(Warning: Contains Spoilers)

It’s been three years.

I‘ve been looking forward to seeing The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (PC) for three years. When I heard that they were making the first movie, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (LWW), I was very excited and looked forward to seeing it, and the ones that would proceed after the first.

The first film, LWW, was very well done, and followed the book quite nicely, only adding a scene now and then.

C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia was a classic, even at the time it was written, but has become even more popular and well-known since Disney and Walden Media paired up to bring it to the big screen. Now, the second installment of the Chronicles has been released – and is playing all over the nation.

Yes, three years ago, I was quite excited, but as I sat down in the theater this afternoon – that excitement was no longer there – it had vanished. I found that I really wasn’t ready for it to start when it did. At the beginning there is no intro – it just starts.

Combined with funny one-liners, and plenty of fighting, the movie was quite far from the book. With many of the scenes having been added to the storyline, it just wasn’t the same as the sweet book.

Of course, Hollywood couldn’t pass up this great chance to elaborate on the evil side and make it far more dark. The scene with the hag and werewolf, are, in fact, very disturbing and gave me a terrible feeling inside, and did the same to the others that were watching PC with me.

As I had heard rumored, it is true. Caspian and Susan kiss. The end of the movie was approaching, and I was thinking “Yes! Haha! That scene was deleted!” But then, as they were saying good-bye, they did the terrible deed. I’m quite put out.

They changed the look of Aslan – he was a bit cartoonish – no longer majestic, as in the first film of the Chronicles. It almost seemed like they threw his character into the movie because they had to. He was a side character – and was hardly included in the film.

This is definitely not a great family film, I do not recommend young children seeing this.

In the film, they did not give you the time to get to know and love the characters – most of the movie was just fighting. The dialogue was short, and mostly one-liners – no interesting conversations.

This film – while entertaining – left me a bit disappointed. I was hoping for a better treatment of C.S. Lewis’ Prince Caspian.

(Please understand that I am not trying to be negative. I felt that these issues needed to be addressed, and my audience warned.)

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