| SPOILERS!!! - The movie definitely needed some trimming. 2:00 would have been a good run time, 2:20 was overdoing it. - The ending is the most overtly religious of any recent mainstream movie, and anyone who doesn't acknowledge that is being willfully blind. This was part of Lewis' intention in writing the thing, for starters. After the mass baptism in the river, when the Peter Dinklage dwarf character kneeled to Aslan, my friend turned me to me and whispered, "Umm...did he just get saved?" - Georgie Henley (Lucy) was seriously under-used in this one. She was the heart and soul of the first movie and there was (deserved) Oscar buzz for her in the Supporting Actress category that year, though it didn't pan out in the end. - The entire "storming the castle at night" sequence was fantastic - thrilling, suspenseful, expertly choreographed. - This movie suffered drastically from the lack of Tilda Swinton, who played the most fascinating character in the first movie and was really the best thing about it. It's no accident that the one brief scene involving her in Prince Caspian is one of the best, and certainly one of the most exciting. - Speaking of which, I think the story of this one suffered greatly from the lack of a good, interesting villain. Overall, I was just about bored to tears. 5/10 |