I never read the book, but I certainly hope it was better. It had to be, to be the classic that it is.
While this was definitely better than Speed Racer, it was not nearly as good as the first Narnia movie, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. At least that movie had some semblance of plot, some indication that there was a real reason why the Pensevie kids were in Narnia, and things actually developed. This movie was a high-budget 2-1/2 hour episode of Itchy and Scratchy (”they fight, they fight, they fight fight fight fight fight!”).
Bad guy wants Prince dead so he can take the throne. Pensevie kids are inexplicably brought back to Narnia to help him fight. Deus ex machina in the form of Aslan saves the day. The end.
Perhaps I am expecting too much from a kids’ movie, but it is truly a sophomore slump after the first one. But really, it was just long and tiresome.
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the makers of Prince Caspian kept to the original story in a lot of ways, but then strayed in others… i had heard they were going to make it into a silly pure-action flick, but thankfully this was not the case