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10 Big Differences Between Narnia: Voyage Of The Dawn Treader Book And Movie

Will Poulter in The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

The Chronicles of Narnia series, while it hasn’t been known for making Harry Potter level money or inspiring viewers to get pumped for the next installment, has been known for one thing: staying fairly true to the books. Of course, characters and events were slightly tweaked and changed in the first two films, but with Disney washing its hands of the franchise and 20th Century Fox picking it up… only to wash its hands of the franchise, the last of the Narnia films features more swashbuckling and adventure than its C.S. Lewis written counterpart.

Since The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is generally one of the more popular titles in the Narnia series, it’s a shame it doesn’t stick as closely as the others to plot, but I can’t really blame director Michael Apted for turning a niche-audience story based on wit-filled interactions and strong characters into a broad story mainly about action. I’m sure he has kids to feed. Or a dog.

Following is a breakdown of the biggest changes I noticed in my screening.

Following the first two films, England is set in WWII. Edmund, with the fighting skills he’s honed in Narnia is anxious to join the war, but is deemed too young. Peter, instead of studying at the old ‘wardrobe’ house with Professor Kilgore as he does in the book, has joined the army. The continuation of Edmund’s jealousy for Peter does not become him, and is a reminder that Edmund’s character has not developed as far in the films as in the books.

Eustace’s over-the top journal musings are a main component to the narration in the film. Eustace is a ridiculous character, no matter how you paint him. His journal musings are comedic insights into the way he thinks. However, in this film these musings are used less to comedic effect and more to keep the narrative rolling. This works once or twice.

Eustace is a dragon for half the movie. Eustace’s transformation from whiny and insipid to smart and included is played out in the Dawn Treader , although Eustace, in a far more lengthy punishment, is a dragon for twice as long in the film. Luckily for us, we don’t have to see him peel off countless layers of skin to become a human boy again.

From the time the crew reaches the Lone Islands, Dawn Treader is extremely action-driven. The Dawn Treader is a book about its characters being brave or hearty and thinking their way out of situations. Caspian is the key to this. The movie shoves this idea aside, creating less room for thought and more room for action. Caspian is hastier and quicker to choose firearms over mental will, although this route seems to just as easily lead to saving his people.

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The islands are out of order and some are missing. The Dark Island is key to this film, and to get there, fewer islands are necessary to get to the story’s heart. This leads to more action in a smaller area. This is the formula for less movie minutes, people, and less money spent on the budget, I would suspect.

Mist brings nightmares to those traveling East in Narnia. Aslan’s country is reached, but it was never really the goal of the film. Instead, it is first the goal to find Caspian’s Lords and second the goal to save the country from an evil green mist that has been stealing Narnian citizens and taking them beyond Caspian’s reaches. Saving the people means finding the Dark Island, and that becomes the goal of the film. This is a wayward turn of events, since the mist doesn't exist in the books and is a weird stand-in for the darkness that is a frightening event in the book.

Seven swords hold the key to beating evil. The wish Caspian has to find the seven Lords who were his father’s followers becomes more important when it is discerned their swords hold the key to saving the kingdom from the green mist. Reuniting the swords on Aslan’s table will defeat the evil mist; the only problem is getting a hold of the final sword, which lies in Lord Rhoop’s hands within the Dark Island.

Lucy is a caretaker. A stowaway named Gail is found, perhaps to augment the ratio of female (1) to males (several dozen) on board. Gail is a young girl whose mother disappeared into the green mist. Lucy must turn away from her petty yearnings the audience learns of early on at a magicians abode. This way, she is able to mentor Gail and be the strong sweetheart audiences know her to be.

The sea serpent becomes the main villain. Everyone knows that sea serpents are very stupid animals… except when they are made of green mist. Then they become vastly more intelligent and all the more wicked because they are created by nightmares, apparently. Besides, fighting a giant sea serpent at the end of the film as Eustace tries to return the final sword to Aslan’s table leads to a lot of cool cut-to shots.

Reepicheep journeys with Aslan’s blessing into his kingdom. It is Caspian’s longing to see his father again that eventually leads to Aslan’s country. While Caspian, the Pevensies and Eustace cannot go, Reepicheep humbly asks Aslan for a pass. The storyline works within the circumstances, but doesn’t allow Reepicheep to do what it is in his character to do: go out boldly, with a bang. Perhaps this is a statement about The Voyage of the Dawn Treader itself.

See anything I missed? Add to the list yourself in the comments section below.

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C.S. Lewis’ The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Lessons and Review

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Know Before you Watch

Movie : The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Age Suggestion : 7+ (2 nd grade and up) Length: 1 hr. 53 mins Rating : PG Release Date : December 2010 Where to Watch : As of November 2021, you can find the movie on Disney Plus and rent it from all the major platforms as well. Themes : Identity, Repentance, Purpose, Fulfillment Warnings : Mild Fantasy Violence and Peril

What to Know Before You Read The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Book : The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Age Suggestion : 8+ (3rd grade and up) Pages : Will vary by edition (~220 pages) Publisher : Harper Collins Publication Date : September 15th, 1952 (Updated several times since) Themes and Warning are the same for the book and movie .

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Summary

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader starts with Edmund and Lucy as well as their snotty cousin, Eustace. They find their way to Narnia where they meet up with King Caspian. Caspian is on a journey to find all the seven Lords in order to fulfill a promise to his late father. During the trip, the crew cross paths with many hardships and barriers.

