DISNEY - THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA 2:
PRINCE CASPIAN(2008)
This is just as good as the first, if not a little
better! Most of the characters that we got to know
from the first one are gone in this except the kids!
A fun watch!! A
A review from Amazon:
More exciting than The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian continues the movie
franchise based on C.S. Lewis' classic fantasy books. The movie
picks up where the first left off... sort of. It's been a year since
the Pevensie children--Peter (William Moseley), Susan(Anna
Popplewell), Edmund (Skandar Keynes), and Lucy (Georgie
Henley)--returned to England from Narnia, and they've just
about resigned themselves to living their ordinary lives. But
just like that, they're once again transported to a fantastical
land, but one with a long-abandoned castle. It turns out that
they are in Narnia again--and they themselves lived in that
castle, but hundreds of years ago in Narnia time. They've been
summoned back to help Prince Caspian (Stardust's Ben Barnes,
resembling a young, cultured Keanu Reeves), the rightful heir
to the throne who's become the target of his power-hungry
uncle, King Mraz (Sergio Castellitto). And he's not the only
one threatened: Mraz's people, the Telmarines, have pushed
all the Narnians--the talking animals, the centaurs and other
beasts, the walking trees--to the brink of extinction. Despite
some alpha-male bickering, Peter and Caspian agree to fight
Mraz alongside the remaining Narnians, including the dwarf
Trumpkin (Peter Dinklage) and the swashbuckling mouse
Reepicheep (voiced by Eddie Izzard). (Also appearing is Warwick
Davis, who was in Willow and the 1989 BBC Prince Caspian.)
But of course they most of all miss the noble lion, Aslan, who
would have never let this happen to Narnia if he hadn't
disappeared. Prince Caspian is epic, evoking memories of
Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films. (Some of the battle
elements may seem too familiar, but they were in Lewis's
book.) And it's appropriate for kids (Reepicheep could have
come out of a Shrek movie), though the tone is dark and there
is a lot of death, albeit bloodless. After two successful films,
Disney and Walden Media's franchise has proved successful
enough that many of the characters are scheduled to return
in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. --David Horiuchi