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| Actors: Simon Andreu, John Bach, David Bowles, Warwick Davis, Liam Neeson
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  370 reviews
Sales Rank: 5579
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 149 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: 5815400
UPC: 786936772470
EAN: 0786936772470
ASIN: B001EDOC60
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: December 2, 2008
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| • | The magical world of C.S. Lewis' beloved fantasy comes to life once again in PRINCE CASPIAN, the second installment of THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA series. Join Peter, Susan, Edmund Lucy, the mighty and majestic Aslan, friendly new Narnian creatures and Prince Caspian as they lead the Narnians on a remarkable journey to restore peace and glory to their enchanted land. Continuing the adventure of T |
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More exciting than The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian continues the movie franchise based on C.S. Lewis' classic fantasy books. The movie picks up where the first left off... sort of. It's been a year since the Pevensie children--Peter (William Moseley), Susan (Anna Popplewell), Edmund (Skandar Keynes), and Lucy (Georgie Henley)--returned to England from Narnia, and they've just about resigned themselves to living their ordinary lives. But just like that, they're once again transported to a fantastical land, but one with a long-abandoned castle. It turns out that they are in Narnia again--and they themselves lived in that castle, but hundreds of years ago in Narnia time. They've been summoned back to help Prince Caspian (Stardust's Ben Barnes, resembling a young, cultured Keanu Reeves), the rightful heir to the throne who's become the target of his power-hungry uncle, King Mraz (Sergio Castellitto). And he's not the only one threatened: Mraz's people, the Telmarines, have pushed all the Narnians--the talking animals, the centaurs and other beasts, the walking trees--to the brink of extinction. Despite some alpha-male bickering, Peter and Caspian agree to fight Mraz alongside the remaining Narnians, including the dwarf Trumpkin (Peter Dinklage) and the swashbuckling mouse Reepicheep (voiced by Eddie Izzard). (Also appearing is Warwick Davis, who was in Willow and the 1989 BBC Prince Caspian.) But of course they most of all miss the noble lion, Aslan, who would have never let this happen to Narnia if he hadn't disappeared. Prince Caspian is epic, evoking memories of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films. (Some of the battle elements may seem too familiar, but they were in Lewis's book.) And it's appropriate for kids (Reepicheep could have come out of a Shrek movie), though the tone is dark and there is a lot of death, albeit bloodless. After two successful films, Disney and Walden Media's franchise has proved successful enough that many of the characters are scheduled to return in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. --David Horiuchi
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Product Description
THE PEVENSIE SIBLINGS RETURN TO NARNIA, WHERE THEY ARE ENLISTED TO ONCE AGAIN HELP WARD OFF AN EVIL KING AND RESTORE THE RIGHTFUL HEIR TO THE LAND'S THRONE, PRINCE CASPIAN.
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 The Best Movie Ever February 1, 2010
I am ten and I thought the movie was AWESOME. It has lots of action in it and it is a fun move. I would watch it all day if I could. It is a AWESOME movie.
 for what it was, it was pretty good January 31, 2010
Caraculiambro (La Mancha and environs)
But the thing that had me checking out emotionally was the assault on the castle about midway through the movie. I just wasn't buying that the army of beasts and birds would have been repulsed:
1. The main army was supposed to have been bivouacked somewhere, leaving the castle thinly defended.
2. Element of surprise intact: the castle defenders were supposed to be sleeping, yet here here they all were suited up lickety-split in chain mail!
3. The soldiers would have been freaked out seeing centaurs and talking mice.
4. The gryphons should have been lending some formidable assist, yet after depositing their cargo, they pretty much disappeared.
5. A key commander, Prince Caspian, knew the castle grounds intimately and would have been able to brief his troops superbly.
Because I couldn't take the result of this battle seriously, I was unable to take the rest of the movie seriously and so kept watching the minutes count down until it ended.
 Abominable January 30, 2010
R. Wagner (Wisconsin)
90% of it was not in the book. Strong misunderstanding of the book or it's themes.
Basically this was a scifi channel movie (ie terrible) with better actors and special effects.
Whoever was responsible for this movie should be tied to a pole and whipped, then allowed to go back and play dungeons and dragons by himself in the basement.
They could have found someone who could resonate with the book and bring it forward in a new light. Instead they found someone who felt a need to make it a nonstop meaningless sequence of stupid fight scenes.
If the movie is only 10% based on the book, don't use it's name. Try and sell your sad movie on it's own merits.
A Terrific Sequel January 25, 2010
Island Dreamer (Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved reading these books and I loved the movie. Prince Caspian is an adventure and an action movie. It's a great sequel to the first. I loved the land they were in, the woods were beautiful. The cast are very good actors and the costumes were awesome! Anyone who liked the first movie will love the sequel. The villains are wonderfully created and the Pevensie children are as good as in the first movie.
