessarily as Narnia.
*SPOILER**SPOILERS**SPOILERS!!!*
One of the problems I had with the movie was how quickly it moved in some scenes, and dragged on in others. For instance, the setting up of the plot was about ten minutes total, from where the movie went straight into battle scenes, arguments, and whatever else. The night raid & the closing battle seemed to drag on for much longer than I deemed necessary.
Another thing (there's so many! I'll have to be brief. Maybe I'll split this into two parts...) The portrayal of Peter. I was rather upset by the way they changed his character. Actually, to be fair, they didn't actually change his character, they simply, caricatured certain faults. (He's rather a Gary Stu in the book...). To be blunt, they made him arrogant. Basically, "I'm right, I'm king, you're wrong, you're prince." That's how I interpreted what was going on between Caspian & Peter. The latter was trying to be king again, when it wasn't his time. Quite frankly, I was wondering what happened to, "We didn't come to take your place, you know, but to put you into it." (Prince Caspian, Chapter 12, pg 184) I suppose they did thus to make Peter more "real", and they could add some heated arguments throughout the movie
And dear Reepicheep. I was ecstatic that they made him similar in appearance as to his character in the book, but oh dear: What did they do to his character?? His personality?? All out the window for sarcasm. I loved the way Reep was always for honor and defending his people. I don't know, maybe it was his pride I found interesting. But he has always been my favorite talking animal of Narnia. (Come on girls, we know that if Reepicheep were a man in our world, we'd all want to marry him.) But in the movie they just made him darned sarcastic all the time!! It was funny the first time, but then...
As this is already longer than I had planned,I will continue in part two of this review.
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Hi! I found your blog on The Real Katie's blog (Shakespeare and Showtunes). We also have blog together at katiextwo.blogspot.com.
I feel the same way about PC. It's a great, well-made movie and a lot of fun, but they could have done a better job about keeping it close to the book. I'm a HUGE Narnia fan, I've read the books a hundred times, and I was a little disappointed. Don't get me wrong, I love the movie, but it has some major flaws. Like Reep! Oh Reepicheep! He is hilarious as a sarcastic mouse but they should have kept him the way he was. Similar case with Trumpkin, although not as noticeable. I am glad they kept some of the DLF lines in though! :-D
The whole Caspian/Susan thing is cute, but they didn't really need it. They just threw it in there to appeal to people who like to have something to go "Awwww...." about during the movie. Which is pretty much everybody, but still...
I didn't like Peter in this. At all. Peter the Magnificent lost a lot of his magnificence. :( He was such a.... baby! It was sad.
But Edmund.... I have to say, Edmund was so cool! It was nice how they really showed how he had grown up and changed since his first experiences in Narnia, since we only get to see a little of that in the first movie. Lucy is the same sweet, innocent, adorable girl we all love. I just want to hug her. And they did a good job in the beginning showing that Susan is definitely growing up by putting that obviously interested boy in, with her being so NOT interested. "Yes, I like to be alone." haha.
All in all, it's a very good movie by itself, not so great compared to the book. I'm interested to see how Dawn Treader turns out. It's my favorite of the books and will, I think, require a lot of special effects.
Narnia rules!
-Katie the Koolest
yaya, but you have to admit that peter was WAY cute!!! and so was Caspian! and while I'm at it, Edmund wasn't so bad either... hehe ;-P Sorry i can't feel for you on this one tweesa, I'm not what you'd call a "narnia-nerd" I've read 2 of them . wait, i read half of Prince Caspian, so 2 and a half. The horse and his boy (i liked that one) and the lion the witch and the wardrobe. so ya, sorry!! but you have some good points... -Becca
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