Just so I have this in written form - I have finished "The Horse and His Boy" and "Prince Caspian." I'm currently in the middle of "Voyage of the Dawn Treader."
I hunted down Prince Caspian on youtube and watched it...and was glad I hadn't spent the money to rent it. It was even more awful than I remembered. Compared to the book, it's absolute trash. They didn't just make Peter into a prat (and he's NOT), they made Susan into a goody-good...when she's supposed to be losing interest in the entire Narnia deal. You'd never have thought it by the interest she took in those battles. Most, by the way, never took place. The Pevensies found Aslan straight off after Lucy saw him the second time, and he sent Peter and Edmund in to deal with the hag and werewolf, and to make such battle plans in his absence as they could. There was none of this lame attacking Miraz's castle in the middle of the night and loosing half the army, much to the consternation of Peter. *sigh* I fear I'll only see Dawn Treader in order to berate it as well. I'm going to stick with my friend's opinion on this one: The Narnia Chronicles are religious books, and to pretend they aren't is to ruin them. The movies should have been made by a filmmaker who has no qualms about treating them the way the should be treated, and not making them into 'epic' action adventure films. In Narnia, the external battles are minimal; it's the internal ones that are what the stories are about. Things like obedience, faith, loyalty, and innocence. Alas, another series being ruined. :(
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You won't miss much if you skip Dawn Treader. The movie was awful.
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