The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
December 10, 2010 in theaters
This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantastic Narnian ship headed for the very edges of the world.
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"Courage, dear heart."
DID YOU KNOW?
The design of the Dawn Treader ship was inspired by real Viking longships mixed with Tolkien-era fantasy aesthetics.
THE VERDICT
Synthesized from published reviews
The third Narnia adaptation is the most visually inventive of the series, trading the battlefield scale of its predecessors for an episodic seafaring structure that allows each island to establish its own tone. The absence of Peter and Susan is felt less than expected, and Eustace Scrubb's introduction is the franchise's best character arc. The film's emotional stakes are smaller and more personal than The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which suits both the source novel and the franchise's more modest scale by this point. A modest conclusion to the theatrical run.
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