C. S. Lewis is regarded as one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers, and his children’s series, the Chronicles of Narnia, are considered to be classics and has sold over 100 million copies. The Silver Chair is the fourth written book of this series, while also being the sixth book chronologically. We prefer reading the books in the order they were written (this impacts the first few in particular), but they can be enjoyed either way. The three filmed movies follow the written order.

Differences Between The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Movie and the Book. SPOILERS INCLUDED

Combining Events : The movie takes a few liberties on what happens on certain islands. What are separate islands in the book are combined in the movie. This is most likely done to cut down on screen time and create more exciting scenes.
Condition of some of the Lords : They mostly got this right, but one big notable change happened with Lord Bern, for some obvious reasons. Lord Bern in the movie is shown in the dungeon when he meets Caspian. In the book, Lord Bern purchases Caspian as a slave.
Relationships : Although most of the relations are similar, some relationships are better than in the book. The most striking is between Reepicheep and Eustace who take much longer to warm up to each other in the book.
Method of Breaking the Curse : In the book, someone must go to the Land of the East and not return (Go to Aslan’s country) to break the curse on the three Lords at the table. In the movie, swords are collected from each Lord and are combined to break the curse.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Discussion Questions

1) If you could bring any family member with you to Narnia, who would you want it to be?

2) If you have read Prince Caspian, what are some of the differences between Caspian in Prince Caspian than in Voyage of the Dawn Treader?

3) How does Eustace and Reepicheep’s relationship change throughout the story?

4) Who was your favorite character and why? Who did you most relate with?

5) What do you imagine Aslan’s Country to be like?

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Curriculum

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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Lessons by Character

By far the most character development occurs within the Pevensies’ cousin, Eustace Scrubb. At the beginning of the story, Eustace is a snotty, spoiled brat who is constantly complaining and whining to anyone who will listen. It takes being thrust into Narnia and having a conversation with Aslan for him to see the error of his mistakes. This is when Eustace realizes that the way you treat people is important and begins to change his ways.

Throught the entire story, Lucy is struggling with self confidence. This is mostly shown in her constant comparing her looks to her older sister, Susan and wanting to know what her friends are saying behind her back, which was out of context. From her spell casting, she learns that what is done cannot be undone and no one knows what ‘would have happened’ only what has. We should live our lives with the consequences of our actions in mind.

Similarly to his sister, Edmond also struggles with comparing himself to others. Instead of looks, he is more focused on power and control. This comes mostly from the tension from the fact that Caspian is now king. Earlier in the story, Edmond, along with his siblings, were the reigning monarchy in Narnia. Throughout the story, Edmond learns that working together is more important than individual power.

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Treading the Dawn: Bringing Dawn Treader From Book to Film

Douglas gresham, walden media’s micheal flaherty and c. s. lewis scholar devin brown discuss the book and the film.

A few weeks ago, I reviewed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as someone who hadn’t read the book and found the film confusing. A few days ago I reviewed The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader as a lover of the book who not only grew up with it but has read it aloud countless times to my children.

Despite my very different experiences of these two films and my very different relationships with their source material, my guiding principle in both cases is the same: The filmmakers’ job is to make a good film that can be judged on its own; the book may be a useful point of comparison, but is not the standard by which the film is judged. Seeing six Harry Potter movies should be enough preparation for watching the seventh; Harry-heads to the contrary notwithstanding, it shouldn’t be necessary to read over a million words of Harry’s written adventures as well. Likewise, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader stands or falls as a film, not by how closely it adheres to the book, much as I love it.

That said, for fans, the book remains a key point of comparison, and how the film relates to the source material is still an important question. How does The Voyage of the Dawn Treader compare to its source material?

In some respects, the film covers much of the same ground as the book. C. S. Lewis scholar Devin Brown, whose Inside Narnia: A Guide to Exploring The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is the best book on Narnia I’ve ever read, said in a phone interview, “The movie tells us what the book tells us about temptation, courage, sacrifice. What true beauty is, for example, in Lucy’s case. About pride.”

Thankfully, the portrayal of Aslan is without any of the diminishing or un-divinizing touches that affected the earlier films. The movie version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe gave Aslan a line about how the Deep Magic “governs all our destinies — yours and mine.” In Prince Caspian , a line from the book was subtly altered so that instead of telling Lucy that he had not grown but her perception of him had, Aslan suggested that both he and Lucy were growing. Those were lines Lewis never would have written.

Nothing of the sort crops up in the Dawn Treader film. In fact, the film retains Aslan’s most explicitly Christological speech word for word: Aslan tells Lucy that he is in our world, but “there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”

For Walden Media co-founder and president Micheal Flaherty, to whom I also spoke by phone, that speech was essential. “If we were to change a single word of Aslan’s speech on the beach at the end,” he said, “it would have been a completely different movie.”

Not everything about that climactic scene was equally sacrosanct. In Lewis’ book, drawing on Johannine imagery, Aslan is depicted as a lamb who turns into a lion, and there is a breakfast of roasted fish on the beach. “Sometimes it might have worked on the page and it’s really tough to do on the screen,” Flaherty said. “I think a lamb frying fish is quite a head-scratcher.”

As for Aslan voice actor Liam Neeson’s recent comments about Aslan symbolizing not only Jesus but also Muhammad and Buddha, Flaherty was ready for that question.

