prince caspian

[swolt]

took my sisters to see it at midnight. spoilers below.





dubya. tee. eff. I haven't read the book in years but it was my favorite from the series. They jacked it up pretty hardcore and made a lame movie.

For starters, they made both Peter and Caspian assholes. Neither is fighting for Narina or the better good, each is just fighting for his own glory.
Which makes the story fall apart. Why would any of the Narinians follow either of them? They don't seem to have anything to gain AT ALL, other than a lame speech by Caspian about being free, although they seemed pretty free to begin with.
They made Caspian and all his people Spanish. It was very stupid and distracting because I couldn't figure why they had done it until the end, and then it was stupid anyway.
The White Witch shows up and Peter almost sets her free from an ice prison. Why? Because the director fucking said so, that's why. It means nothing to the plot of the movie.
And then a giant water monster thing shows up. It was very WTF?

This movie mis-fired on many levels. It was boring, the plot didn't make sense, the fighting seemed staged, and I simply did not care about any of the characters. Except Reepicheep.

Reepicheep was flat out awesome. Eddie Izzard nailed the character and every moment he was on screen I either laughed or smiled. I will see the next movie for him alone.

So my final take is, skip this one or wait for it on DVD. Not worth the price or the two and a half hours in a stuffy chair.

[meredith]

that sucks.