Home
About OFCS
Member Profiles
Schedule
Forum
Awards
OFCS Blog
O.F.C.S. Members:
Sign In
O.F.C.S. Members
Movie Overview
Cast
Georgie Henley
Skandar Keynes
William Moseley
Director
Andrew Adamson
MPAA Rating
PG - for epic battle action and violence
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
REVIEWS
NEWS
INTERVIEWS
OTHER
(1 - 38) of 38
OFCS Rating: 53% Rotten
Page
1
"Despite a casting flaw and uncomfortable pacing, 'Prince Caspian' is an epic adventure with brave characters, amazing creatures and incredible special effects."
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Betty Jo Tucker
2.5/5
"On the page, The Chronicles of Narnia thrived on fiery faith-based fantasy. On film, said belief is rendered bland."
Filmcritic.com
Bill Gibron
1.5/4
"There's something missing from this franchise, and three years ago the absence of persuasive content was baffling. Now, the clues are more apparent."
Sci-Fi Movie Page
Brian Orndorf
D+
"
Caspian
is a visual sleeper hold from frame one; a constipated effort to erect widescreen wonderment, yet the production is missing dimension and needed narrative gusto."
BrianOrndorf.com
Brian Orndorf
"Repetition is to be expected in a franchise with an audience to please."
PopMatters
Cynthia Fuchs
3/5
"It's more or less what the first movie should have been: a (mostly) captivating epic."
eFilmCritic.com
David Cornelius
3.5/4
"...continues in the tradition to create vivid, imaginary and enthusiastic interpretations of the most memorable children's books of the past century."
Cinemaphile.org
David Keyes
2/4
"...the opening hour essentially proceeds at a crawl..."
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
2/4
"What once felt both magical and foreboding now seems rather dreary and perfunctory."
DustinPutman.com
Dustin Putman
A-
"Stands a good chance of becoming the "Empire Strikes Back" of the "Narnia" series: a darker and more satisfying follow-up to an already exceptional starting point."
FilmJerk.com
Edward Havens
B-
"It's the grown-ups who might feel slightly underwhelmed by it all, though they'll likely be moderately entertained by the action and adventure."
EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
C+
"The overemphatic music keeps telling us to be awestruck, but the movie itself stubbornly lacks grandeur."
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
3/5
"Back to Narnia for more battles and a lesson about how things don't happen the same way twice."
Spirituality and Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
3/4
"While not as strong in terms of plotting or character development,
Prince Caspian
is nevertheless a better cinematic experience than its predecessor, if only because it feels more confident and polished."
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
5/10
"The creakiness of the plot mechanics and the light condescension I detect don't have me looking forward to the third
Narnia
movie."
Window to the Movies
Jeffrey Chen
2.5/4
"It's back to Narnia in this second, and only slightly more meaty, adaptation of the C.S. Lewis fantasy franchise."
Big Picture Big Sound
Joe Lozito
2/5
"Prince Caspian (the movie) is gorgeous and a total snore. The boy is just gorgeous. Whitewashing the themes also removed the story."
Cinerina
Karina Montgomery
""Things never happen the same way twice," says the Christ lion Aslan - we can presume that goes as much for movie franchises as for lightning strikes."
UGO
Keith Uhlich
2/5
"Most adults will find
Prince Caspian
tedious, but young viewers are likely to be mildly diverted, rather than actually swept up by the story."
Film-Forward.com
Kent Turner
A
"I was sucked into
Prince Caspian
... When it comes to the spectacle of the piece, it's an epic family film. I'm very anxious to view it again."
Film School Rejects
Kevin Carr
3/4
"Chockablock with intense battle sequences and suffused with a sense of paradise lost,
Prince Caspian
is a worthy successor to
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.
"
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Maitland McDonagh
"[T]he real charms of [t]his second outing... flow much as they did in the first one: by not lingering on the spectacle but on the sweetness of... the child characters and the enchanting talking animals..."
Flick Filosopher
MaryAnn Johanson
1/4
"This sorry sequel is so boring, so unimaginative, and so blandly by-the-numbers that it's almost like [an affront] to the very audience members who made the original a worldwide hit."
Aisle Seat
Mike McGranaghan
B+
"A grand and visually stunning epic with thrilling battle scenes and powerful themes."
Beliefnet
Nell Minow
1.5/4
"C.S. Lewis meets
Teen Beat
."
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
3/5
"Um dos pontos fracos do longa original, resultado de um grave erro de julgamento dos produtores, mostra-se intocável nesta continuação: a falta de carisma do elenco principal."
Cinema em Cena
Pablo Villaca
2.5/5
"[T]here's a not-so-subtle undercurrent of the White Man's Burden in these stories."
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
2/5
"Returning director Andrew Adamson lacks any sort of epic vision and as a result, the experience of watching the film is a lot like listening to the world's most exciting bedtime story being read by someone with the world's most grating monotone"
eFilmCritic.com
Peter Sobczynski
B
"Adamson overcomes some of the book's better-read-than-spoken dialogue and the odd bits of chunky plotting with plenty of grace and charm."
Flipside Movie Emporium
Rob Vaux
C+
"A passably good action film, but it doesn't really deliver much more than that."
Laramie Movie Scope
Robert Roten
"Andrew Adamson shows a more confident and defined vision that works on several levels, however it's unable to overcome a nagging feel of disconnect."
Movie Views
Ryan Cracknell
B+
"More inspired by the book than adapting it,
Caspian
is most likely to appeal to those not especially attached to the book, which is after all a lesser work flanked by two more popular tales."
Decent Films Guide
Steven D. Greydanus
8/10
"Imaginative and visually enchanting but, remember, as Aslan says, "Things never happen the same way twice.""
SSG Syndicate
Susan Granger
5/10
"The movie has just enough of that old-timey grand epic feel for its 144 minutes to breeze by like two and a quarter hours."
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
3/4
"An improvement over the original, Prince Caspian better catches the nuances of the source material, but continues to ignore some of the more potent statements."
Oscar Guy
Wesley Lovell
3/4
"With the main cast and the voice of Liam Neesam as the voice of Aslan back, as well as the creatures and CGI effects, there's enough adventures and suspense for the entire family to enjoy."
BlackFilm.com
Wilson Morales
3/5
Read review
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
Read review
Shadows on the Wall
Rich Cline
(1 - 38) of 38
OFCS Rating: 53% Rotten
Page
1
Reviews database provided by
Rotten Tomatoes
and the
Movie Review Query Engine
All articles and reviews on this website © the respective authors.
All other content © The Online Film Critics Society (0.11)