“I go to my pastor for words on how to unpack the religious meaning of things,” he said. “I go to a literature professor to explain literature. I’ve never gone to an actor to interpret literature or religious meaning. We hired Liam not because he has a degree from Dallas Theological Seminary, but because he’s one of the best actors on the planet, and he would give Aslan the best possible voice. The most important thing is not what comes out of Liam’s mouth at a press conference — it’s what comes out of his mouth when he’s speaking as Aslan up on the screen.”

Treading the Dawn

Still, elements in Lewis’ creative vision have fallen by the wayside. Among the most notable is the role of the sun and the east in Lewis’ tale. The Narnian world is not a globe, but a flat land with an eastern edge that you can sail to. Beyond the eastern edge, beyond the orbit of the rising sun, is Aslan’s country. As the characters approach the utter east, the sun appears larger and larger —two or three times its normal size — and becomes blinding to look at, until drinking from the sweet (non-salt) water of the last ocean strengthens their eyes so they can gaze steadily at the giant sun without blinking.

“The Dawn Treader treads the dawn,” Brown said when I asked him about this motif in the book. “As the ship comes up in the east, the ship sails over its reflection toward the utter east. I don’t know if people know this, but churches are oriented toward the east — old traditional ones. And I think Lewis was trying to suggest our longing for something beyond this world. There’s a famous line in Mere Christianity where Lewis says: If I have a desire in myself which nothing in this world can satisfy, it seems, to me, evidence that I was made for another world. And certainly Reepicheep has that desire to the greatest extent. And it lies there in the utter east, in a world he was actually made for.”

In the movie, the voyage to the world’s edge and Aslan’s country remains — but without the solar and eastern imagery. The Dawn Treader no longer treads the dawn; in the entire film, I believe, there’s not one shot of the ship sailing toward the dawn or with the sun setting at its stern. For much of the film the sun tends to be off the starboard bow, i.e., in what would be the south, if they were sailing east. I’m pretty sure as they approach the Lone Islands at dusk we see them sailing into the sunset, i.e., due west . For part of the film the ship follows a blue star, but never the sun.

Even references to the east are almost entirely lacking; other than a line of dialogue from Reepicheep and possibly a map or two, there’s no indication what direction the Dawn Treader is sailing. I doubt if one viewer in 20 would be able to say in what direction the Dawn Treader was sailing, unless he knew the book.

“That’s a really interesting point,” Flaherty acknowledged. “Narnia has an interesting geography: The world is flat. And there is something beckoning about the utter east. That would have been a good shot. … That’s an interesting point.”

But when I put the question to Douglas Gresham, C. S. Lewis’ stepson, who is involved in the Lewis estate and is a producer on the Narnia films, he said bluntly, “I don’t think that’s the least bit important, to be honest. That they sail eastward, in Narnia? A flat world, theoretically? I don’t think it is, no.”

Gresham’s dismissiveness may seem startling, but it’s not the first time I’ve gotten such a response from him. When Prince Caspian was released, I asked Gresham about that line change mentioned above, in which Aslan suggests to Lucy that he too is growing, instead of saying that he is not but her perception of him is growing.

When I asked Brown about that line change, he acknowledged that the language in Lewis is significant, but suggested that the movie version was open to interpretation. “I think there’s a possible meaningful difference,” he conceded. “I understand people’s point there. If they’d asked you or me, we would have kept the original line, wouldn’t we?”

Gresham, though, professed not to see the significance in Lewis’ original choice of words. “I never really considered his size as really of very much importance, except with the fun we could have with it on the screen,” he told me at the time. “I think you’re probably digging a little too deep and discovering gems that probably aren’t there.”

Are the gems there or not? If they are, Gresham might be a bit like the landowner in Jesus’ parable who sells a field unaware of the hidden treasure buried in it — but not, in this case, to a buyer more interested in the treasure.

To my mind, leaving the sun out of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader isn’t entirely unlike leaving Beatrice out of The Divine Comedy . The ultimate destination may be the same, but without that guiding light, it’s not the same journey.

More pointedly, it’s a little like scant attention in the movie version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to winter yielding to spring — a major motif in the book. These images are the mythic hooks on which Lewis hung his deeper meanings: Winter yielding to spring symbolizes redemption and resurrection, and journeying toward the sun symbolizes journeying toward heaven, toward God. The movies go through the motions of Lewis’ plots, but overlook the mythic imagery that embodies his meaning.

Dragoning and Undragoning

Another crucial motif has to do with Eustace’s transformation into a dragon and his subsequent undragoning, a double transformation that reveals both Eustace’s selfish, fallen nature and the transforming power of grace.

Some of the movie’s adjustments are for dramatic reasons: The movie omits the old dragon as well as Eustace’s first-person experience of waking up as a dragon, which would be hard to convey without voice-over narration. More significantly, it defers Eustace’s undragoning until late in the third act, giving it more climactic force.

The undragoning of Eustace, an image of redemption, was another make-or-break scene for Flaherty. “Fail with that scene,” he said wryly, “and here come the pitchforks.”

It’s not hard to see how the scene could have gone wrong. Once the idea of leaving Eustace as a dragon was proposed, Flaherty said, “The next thing is, well, if he’s a dragon, then he’s got to fight the sea serpent, because that would look really cool. But if he fights the sea serpent and then gets undragoned, that defeats the entire message of grace being given to him. It’s going to seem as if he earned it.”

The movie avoids this trap, making it clear that Eustace’s transformation into a boy is clearly Aslan’s gift to Eustace, and something he couldn’t accomplish on his own.

