Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

12/10/2010 by Leave a Comment

The new Narnia has left the mouse house and landed at Fox (and in 3D) and the results are a clumsy adventure that takes more than a couple steps back from the very good Prince Caspian.

Dropping the two older Pevensie siblings and replacing them with their annoying cousin (who’s name sounds like useless, which I couldn’t have agreed with more) was the first mistake by the film and as Lucy, Edmund, and Eustace transport to Narnia I knew this kid was going to make this a long trip.  The group hooks up with reigning ruler of Narnia, Prince Caspian, after he randomly comes across the Pevensie’s in the middle of the ocean they just transported to which they immediately take as a sign that trouble is brewing in Narnia.  Caspian is on the hunt for the Lost Swords of Narnia and the fate of his lands will become intertwined in this quest.

As the plot moves along the characters rarely discover anything about their quest and things just easily move forward as they are either given or quickly deduce their next step.   [Read more...]

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For Your Renting Pleasure

09/10/2010 by Leave a Comment

This week we’ve got one good and a whole bunch of bad (at least in my opinion), with Dorian Gray, The Joneses, The Killers, and Lie to Me: Season 1.

Rent:

Lie to Me: Season One

Now he may be no House, but Cal Lightman is another great character on TV that is easy to love for the reasons the people in the show hate him.  I mean, I wouldn’t want to be around someone who would know when I was lying every time and call me out on it.  Annoying and abrasive, but it makes for some pretty entertaining television.

The show would get old fast if it was simply about a human lie detector, but the show works because it goes much deeper than “he’s lying!  Lock him up!” Obviously not every lie is an admission of guilt, so instead they have to delve deeper into the different suspects’ histories, emotional connections to people, religions, events, and things of that nature to figure out why their face would betray a certain emotion when answering a certain question.  In other words: they might be lying, but not always for the reason you would assume. [Read more...]

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Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

06/04/2008 by Leave a Comment

The tales of Narnia continue in this follow up that is superior to the follow up, more action, more peril, darker tone, and very little Christian overtones. Prince Caspian we are quickly introduced to, and who is the current aire to the thrown of Narnia. Waiting to simply become of age to take the thrown, his uncle, Miraz, wife gives birth to his own son, instituting a coup d’etat to claim the thrown for his bloodline which involves murdering Caspian to clear the way. Narrowly escaping his death, with the help of his professor, Caspian flees to the forests which are steeped in legend and mystery when he stumbles upon a pair of dwarfs who realize who he is by a special horn on his side, which he sounds before being knocked out by one of the said dwarfs.
We then cut to the Pevensie four, who after a brief fight among Peter and some classmates in a subway station, are transported back to Narnia as the subway station dissolves around them. [Read more...]

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