Just recently watched Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader and, as expected, it did not disappoint! Ever since watching the first movie, I have persistently waited for the upcoming sequels and knew that the next would be better and more interesting.
The Chronicles of Narnia, written by C.S. Lewis, tells the many stories of children who come from our world and is magically transported to Narnia to help its land in battling evil forces that threaten it. In all the seven books in the series, it mostly has the Pevensie siblings as protagonists of the story, with the exception from his fifth book 'The Horse and his Boy', it features a different hero and one that does come from Narnia itself. Recurring elements include talking animals, magical phenomenon, numerous mystical places, the Good vs. Evil archetypal plot and, of course, the Lion Aslan.
So far, Walden Media has presented three films, 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe', 'Prince Caspian' and 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'. Hollywood, of course, has done some revisions but only for the sake of filling censored gaps C.S. Lewis failed to write in his book. You see, Lewis was writing for children and so he didn't depict any violent situations that should describe a certain event. For instance, in the 'Lion'; in the film, the directors were ever okay in showing the big, climactic battle of Peter and Aslan's Army versus the White Witch's, while in his book, he emphasized more on how Susan and Lucy went back to the Witch's castle to rescue the prisoners and didn't go into full detail of the battle.
There are more actually in all of the movies, but I think the scriptwriters of Nania films did a good job of making the Narnia plot more solid and intense and un-Fairy Tale-ish, making the audience (me included) feel the grand scale of the adventures of the Pevensie children.
Narnia, unlike traditional fairy tales, has taken different folklores ad myths to a whole new level of adventurous spirit, emphasizing that children, no matter the age, do have the abilities to do the most impossible possible. And perhaps Narnia would have another need of them when the time comes again...
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