Still, the scene presented challenges to the filmmakers. In Lewis, the dragon tries to scratch off its dragon skin, but there are always new scales beneath. Then Aslan tears away at the dragon flesh with his claws and plunges Eustace into a well from which he emerges, boyhood restored.

The image of Aslan tearing away at Eustace’s dragon flesh posed obvious difficulties for filmmakers aiming at a PG rating, and I understand why they went a different route — though I’m less than satisfied with the film’s solution, which I don’t think is as powerful as it ought to be. Part of the problem is that not only does Eustace never speak (since he’s not a talking dragon), neither does Aslan , which makes the encounter a bit impersonal.

Less clear is why the filmmakers chose to omit Eustace’s immersion in water, with its sacramental symbolism. “You’re right to say it’s baptismal imagery,” Brown confirmed. “Baptism captures a death, dying to old self, as St. Paul says, and rising to walk in newness of life. So that imagery’s there in the book, and we don’t have that in the movie.”

Flaherty also acknowledged that it was a missed opportunity. “Yeah, and you know, the water was right there,” he mused. “There was an idea that when Aslan roars, that knocks him back into the water, and there was a good case to make for that artistically. … You’re hitting on a key discussion point that went on for many a day.”

Even Gresham acknowledged, “We can’t do everything; we can’t get everything right.” But he also added, “I don’t think in today’s world baptism imagery would be understood by many people.”

That’s exactly the opposite of how Lewis thought. Lewis used imagery not primarily for readers who already understood its theological underpinnings, but precisely for those who didn’t. He wanted to “baptize the imagination,” to provide readers with an imaginative vocabulary that might someday help them make sense of the Christian worldview. Gresham’s suggestion that Lewis’ images might be dispensed with on the grounds that they wouldn’t be “understood” suggests a fundamental misunderstanding of Lewis’ whole program.

Reepicheep and Eustace

Not all of the changes diminish the story. In some cases, they enhance it, or at least make it more cinematic. I very much like the way the movie alters Reepicheep’s challenge to Eustace, which unlike the book, leads to an actual duel — with Reepicheep shouting instructions and encouraging Eustace, in essence, to man up. Though the scene ends with comeuppance, there is also a grace note and even a shy smile from Eustace.

“No one has ever taken this kind of interest in Eustace,” Flaherty commented. “Reepicheep holds him accountable. This is a kid who probably, for all his years in Cambridge, did whatever he wanted. Reepicheep is probably the first person to ever call him on it: ‘Look, we have rules! You can’t do that. There are consequences for that kind of behavior.’ At the same time, it’s a kind of tough love: ‘Okay, that’s done; we’ll put that behind us. I see potential in you.’ And that little smile — that’s the first smile we get from Eustace.”

Reepicheep’s final moments are also worth noting. His final speech to Aslan exemplifies the longing for a world beyond this world that Brown talked about, and his final act with his sword is striking — particularly, yes, if you know the character from the book. And the chastened, redeemed Eustace of the film’s final moments credibly completes the character’s arc. Would I like to see this Eustace go on to The Silver Chair ? Yes, I would.

Lines I Wish I Had Written: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Major props to Dr. David C. Downing, whose essay on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Ignatius Insight) closes with this brilliant line:

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Is it possible that the makers of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader have made the best film in the series to date while charting a course even further from the book? I think it is. Perhaps it’s even because the film diverges from the book to the extent that it does that I’m able to regard the film more for what it is than for what it isn’t.

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The Narnia movies are filled with positive message

Aslan is an almost perfect role model, dispensing

The Pevensies and King Caspian and his crew battle

In one brief scene, Lucy looks at a couple who are

Some British insults -- like "sod," "what the blaz

Positive Messages

The Narnia movies are filled with positive messages about selflessness, self-sacrifice, and generosity. The characters, with the exception of Eustace (at first), are brave and want to help the Narnians defeat evil. As each of the main characters is tempted, they learn to make the choices that work for the greater good. Some of the messages could be considered religious, but it's not overt.

Positive Role Models

Aslan is an almost perfect role model, dispensing sage advice and guiding the characters to make the right decisions. The three kids are also positive role models -- as well as very relatable -- because they overcome their fears and insecurities for the good of Narnia. King Caspian doesn't surrender to his temptation to stand before his father before it's time. Instead, he honors his commitment to be the best king he can be.

Violence & Scariness

The Pevensies and King Caspian and his crew battle the elements and their own fears that turn into reality -- like a giant sea serpent that dozens of men try to bring down with swords and arrows. There's a fair bit of sword play and sword fighting, but no one is killed. On one island, people are "sacrificed" to the sea, so a girl looks horrified as her mother is whisked away on a boat, presumably never to be seen again ( spoiler alert : all ends well). A few characters look dead but are actually in a deep sleep. Two characters nearly turn on each other but only because they're under an enchantment. The White Witch appears, but only in Edmund's mind.

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Sex, Romance & Nudity

In one brief scene, Lucy looks at a couple who are flirting with each other and embracing. A star manifests herself as a beautiful woman, and both Caspian and Edmund look completely taken with her. An ongoing theme in the movie is that Lucy wishes she were as beautiful (and attractive to the opposite sex) as her older sister, Susan.

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Some British insults -- like "sod," "what the blazes," "bleedin," and "thick" -- as well as "crap," "shut up," "idiot," "oh God" (as an exclamation), and the like.

