See I have now seen it and... my very strong feeling was that they broke the book. They broke it into itty bitty pieces, picked up 5 of them and made the rest of the story up.
They broke the notion of Narnia (no snogging, no people angsting about avenging Dad, no moody adolescents), they broke characterisations (Peter, Susan and Caspian most notably) and they put in an entirely silly, unnecessary action sequence (there's lots of action in the book they left out - why invent some?)
Plus a lot of the battles were just silly. No commander is going to open big tunnels into their fortress for a temporary advantage and archers don't indulge in hand to hand fighting like that. Or at least not for long. If you're going to break the book, you ought to be able to come up with something better than that.
In other words... I am not granting it an "okay" rating.
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Date: 2008-06-15 11:31 am (UTC)They broke the notion of Narnia (no snogging, no people angsting about avenging Dad, no moody adolescents), they broke characterisations (Peter, Susan and Caspian most notably) and they put in an entirely silly, unnecessary action sequence (there's lots of action in the book they left out - why invent some?)
Plus a lot of the battles were just silly. No commander is going to open big tunnels into their fortress for a temporary advantage and archers don't indulge in hand to hand fighting like that. Or at least not for long. If you're going to break the book, you ought to be able to come up with something better than that.
In other words... I am not granting it an "okay" rating.