The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010): United States – directed by Michael Apted
Rated PG by the MPAA – contains some scary moments and action violence
This third entry into the Chronicles of Narnia series has a new distributor, and a smaller budget, but this is not immediately evident. After Prince Caspian failed to live up to its enormous budget, Disney dropped the Walden Media production, and Fox picked it up. Thus, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader comes to us courtesy of Fox Walden.
I have not read the Narnia books in many years, and will take other’s word that this entry includes some of the plot of Dawn Treader, with some other strains from The Silver Chair. Nevertheless, the plot here is rather straightforward. Lucy (Georgie Henley) and Edmund (Skandar Keynes) are the two remaining Pevensie children, stuck in England during the war. Peter and Susan are in America, along with their parents. So Lucy and Edmund stay with their cousin, Eustace (Will Poulter), a whiny, petulant boy who sneers at their fanciful notions of Narnia and its magic. Naturally, a painting on the wall starts pouring water as they fight, and they are all sucked into the sea.