As a child, I fondly remember reading C.S. Lewis “The Chronicles of Narnia” with my father. Most memorable was the first book, “The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe.” The rest is admittedly a blur. So, while no doubt many of you who read this will share contentment and discontentment with the adaptation of Lewis’ world to the big screen, my objective in viewing it was how the film worked…as a film. For Walden Media’s third outing (and its first without Disney), I had a mainly great experience with it. The story in “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” is themed around temptation. A mysterious green smoke is swallowing people whole and transporting them to a place called “Dark Island” where they mainly have…just disappeared. Our heroes are led into the journey by the King “formerly known as Prince” Caspian, who has thankfully dropped his Spanish style accent and stuck with an English accent. The heroes – now Lucy and Edmund – have entered Narnia through a painting that happened to also take their annoying cousin Eustace with them.
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