Prince Caspian

I thought this movie was pretty good. It didn't have as much action as the movies that I really like, but it was family-friendly, and it was still pretty good. The script writers changed the story a little more than they did in "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe", but it was still a lot closer than most movies are. It's really hard to make a movie that actually follows the book closely, especially when the book is a lot of narrative like C.S. Lewis' Prince Caspian was. There were a few parts that I missed from the book, but most of the story was there, they just had to add some stuff to take up the time that the book described all that was going on. I'm not sure if I liked it or not when they made it so that Prince Caspian had a crush on Susan.. it was kinda funny, but kinda weird. It did make for a very funny line when Susan told him it would never have worked out anyway because she was 1,300 years older than him in Narnian time. I thought that was pretty funny. Really they didn't change that much, it's just that Lewis wrote things like "they battled on for hours" that then they have to make up as they go along when they write the movie. There were a few parts in some of the battles that were pretty ridiculous like Susan flinging arrows by hand that actually did some damage... but it's not supposed to be a realistic movie since it's fantasy, so I didn't mind. Hopefully they'll make the rest of the series as well! I was very pleased with this movie, and highly recommend it. The battles are far from gory, but some young children may be frightened. Other than that, anybody could watch this movie. I think it's worth going to see it on the big screen now, but if not, at least get it when it comes out on DVD, you won't regret it.