Synopsis:
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is a much darker and violent sequel to the first. With many more fight scenes, scary characters and plenty of death surrounded by hate, this movie borders on a PG-13 rating. The storyline is a bit jumpy, leaving holes in the plot and not developing the characters as well as the first one did. The message of the movie is to have faith, keeping a strong Christian theme, and shows that making decisions with-out that faith is only going to bring hurt and hate.
The movie starts with the attempted assasination of Prince Caspian by his Uncle. Jumping to the children, Lucy, Edmund, Peter and Susan, they wait for a train wishing to return to Narnia. Suddenly they find themselves back in Narnia, saving the Narnians again from a world that wishes they were extinct. When the children join forces with Prince Caspian to battle his uncle for the rights to Narnia, it is Lucy who reminds them that Aslan is who they should be looking for. The others believe Aslan has abandoned them and they move forward with battles that leave many dead and wounded. In a last effort to win the war over Narnia, Lucy rides into the forest to find Aslan while the brothers and Prince Caspian wage another war against his uncle.
This movie is quite disappointing compared to the first. Viewers walk away with many questions, like how did the children live in Narnia as adults, but don't seem to remember where they lived. Why had Aslan disappeared and what exactly caused the Narnians to hide underground when the children returned to London. Why did they all have to go back in the end and why were some of the humans in Narnia asked to live in "our world". Perhaps it is a movie you have to watch several times to pick up on all the answers. In any case, if you liked the first, it is a movie worth seeing on the big screen.