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Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that the third Chronicles of Narnia installment is, like its predecessors, a tween-friendly fantasy adventure. In general, you can expect the same level of special effects-heightened battles/violence and minor language as Prince Caspian . While there's little inappropriate content for older elementary-schoolers and up, younger kids may be frightened by a few scenes with a giant sea serpent and others set on an island where people are routinely sacrificed. Like all of the adaptations based on C. S. Lewis ' classic books, there are some mild allusions to Christianity, though nothing overtly religious is said (Aslan does reference the "other name" he's called in the regular world). The film offers positive lessons about collaboration, selflessness, and overcoming personal doubts and fears, and the three central kids all grapple with self-worth issues that will be very relatable for tweens. Note: The movie's 3-D images add to the intensity of a few action sequences, particularly the battle with the giant sea snake. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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The epitome of Narniaian adventure

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In this adaptation of C.S. Lewis' third Chronicles of Narnia book , the two youngest Pevensie kids, Edmund ( Skandar Keynes ) and Lucy ( Georgie Henley ), are staying with their aunt, uncle, and obnoxious younger cousin Eustace ( Will Poulter ). They make the best of their unhappy situation ... until one day, when the seaside painting in their guest room comes to life and sweeps them (and unbelieving Eustace) onto the Dawn Treader , the royal Narnian ship of King Caspian ( Ben Barnes ). Caspian explains that he and his crew are on a mission to find the seven "lost lords" of Narnia, who were dispatched by his father ages ago but were never heard from again. To restore peace to Narnia, they must track down the lords' enchanted swords and lay them at Aslan's table. As Caspian, the Pevensies, and the crew of the Dawn Treader navigate treacherous waters, they're each tested by an evil mist that emanates from an ominously dark island.

Is It Any Good?

The Chronicles of Narnia series isn't exactly The Lord of the Rings saga, but, THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER is surprisingly engaging. Yes, it follows the less-glamorous younger siblings and their insufferable on-screen cousin, but that's true to Lewis' story and allows for Edmund and Lucy (and Keynes and Henley) to mature and show that they're as worthy as Peter and Susan to fight for Narnia. Simon Pegg replaces Eddie Izzard as the voice of Reepicheep, and once again the sword-wielding mouse is a highlight of the action -- in this case helping Eustace grow into a brave defender of Narnia.

Director Michael Apted , a master at nuance and character development (he made both the groundbreaking documentary series 7 Up and the Oscar-winning biopic Coal Miner's Daughter ), smartly focuses on the relationships between the main characters rather than the action. There are still some special effects-heavy sequences, but it's not mind blowing. So Apted chronicles how Lucy deals with her desire to be as beautiful as her older sister and how Edmund struggles with his jealousy over living in Peter's -- and now Caspian's -- shadow. These are believable younger sibling "issues," and it makes the Pevensies -- and Eustace, who's too logical and uptight for his own good -- incredibly relatable to a tween audience, many of whom are experiencing similar doubts about their self-worth. So although this saga isn't quite as memorable as other epic fantasies like LOTR and the Harry Potter movies , The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a worthier-than-expected journey.

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Families can talk about how each of the main characters was tested and tempted and yet came out victorious. What insecurities did each of them overcome? What is the movie's message about pride and beauty?

For those who've read the books , how faithful is the film to the story?

Why do you suppose the Pevensies can't return to Narnia once they've grown up? What is it about getting older that makes your time in Narnia come to an end?

Movie Details

In theaters : December 10, 2010
On DVD or streaming : April 5, 2011
Cast : Ben Barnes , Georgie Henley , Skandar Keynes
Director : Michael Apted
Inclusion Information : Female actors
Studio : Walden Media
Genre : Fantasy
Topics : Magic and Fantasy , Adventures , Book Characters
Run time : 115 minutes
MPAA rating : PG
MPAA explanation : some frightening images and sequences of fantasy action
Last updated : February 18, 2024

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THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN AND THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER

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(O) Magic and enchantment throughout, through not necessarily in an evil context.

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The magical land of Narnia comes alive in this excellent version of C.S. Lewis’ famous novel: THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN AND THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER. Picking up where THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE left off, Narnia is left under the corrupt rule of King Miraz. His nephew, Prince Caspian, summons Edmund and Lucy out of contemporary Britain to help him regain the throne. Accompanied by an army of dwarfs and talking animals, and under the guidance of the lion Aslan (C.S. Lewis’ allegorical figure for Jesus Christ) Narnia is placed under the just rule of Caspian.

The story of THE DAWN TREADER is replete with spiritual themes. However, some viewers may be disturbed by the use of magic, even though by and large enchantment is used allegorically and is something that happens to the characters, rather than being performed by the characters. Even so, PRINCE CASPIAN AND THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER is rich in adventure and high moral content. Acting performances and direction are superb. In terms of literary value, the video is also faithful to the original novel. Overall, PRINCE CASPIAN AND THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER is a generous portion of superior family entertainment.

1 Berit Kjos (pronounced Chos) is the author of YOUR CHILD AND THE NEW AGE and A WARDROBE FROM THE KING, both from Victor Books. As a registered nurse, she was first introduced to the New Age Movement through “holistic health” in the early 70’s. A few years later, while writing Bible studies for the women at Peninsula Bible Church, Palo Alto, and training leaders to teach neighborhood Bible studies, she recognized the need to understand counterfeit spirituality. Some of the group participants had been involved in occult practices and sought clear Biblical answers. Kjos began to prepare teaching material pointing out the differences between New Age teaching and Biblical truth. She has spoken extensively to women’s groups on how parents can equip children to resist New Age influences. She is married to a lawyer and has three sons. All have input in her writing projects. They are members of Union Presbyterian Church and live in Los Altos, Calif.

