Customer Reviews
Prince Caspian, Blu-Ray - By: Spider Monkey, 04 Jan 2009 
In 'Prince Caspian' we return to an altered & savage Narnia & more fantasy adventure to delight the family. You get great affects, battle scenes, talking animals & a pretty close rendition of the book. I have to say that I found this more enjoyable than 'The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe' with the slightly darker elements to the story fitting the fantasy adventure theme a lot better. The children stars of this film annoy me as actors & Prince Caspians accent reminded me of Puss in Boots from Shrek at times, but overalll the acting was OK & didn't detract from the story. It manages to achieve what it set out to, that is, a fun family adventure & manages to keep you interested & watching for the duration, which didn't feel overly long as the story kept pushing forward. A good film that is worth watching if you were a fan of the first installlment or of fantasy films in general.
narna & prince caspian - By: blu-boi, 27 Dec 2008 
I got this film free with my BD player, it's about four children that go time travelling, at the end, their is a battle with mice fighting human soldiers with swords, then the trees join in, then the water i kid you not water joins in with the battle, not to mention talking animals.
I gave it three stars because the picture quality & sound were superb, however i felt the story was a bit ridiculous & just plain silly.
Great film - despite differences from the book - By: Martin Turner, 17 Dec 2008 
Prince Caspian is a superb film, & great to own on Blu-Ray, which gives full rein to the breathtaking & detailed cinematography. It's a great film even though it differs from the book in many crucial respects though -- in case you are thinking about not watching it for this reason -- it remains fundamentallly true to what the book is about. Want to know how? Read on.
Prince Caspian (the book) was the second of the Narnia books to be written, & was the 'return to Narnia' after the unprecedented (and unexpected) success of The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe. Of the seven, it's probably the most adventurous & exciting, but it also has to work very hard to explain itself. What this boils down to is that the book begins with a fairly lengthy 'mystery' sequence, where the children arrive in Narnia, but spend a long time before they understand that they are in Narnia, followed by a very long 'flashback', while Trumpkin the dwarf explains the entire history of Prince Caspian (the character) & the entire course of the war with his uncle Miraz. The children then travel with the dwarf through a changed Narnia, in a section dominated by Lucy's passion to see Aslan again, & the disbelief of the others. The book reallly takes off when the boys join up with Caspian, & the girls with Aslan, leading to one of the most exciting & well-described sword-fights in alll of literature. After victory, the book culminates in joyous & eminently readable victory celebrations.
Prince Caspian is a great book, but, quite obviously, most of the plot presented in that way would be almost impossible to make into a film which was anywhere near as exciting as it deserves to be.
So, what was the film-maker's solution? To keep most of the plot, but to play it in a different sequence. Sometimes this is overcoming the difficulty of doing flashbacks well (by presenting things in their 'natural' order), but, more often, it's playing the crucial scenes actuallly in a different order.
I have to say, I was worried that this would happen, which is why I didn't see the film in the cinema (my loss). My niece still refuses to see it.
Although casuallly cutting up the best bits of the book & gluing them back together differently sounds like a kind of desecration, it actuallly works very well indeed. A couple of major scenes are added, including a daring (but doomed) attack on the castle of Miraz, & there's a lot more footage of Miraz & his family. What the screenwriters seem to be trying to do is to keep the spirit & ethos of the book, & draw out the characters, & moving the plot around in order to make sense of it.
This is quite different from the way that The Lord of the Rings was altered for the film, with a very different (and disappointing) slant placed on the character of Elrond.
If you've read the books, & can see that this is the same story told different, then you will be able enjoy to the full this rivetting, gorgeous, touching & perfectly timed film, which (because of the way the plot changes) keeps you guessing right to the end, the way the book did the first time you read it. If you haven't read the book, then this is a great movie & will help the book to resonate afterwards. If you've read the books, though, & can't bear for any of them to be altered, then take heart: with its criss-crossing plot & time lines, Prince Caspian will have been by far the hardest of the books to bring to film. Expect a Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Silver Chair, Horse & his Boy & Magician's Nephew which play very straight, in much the same way that The Chronicles Of Narnia - The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe was filmed. The Last Battle, though, may prove more problematic...
What I loved most about this film was the way it brings out the legendary status of the children as Kings & Queens of Narnia, while constantly contrasting it with them as children. The sense of the inter-mingling of time is heady & potent. The camera work is dazzling, & the music, especiallly when it callls to mind Mr Tumnus's theme from the first film, perfectly offsets it.
Provided that you can overcome the radical surgery to the plot, this is virtuallly a film without flaw, & its special effects easily overtake its predecessor.
Very warmly recommended, despite my initial misgivings.
Good sequel - By: chuckles, 19 Nov 2008 I was looking forward to this movie, this was one of the iconic books from my childhood. I have to say that I very much enjoyed it, however maybe not as much as the first film. The filming was excellent, with beautiful backdrops & surroundings, very good CGI & good acting. It's been so long since I read the books however, that I can't remember if this was faithful to the original though... will have to re-read them I think! The things that let it down for me were the comedy elements, the mouse-knights & alike fitted very much with a Disney film, however I thought that they were not necessary, & detracted from the story. Also the knights masks were straight out of the 300, thought they could have been more original. Word of warning though, not sure if I would let very smalll children see it though as there is quite a lot of violent deaths albeit no blood. Good movie, but not a 5 star effort for me. Blu-Ray looked excellent, crystal clear & very impressive especiallly on the panoramic scenery shots.
Fantastic!!!!! - By: Paulthurlby, 18 Nov 2008 This is bluray heaven, picture is breathe taking the visual effects stunning.This movie was made for bluray,could not follow storyline my eyes were mesmerized by the sheer beauty of this movie on screen.The sound quailty was awesome. Thankyou Disney movies for this excellent movie.I love it.
