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Prepare To Be Dissapointed
PostedMay 17, 2008
WeekendCritic
from Louisville, KY
If you have read and fallen in love with the books before seeing this film, prepare to be quite irritated as the Old Narnians assault Miraz's Castle, using Edmund's electric torch to signal troops. I about walked out of the theater at this point, experiencing some rather savage flashbacks to when I saw the Two Towers for the first time. I don't have a problem with anything else - Peter scrapping with Caspian - fine. Susan kissing Caspian at the end - fine. All the other deviations from the story in the book seem at least halfway plausible. However, High King Peter squandering half the Old Narnians' lives in an obviously foolhardy attempt to prove his kingly wisdom in a disturbingly Bush-remeniscent preemptive strike, and Caspian in Miraz's bedchamber with Miraz's wife shooting Caspian with a crossbow, I mean come on people.
The only reason I give the film 3 stars is that so many scenes and shots were so fantastic. This has to be one of my favorite books of the series, and it was tremendous to see it come to life with such a beautiful, talented cast on the big screen.
However, Adamson and his screenwriters totally butchered the experience of all traditional Narnia-lovers who have grown up with the books and have the stories so firmly entrenched in our minds. Learn from Peter Jackson's disastrous attempts to change the story in the Two Towers - don't make radical changes to the core events in the plot! And if you do, at least don't make the principle characters go completely against their nature and do something that forever taints their image in a brutal, dark way. This story is dark enough, without having to introduce major character flaws in Peter that were never there in Lewis' story.
Overall, disgusting. I don't know if I will be able to drag myself into the theater to see this one again. Maybe I'll go get popcorn during the castle assault scene!
The only reason I give the film 3 stars is that so many scenes and shots were so fantastic. This has to be one of my favorite books of the series, and it was tremendous to see it come to life with such a beautiful, talented cast on the big screen.
However, Adamson and his screenwriters totally butchered the experience of all traditional Narnia-lovers who have grown up with the books and have the stories so firmly entrenched in our minds. Learn from Peter Jackson's disastrous attempts to change the story in the Two Towers - don't make radical changes to the core events in the plot! And if you do, at least don't make the principle characters go completely against their nature and do something that forever taints their image in a brutal, dark way. This story is dark enough, without having to introduce major character flaws in Peter that were never there in Lewis' story.
Overall, disgusting. I don't know if I will be able to drag myself into the theater to see this one again. Maybe I'll go get popcorn during the castle assault scene!
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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