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3 Reprinted with permission of THE NEW AMERICAN, November 21, 1988. James Perloff is a contributing editor to THE NEW AMERICAN. His book, THE SHADOWS OF POWER: THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS AND THE AMERICAN DECLINE, is about to released by Western Islands.

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (film)

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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a 2010 epic fantasy film based on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader , the third published novel in The Chronicles of Narnia series. This movie marks the first Narnia film not to be distributed by Disney (both The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian were under the Disney banner). Instead, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader was distributed by 20th Century Fox . On March 23, 2010, Fox announced that the film will be released in Digital 3D in select theaters.

The film was released in theaters in the United States and United Kingdom on December 10, 2010.

2.1 Main Protagonists
2.2 Dawn Treader crew
2.3 Narnians
3 Differences between the book and film
4 Production
5 Marketing
8 External links

Dawn Treader

Sometime has passed since the Pevensies ' last adventure. The two youngest Pevensie children, Lucy and Edmund , are staying with their odious cousin Eustace Scrubb during the final days of the second World War while their older brother and sister, Peter and Susan , are in America with their parents. Edmund and Lucy feel they are being left out; Edmund attempts to join the army, but is unsuccessful and Lucy is upset by the feeling that she does not match up to her sister in looks. They get a letter from Susan that they'll be staying with Eustace for another few months. And they are not happy about it. Of course, Eustace isn't thrilled about it either. They observe a painting in Lucy's room of a grand ship on the sea that looks very Narnian, only to be interrupted by Eustace who mocks them. Suddenly, just as Edmund and Eustace get into an argument, the painting comes to life and the water spills out into the room, transporting the three children into an ocean in Narnia. They rose to the surface to find themselves in the way of the ship from the painting, but are rescued by the crew and are taken aboard. this is a different sort of editing. one that stil works.

Among the ship's crew are King Caspian X and Reepicheep and the ship is the Dawn Treader , the first ship Narnia had seen in centuries. Also among the crew are Lord Drinian , who serves as the ship's captain, and a small number of Narnians including the Minotaurs Tavros and Jemain . Caspian shows Edmund and Lucy the hidden chamber where he kept all of the Pevensies' prize possessions. He also explains that three years have passed in Narnia and he is on a voyage to find the seven lost lords of Telmar , good men and friends of his late father, Caspian IX , whom his evil uncle Miraz banished when he usurped the throne many years back. Lucy and Edmund are delighted to be back in Narnia, but Eustace is less enthusiastic as he doesn't want to believe he is in Narnia and is at odds with Reepicheep. Lucy even asks if Caspian had found a wife in the three years they had been gone; he smiles bashfully and admits he had not, unaware that later events on the voyage would change that fact. Lucy also asks what is beyond the Lone Islands ; in a later conversation with Reepicheep when she hears him sing a song a dryad sang to him when he was a mousling, he says that he believes Aslan's Country lies beyond the Seas of the Utter East - a place he hopes to sail to on the voyage.

Finally, they arrive at the Lone Islands and first make land in Narrowhaven ; the Lone Islands are normally Narnian territory, but they discover that Narrowhaven has become a haven for slave trade by Calormen . Caspian, Lucy, Edmund and Eustace are captured by the slave traders as merchandise. While imprisoned, Caspian and Edmund meets one of the lost lords, Lord Bern , who is overwhelmed when Caspian reveals that he is the son of the late Caspian IX. Edmund then witnesses a group of slaves being sailed out to sea and disappearing when a mysterious green mist appears. Bern reveals those not sold are sacrificed to this mist that he and the other lords were investigating. The crew of the Dawn Treader arrive and rescue the four captive crew members, killing the slave trade leader and their men. The people in Narrowhaven also participate in the fight. Eustace tries to run away, but he doesn't know that Calormen is sneaking behind him, about to kill him, and knocks him out with a boat paddle. Caspian reclaims Narrowhaven and names Bern its duke, who gives him one of the Seven Swords that the lords possessed, which were given to them by his father. One of the citizens, Rhince , whose wife Helaine was one of those sacrificed to the mist, begs Caspian to let him join them so he could find her and Caspian agrees. But later, When Eustace and Reepicheep have a sword fight, much to the crew's entertainment, it is discovered that Rhince's young daughter, Gael , had stowed away on board the ship, but is accepted by Drinian and welcomed by Lucy.

Lucy reading the Book Of Incantions

The second island they visit is the Coriakin's Island and Lucy is abducted by invisible Dufflepuds , who force her to enter their oppressor's manor to recite a spell of visibility. She enters the manor and find the Book of Incantations, from which she rips out a page containing a beauty incantation that would make her look like her sister before reciting the visibility spell, making both the Dufflepuds and the magician, Coriakin visible again. Lucy and the others learn that Coriakin actually cast the invisibility spell to protect the Dufflepuds from the evil green mist that came from Dark Island . To defeat the evil of Dark Island, the crew would have to locate the other Swords of the Seven Lords and lay them at Aslan's Table on Ramandu's Island , but Coriakin also warns them that they are all about to tested by temptation. In order to reach Ramandu's Island, they have to follow the Blue Star. During a storm at sea after leaving Magician's Island, Lucy nearly becomes the first victim to the mist's temptation because of her lack of self-value; she casts the beauty incantation and transforms into Susan. She then finds herself at a party with Peter and Edmund, who recognise her as Susan and do not know of Lucy or Narnia. Realising that she no longer exists as Lucy, she awakes from the vision of the party as her normal self. Aslan appears to her in a mirror and explains that she wished herself away and much more with it because she doubted her value. Her brothers and sister would not have known of Narnia if it was not because of her, as she was the one who discovered it. After Lucy throws the page containing the beauty incantation into the fire, the mist moves to torture Caspian and Edmund with their own personal demons; Caspian has nightmares of his father and the mist appears to Edmund as Jadis , the White Witch.

