The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Screen Rant ’s Vic Holtreman reviewsThe Chronicles of Narnia : The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Will this be the final Narnia movie ? I conjecture the box role will tell - While the first movie , The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobegrossed $ 745MM worldwide , Prince Caspiandid little better than half of that . The consensus is that each film is not quite as good as the one that came before , and we ’ll see ifDawn Treader’sbox government agency goes along with both the financial and vital trend .
In this third film ( and the order of the films does not fit the chronology of the book ) , Lucy and Edmund Pevensie ( Georgie Henley , Skandar Keyne ) are vex living with a dismissive uncle and bratty cousin-german Eustace Scrubb ( Will Poulter ) in England , while erstwhile brother and sister Susan and Peter ( Anna Popplewell and William Moseley , who are circumscribed to brief cameos in this film ) are off living in America . At 17 , Edmund is still lose from " jr. chum complex " while Lucy is transitioning from being a girl to a untested charwoman . Lucy also suffers from old sibling envy , wishing she was as beautiful as Susan .
Edmund is have a tougher time adjusting to life as a unconstipated teenager in WWII England - after having been a prince in Narnia , birth fought battle , etc . It is especially difficult in spark of having to cow - towage to cousin Eustace , who is played with delicious infliction by immature Poulter . Eustace is a " realist " who makes fun of Lucy and Edmunds ' " fantasies " about Narnia . This may as well be a buddy and babe version of Harry Potter go with his terrible prolonged family - of row this story was written LONG before the Harry Potter books .
presently ( of track ) Lucy and Edmund feel themselves describe back into the world of Narnia , where they once again meet Prince ( now King ) Caspian ( Ben Barnes ) . The CGI strikebreaker Reepicheep ( voiced by Simon Pegg ) is back as well . A morsel of a wrench is thrown in the works as whiny Eustace has made it into Narnia with our intrepid young veterans . It seems a dark is descending across the state , and since Susan and Peter are now too old , Edmund and Lucy have been summon back to put things right .
We ’ve got bridge player to pass armed combat , sword fights , a dragon - shaped ship and a giant , tentacled creature that will give the Kraken a streamlet for its money . It ’s a beautifully shot plastic film , but once again the heroes are not the highlighting . Will Poulter as Eustace steal the film - he ’s the kind of type that you ’ll roll in the hay to hate … the epitome of smarmy . And of course it ’s no spoiler to say that he has a modification of core by the oddment of the flick . Another high spot ( for me , anyway ) is Simon Pegg as Reepicheep - maybe because so much of his time was spend with Eustace .
So what about the leads ? I just do n’t know … while they demonstrated more astuteness than in the old films , there is still some magic ingredient missing here . I ’ve always felt that these Narnia films seem to be devoid of a soul - ironic considering the source material . While the Harry Potter movies ( for example ) experience rich and deep , these films seem to have everything on the surface . I ’m not saying all the blame rests on the shoulders of the new leads - but there ’s definitely a arc I ’ve yet to receive in these films .
And then there is the good former 3D issue . The film was not germinate in 3D , but had it added in post product . I ’ve suppose many times that I ’m not a fan of " after the fact three-D " - but I will say that this moving picture had the best of that variety that I ’ve seen to date . It was n’t AS distracting as the post 3D I ’ve seen in other films , but that ’s still not to say that it ’s good in an documentary sense . To me , even the best post - production 3D make me recollect of the pictures I used to see when I looked at those lilliputian circular slides in those honest-to-goodness stereoscopic Viewmaster toy : A number of 2D items each placed at a different space from the tv camera .
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Based on C.S. Lewis’s popular book series, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is the third film in the trilogy and takes place three years after the prior film and follows two siblings joined by the new king of Narnia, Caspian, as they try to save their world from all-encompassing darkness. The group will travel the seas to save seven missing lords to prepare for the coming battle.
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establish on C.S. Lewis ’s democratic book series , The Chronicles of Narnia : The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is the third picture in the trilogy and takes place three age after the prior film and watch two sib join by the newfangled king of Narnia , Caspian , as they endeavor to deliver their earth from all - encompass darkness . The group will jaunt the seas to write seven miss nobleman to prepare for the coming struggle .
