I have only seen the first Narnia movie and am sad to say that this movie didn't hold the same amount of epicness as that movie. In fact, you could even call it generic to the point in which if you replace all the Narnia characters with original characters, you won't know the difference. In fact, if this wasn't even a Narnia book/film, you wouldn't tell the difference.
The plot is your generic "collect the seven MacGuffins to defeat the Big Bad", whose final battle isn't as climatic as the first one. If you've seen the scene from the first Ghostbusters film where the Staypuff Marshmellow Man appears, you will know exactly what I am talking about. There are also some subplots that either go nowhere or are forgotten at one point and then picked up in another. It's like if someone took a TV show, took every single episode (each with a different plot) from it, and tried to make a Compilation Movie out of it, and failed. It almost feels like an adventure show in the nineties, or if someone made Star Trek but had the ship travel to islands and not planets.
One part I do like is Eustace. He simply steals the show. Where as Lucy and Edmund are accustomed to Narnia, Eustace isn't. Which leads to many funny moments in the film, including a scene where he tries to talk to a normal bird, and is made fun of by a minotaur. He's pretty much what would happen if you put Kyon in Middle Earth. His voice would have been annoying, but instead sounds oddly awesome. If this was an attempt to make The Scrappy, they failed epically.
All and all, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader isn't exactly the epic Narnia sequel one would hope for. If you're a hardcore Narnia fan, this is for you. If you're expecting epicness, give this a pass. If you're into an adventure with several moments of comedy and a feel for 90s style story telling, check it out. If you just want to see a movie, this is a good movie for you to watch.
Sea. The Final Frontier.
I have only seen the first Narnia movie and am sad to say that this movie didn't hold the same amount of epicness as that movie. In fact, you could even call it generic to the point in which if you replace all the Narnia characters with original characters, you won't know the difference. In fact, if this wasn't even a Narnia book/film, you wouldn't tell the difference.
The plot is your generic "collect the seven MacGuffins to defeat the Big Bad", whose final battle isn't as climatic as the first one. If you've seen the scene from the first Ghostbusters film where the Staypuff Marshmellow Man appears, you will know exactly what I am talking about. There are also some subplots that either go nowhere or are forgotten at one point and then picked up in another. It's like if someone took a TV show, took every single episode (each with a different plot) from it, and tried to make a Compilation Movie out of it, and failed. It almost feels like an adventure show in the nineties, or if someone made Star Trek but had the ship travel to islands and not planets.
One part I do like is Eustace. He simply steals the show. Where as Lucy and Edmund are accustomed to Narnia, Eustace isn't. Which leads to many funny moments in the film, including a scene where he tries to talk to a normal bird, and is made fun of by a minotaur. He's pretty much what would happen if you put Kyon in Middle Earth. His voice would have been annoying, but instead sounds oddly awesome. If this was an attempt to make The Scrappy, they failed epically.
All and all, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader isn't exactly the epic Narnia sequel one would hope for. If you're a hardcore Narnia fan, this is for you. If you're expecting epicness, give this a pass. If you're into an adventure with several moments of comedy and a feel for 90s style story telling, check it out. If you just want to see a movie, this is a good movie for you to watch.