by Timothy Schnieders

Created on: July 01, 2008

Movie Review : The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

My wife and I had the pleasure of attending the evening showing of the new movie The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian with our church's youth group last Friday evening.

The youth group had been working hard for weeks studying the first films Christian values and subtle biblical metaphors' to hype themselves for the release of the second movie Prince Caspian.

In this adaptation of the second installment in the C. S. Lewis series The Chronicles of Narnia, readers of the book may notice several differences from the books story line, but the basic plot and moral values are still intact.

The movie starts with a son being born to Miraz thus giving him an heir to his throne, so he orders his soldiers to kill Prince Caspian in his sleep to allow his son's future right to the throne as king of Narnia. Prince Caspian is quickly informed of this by his professor, and he flees the castle in the night into the woods. There he is hunted down by Miraz's soldiers, the prince blows on the magic horn he is given to summon help, thus inadvertently summoning the four Pevensie children to return to Narnia as the Kings and Queens of the old kingdom. To fight along side Prince Caspian and the wondrous creatures of Narnia in battle to reclaim the kingdom from the tyrannical and murderous Telmarines who savagely had driven the creatures of Narnia into hiding centuries before.

This film has several grand scale battles with dazzling special effects and choreography, far more in depth than the first film. Its moral values can be taken to heart in several scenes as each person starts to doubt the Lion Aslan will return to save them. Through out the film young Lucy excitedly shouts out how she can see Aslan in the distance, but the other children can't see him. When she finally encounters him towards the end of the film Aslan asks her why she didn't keep looking for him when the others doubted her. She responds with "Cause I was afraid they would still make fun of me", which hits to the point of why most people don't share or show their Faith in Jesus do to the fact that they will be teased by non believers.

The film also touches on vengeance several times as Prince Caspian slowly learns that Miraz had His father killed so he could claim his throne, thus driving Caspian to want to kill Miraz at several points as he is blinded by rage. In the end when Peter defeats Miraz in a sword fight he offers Caspian the chance to kill Miraz and

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