Pathetic, Pitiful, and Sad January 23, 2010
Laura Andrews (Iowa, USA)
I had high hopes for this movie after thoroughly enjoying The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Although LWW does deviate from the book in some ways, (in spite of the casting for the voice of Aslan and the Witch), it stays true to the spirit and the overall plot line of the book. I think the battle is awesome, and the four Pevensies are played very well and spiritedly. My dad took me and my sister to see Prince Caspian in the theatre, and, although I had already heard about the kiss, I was pleasantly surprised by the movie. Now, don't stop reading. We were given the movie before it came out on DVD in the U.S. and our whole family watched it, and liked it. Then we watched it again. By that time, I was beginning to realize that it wasn't as great as I had thought (in part due to my brother, who pointed some things out). But I still liked it. Then I watched it again, and I totally disliked it that time. Here's my quarrels with it:
It begins with Caspian being awoken by Dr. Cornelius (whom I do not think is ever named except by the title 'Professor' or 'Doctor') and he is helped to escape. He gets out of the castle and is chased by Telmarine soldiers; this is not in the book, where Caspian's escape, besides happening later on, is done in secrecy and is not found out for a day or two. Why do we care about Caspian? Just some guy with a Spanish accent (where'd they come up with that? Why couldn't they be descended from English pirates just as easily?)who is, for some reason, running away because his uncle, for some reason, wants to kill him. Dear me, I'm already getting long winded, and we've hardly begun. I'll try to keep it short. Okay, then we go to the Pevensies, who are at a huge train station (very unlike Lewis's 'empty, sleepy country railway station') and the first thing we know, Susan (who has a bad attitude) has lied to a boy about her name, and Peter has gotten into a fight. Then they are pulled dramatically into Narnia, and arrive on the seashore. The movie goes very quickly on to them finding their old castle, now in ruins, and then rescuing a dwarf from drowning. In the book, Susan merely shoots the soldier's helmet, and, being superstitious, he and his companion jump out and swim to shore. In the movie, she actually shoots the man! Dead! So much for 'Queen Susan the Gentle', and we're hardly twenty minutes into the film. The dwarf turns out to be an idiotic, sour, ugly, bratty thing called Trumpkin, very unlike the lovable dwarf from the books. He is not a good actor, if you ask me, but maybe it's just his script. All he does is get on my nerves through the whole movie. So, after a neat swordfight between him and Edmund, they go off to find Caspian. Meanwhile, Caspian has escaped from the soldiers for a moment, banged his head on a tree limb, and finds himself at the doorway of a small cave. Two dwarfs rush out to kill him, and he, for no apparent reason, blows the horn that Cornelius gave him, despite the fact that it was supposed to be blown at a completely different time, and for completely different reasons (there are, apparently, no reasons at all in the movie for this action). Trumpkin runs out as the Telmarines find them, and Caspian is knocked out by Nikabrik. Since I haven't watched this in a while, I can't remember when exactly all the cutting between the Pevensies and Caspian is, so I'll do my best. The Pevensies row down the river, then get out and go on foot. We find out that Trumpkin has been captured by Miraz' men, and he stands before Miraz and the council. We find Caspian in the cave; he wakes up and hears the badger and Nikabrik talking about him. The badger is there completely for comic relief. In the book he's a noble animal, who is very loyal to Caspian. Here, he's a slapstick. Nikabrik is extremely ugly (do dwarves have to be that ugly? In the old BBC Narnia movies, they looked perfectly fine without being made to look so extremely ugly), and bitter. Caspian convinces them that he is not going to do harm to them, and they go off into the forest, where they are found by Telmarine soldiers and shot at. Trufflehunter is hit, and Caspian does a very brave (and completely out of movie!character) action, and goes back and picks up the badger. The Telmarines are still shooting at him, but suddenly they begin to fall down. Of course, it's Reepicheep, and after he's finished off the soldiers, he knocks Caspian down and is about to kill him, but the badger intervenes. Then there's a really dumb place where he's at the Dancing Lawn, a very dark, horrid looking place, if you ask me, with a bunch of centaurs and animals are pointing at him and shouting. Caspian calms them down and gives a stupid, politician like speech, full of the required, cheesy sounding promises, that he will give them back their land if they will help him become king. You don't get the sense that he loves Old Narnia, merely that he wants to be king and get even with Miraz. It seems that he didn't even believe in them until he met the badger and dwarf (compare to the book, where 'thinking and dreaming about the old days, and longing that they might come back, filled nearly all his spare hours').
So, after that, obviously they decide to help him. We go back to Peter and Co., who are confronted with a high cliff that they nearly fall off of, and Lucy sees Aslan. I can't remember if Edmund believes her in here, I think he does, but the rest do not, and they go on. Lucy has a dream about Aslan coming to her, and then next day, after deciding that maybe she was right (they can't go the way they wanted because the Telmarines are there), they go back and Lucy finds the way down into the ravine. Aslan is conspicuously absent to those of us who know and love the story. He was supposed to show them the way down, and guides them down. Then they meet Caspian (whom Susan and Lucy aren't supposed to meet till the end), and immediately Susan is looking admiringly at the prince. They go on with him, and from there the story plunges straight downhill:
the disastrous raid on the castle, Peter's horrible attitude, Caspian's horrible attitude, Susan's extremely out of character fighting (and screaming to the other archers), the long, drawn out Lord of the Ring's-esque battle, oh, I could go on and on. I can't stand that Peter is immature, right up to the end, where he gives Caspian his sword, with a 'You don't need us anymore', and then they leave. Edmund and Lucy were the only ones who seemed to be in character most of the time, but even they didn't redeem the movie, so I give it one star.
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