The crew then make a stop at a volcanic island, where Caspian, Edmund and Lucy find a pool of water that turns anything it touches to gold, along with Lord Restimar , who fell into the pool and was turned to gold himself. After successfully claiming his sword, Edmund is tempted by the pool's powers and challenges Caspian over who is more worthy of being king. They fight, but Lucy stops them and warns them that they are being tempted, just like Coriakin warned them. Elsewhere, Eustace leaves the group to avoid participating in the work and finds treasure that arouses his greed, filling his pockets with gold and jewels and puts on a large golden bracelet from a skeleton. When Caspian, Edmund and Lucy return to the boats and realise that Eustace is missing, Caspian and Edmund go looking for him. They come across the treasure themselves and find Eustace's clothes burnt, but no sign of Eustace. Caspian then spots the skeleton and identifies it as Lord Octesian , while Edmund finds his sword. Suddenly, a dragon attacks the Dawn Treader and abducts Edmund, flying him over the island and showing him giant words it made with fire that say "I AM EUSTACE". They all realise that Eustace must've been tempted by the treasure and transformed into a dragon as a result. The Pevensies, Caspian, Reepicheep, Rhince and Gael stay ashore that night, keeping Eustace company. Reepicheep comforts Eustace, stating that maybe being turned into a dragon was a sign that he had a great destiny ahead of him; Eustace then helps the crew get to their destination the next day when Gael spots the Blue Star in the sky.

The crew finally arrive at Ramandu's Island and discover Aslan's Table, served with food and Lord Mavramorn , Lord Argoz , and Lord Revilian under a spell. Caspian warns the crew that the food was responsible and when Edmund spots the Stone Knife , they lay the swords on the table, realising that one is still missing. Suddenly, the Blue Star descends from the sky and turns into a beautiful young woman; she is Lilliandil , the daughter of Ramandu and Caspian immediately falls in love with her. Lilliandil warmly welcomes them and invites them to eat, stating that the food is safe and for them. She then explains that the three lords are under a sleeping spell because they were threatening violence upon each other by the time they reached the island, for violence is forbidden at Aslan's Table and they would only awake when the seventh sword is put with the others. She guides them to the location of the final sword; Dark Island itself and warns them that they will need great courage. Before Lilliandil returns to the sky, Caspian tells her that he hopes they would meet again and she reciprocates his wish with a smile.

Edmund and Lucy in the Dawn Treader

Upon arriving at Dark Island, Eustace tries to run away from the island as soon as he sees it. But Reepicheep reminds him that a noble warrior doesn't run from fear. With Reepicheep's words encouraging him, he ventures inside with the crew. The crew discover the seventh lord, Lord Rhoop and Eustace brings him abroad. The mist has made Rhoop paranoid and makes him think he's about to be attacked until Caspian introduces himself to him. Rhoop warns them not to think of their fears, or it becomes real. But Edmund fails and his fear manifests as a sea serpent that attacks the ship. Eustace fights the serpent and tries to kill it, but the serpent grabs Eustace and drags him under water, and slams him into a giant rock. But Eustace was able to breath out fire and burned the serpent, blinding one of it's eyes. Mad with fear, Rhoop throws his sword at Eustace, stabbing him and Eustace flies away, landing on a sandy island nearby. There, he is approached by Aslan, who turns him back into a boy and sents him back to Ramandu's Island to place Rhoop's sword with the others. The sea serpent goes back after the ship and coils around it. Edmund tries to distract it, and Lucy hits it near its eye with Susan's bow and arrows . The crew slam the beast into a giant rock. But it recovers and splits it's body. It tries to pull the ship underwater, but then the crew use harpoons to pull it down and to kill it. Eustace makes it to Aslan's table. But the mist tries to keep him from doing so. The mist tries to distract Edmund by appearing as Jadis again, but Eustace succeeds in getting the seven swords together and Edmund manages to overcome his own demons as he slays the sea serpent with Peter's sword, Rhindon . The spell is lifted, the three lords awake from their sleep, the sacrificed people, including Gael's mother, reappears and Eustace rejoins the crew.

Soon afterwards, Caspian, Reepicheep, Lucy, Edmund and Eustace head to the World's End, sailing in a small boat through a sea of lillies until they reach a shore with a massive wave. Aslan appears and tells them that His Country lies beyond the wave, but they would never return if they chose to go on. Caspian is offered the chance to go on when asking if his father is in Aslan's Country, but choses to stay out of realising that he already had what he needed in Narnia and that his father would not have wanted him to give up what he died for. However, Reepicheep comes forward and gains Aslan's blessing to see His Country; he bids farewell to his friends, including Eustace who is devastated at his departure, and paddles in a coracle up the wave and onto Aslan's Country, never again to be seen in Narnia. Aslan then opens a portal in the wave to send the children home, telling them that Edmund and Lucy would not return to Narnia because they have grown up, like Peter and Susan, but encourages them to know him by another name in their own world. However, Eustace, now a much kinder person from his time in Narnia as a dragon, could return someday. Edmund and Lucy bid a final farewell to Aslan and Caspian, before entering the portal along with Eustace.

