Spoiler alert, if you care.

There’s good, and then there’s the bad. Here’s the good:

Repicheep. YES, they did him perfectly! It brought me joy.

Caspian’s hair. It was gorgeous…I could not stop looking at it. Wow.

The sea-god at the end. Very well done and impressive.

And the costumes somehow seemed a bit better this time around…especially Susan’s. They looked more real, whereas in the last movie it just looked like expensive dress-up.

Unfortunately, that’s really it. I can count the amount of things I liked about this movie on one hand. In my previous post I quoted eight parts from the book that I hope they kept in the movie. Well, I only saw three. Weak, very weak.

First off…lack of Aslan. He’s like, in two scenes! And that’s it! I can understand cutting out Bacchus and Silenus…but why couldn’t the frolicking scene go on without them?

Also, PETER. Peter’s character in the movie is the exact opposite of Peter in the book. This quote sums it up:

“”I haven’t come to take your place, you know [Caspian], but to put you into it.”

In the movie Peter has this complex where he has to do things his way and always be in charge, and he and Caspian butt heads over this. Whereas in the book, everyone gets along quite amiably right off the bat. Also, in the book, Peter, along with Susan, doesn’t believe at first that Lucy saw Aslan , but soon he’s right back to his kingly self when he says: “We don’t know when [Aslan] will act. In his time, no doubt, not ours.”

That’s one thing I noticed, actually…modern movies like to introduce these complexes into characters to make them more “real.” Is it too far fetched for someone to actually have a noble character? Like Beowulf succumbing to lust for treasure and glory, like Superman having a freaking child out of wedlock…like Peter having this major ego and practically despising Caspian.

Also, it was not established just how scared of the forest the Telemarines really were. I mean, the forest freaks them out. That’s how all the tree nymphs and dryads scare the everlivin’s out of them and they run back to the bridge. In the movie they’re just slightly superstitious about the forest, and they don’t seem very phased at all when the trees showed up.

Um…what else. Oh yeah, the whole “let’s summon the White Witch scene” happened closer to the beginning, and Caspian was outraged at the very idea, not cooperative. And they never got around to actually summoning her before Caspian and Trufflehunter killed Nikabrik, the hag and the werewolf.

UM. Man, there are a billion things more. Oh, they never stormed the castle either.

Oh, and was it necessary for Caspian to have that annoying accent? I could hardly understand him sometimes. Blah.

Seriously…I didn’t like the first movie very much, but that might as well have been word-for-word compared to Prince Caspian. I had hope for it…actually. I thought there might be a chance… I give it 1 star out of 5, mainly for Repicheep and Caspian’s hair.

Update: As a commenter pointed out, and I agree: as a movie Prince Caspian isn’t all that terrible. If you haven’t read the book you might actually enjoy it a fair bit. However, as an adaptation of the book it is horrendous – which is mainly all I care about – and that’s why it lost 4 stars. =P