by Sven » May 16th, 2008, 6:32 pm
She and I went to the 10am show this morning. I wore my 2456317 shirt, She wore her Aslan earrings.
My take:
For anyone looking for a clean, family-friendly action movie, it was excellent. It's to be hoped that anyone that sees the movie with those expectations will be inspired to go read the book.
For anyone looking for a movie version of C. S. Lewis' Prince Caspian, not very good, alas. The best you could say is 'inspired by Prince Caspian'. The acting was mostly ok, Peter Dinklage was pretty good as Trumpkin, and Sergio Castellitto really chewed the scenery up as King Miraz (which sounds bad, but the part really required that style of Charlton Heston scenery chewing). The only truly awful bit for me was that the last two minutes of the movie, for some inexplicable reason, the soundtrack was given over to bizarre elevator music with lyrics. I suspect the songwriter was somebody's brother-in-law, there certainly couldn't have been any artistic reason for including it.
Rat! he found breath to whisper, shaking. Are you afraid?
Afraid? murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love.
Afraid! Of Him? O, never, never! And yet -- and yet -- O, Mole, I am afraid!
Then the two animals, crouching to the earth, bowed their heads and did worship.