The three return to Eustace's bedroom where the water returns to the painting and Eustace's mother calls out to him that Jill Pole has come for a visit. The three watch sadly as the Dawn Treader sails away in the painting and disappears behind the waves.

Main Protagonists [ ]

Ben Barnes - Caspian X
Georgie Henley - Lucy Pevensie
Skandar Keynes - Edmund Pevensie
Will Poulter - Eustace Scrubb
Liam Neeson - Aslan (voice)

Dawn Treader crew [ ]

Simon Pegg - Reepicheep (voice)
Gary Sweet - Lord Drinian
Shane Rangi - Tavros the Minotaur
Tamati Rangi - Jemain the Minotaur
Ryan Ettridge - Caprius the Satyr
Steven Rooke - Nausus the Faun
Morgan Evens - A Faun
Chris Cruickshanks - Cruickshanks the Dwarf
Mirko Grillini - The Belligerent Telmarine

Narnians [ ]

Laura Brent - Ramandu's Daughter , Liliandil
Terry Norris - Lord Bern
Bruce Spence - Lord Rhoop
Tony Nixon - Rynelf
Arthur Angel - Rhince
Arabella Morton - Gael
Nathaniel Parker - Caspian IX
Bille Brown - Coriakin
Roy Billings - Chief Duffer
David Vallon - Governor Gumpas
Colin Moody - Pug
Catarina Hebbard - Gael's Aunt
Ozzie Devrich - Slaver
Greg Poppleton - Dufflepud 1
Neil Young - Dufflepud 2
Mary Bradney-George - Dufflepud 5
Scott "Ryctor" Brewer - Dufflepud 7
Anna Popplewell - Susan Pevensie
William Moseley - Peter Pevensie
Tilda Swinton - The White Witch

Differences between the book and film [ ]

In the film, Edmund attempts to enlist in the army, only to be thwarted by Lucy, similar to how she embarrassed Susan in the previous film.
In the film, Eustace makes up a couplet, not a limerick.
In the film, Eustace addresses his parents as "mother" and "father" whilst in the book, he addresses them by their names, "Alberta" and "Harold".
In the book, Reepicheep challenges Eustace to a duel before arriving at the Lone Islands; this challenge is replaced with a duel between Caspian and Edmund in the film and Reepicheep and Eustace later have their own duel after visiting Narrowhaven.
At the Lone Islands, Caspian instructed his men to keep silent about their identities, and only revealed who he was to Lord Bern after he bought his freedom, having been reminded of Caspian's father. In the movie, Caspian shouts "I am your king!" the second they are ambushed by Slave Traders, and meets Lord Bern in the cell where the Slave Traders throw him and Edmund.
In the book, Caspian learns from Lord Bern that the Slave Traders have been allowed to operate without interference from the Governor, Gumpas, who sees the practice as unavoidable and necessary for the economy. In the film, Caspian learns from Bern that the Slave Traders have been making sacrifices to a green mist.
In the film, Lord Bern had not left Narrowhaven because he had been captured and imprisoned by the Slave Traders. In the book, he had not left because he had married and settled down there.
In the film, Rhince is a Narrowhaven citizen who joins the voyage to find his wife, who is sacrificed to the mist. In the book, Rhince is a high member of the Dawn Treader crew.
The Dark Island takes the form of a green mist, becoming a sort of sentient threat seeking to "corrupt all goodness" and "steal the light" from the world, rather than the embodiment of fear in Narnia.
Caspian is much older and wiser in his personality and manner in the film than in the book, most likely because of the differences in his age. In the book, he is coming of age, close to Edmund and Lucy's ages, whilst in the film, he is in his early twenties.
In the book, Eustace tries to steal water whereas in the film, he tries to steal an orange.
The geography has been drastically changed for the film, resulting in some of the islands being visited in a different order than they were in the book. In the book, Dark Island came before Ramandu's Island; Dragon Island and Goldwater Island were two separate islands, neither were volcanic and both were visited before Coriakin's Island.
In the film, Reepicheep never accompanies Caspian, Edmund and Lucy as they explore each of the islands.
In the book, the ship is caught up in a violent storm for two weeks after departing Narrowhaven and arrives at Dragon's Island badly damaged. In the film, the storm comes after departing Magician's Island and before arriving at Goldwater Island and no serious damage is caused.
In the book, though it's assumed that Lord Octesian died at Dragon's Island, it's implied variously that he was either killed by or transformed into the dragon that Eustace encounters. In the film, Lord Octesian's remains are found among the dragon treasure and identified by Caspian, though like in the book, it is uncertain what actually killed him.
In the film, Edmund is tempted by the powers of the gold water pool on Goldwater Island. In the book, it was Caspian who was tempted.
In the film, Coriakin turned the Dufflepuds invisible to protect them from the Green Mist, and they seek Lucy's help because they can't read. In the book, the Dufflepuds turned themselves invisible after Coriakin turned them "ugly" and they sought Lucy's help because only a girl could reverse the spell, but they were too afraid to send their own daughters.
Eustace remains a dragon much longer in the film than in the book. In the book, he was unable to follow the Dawn Treader at sea, whilst In the film, he is able to pull the ship when there's no wind.
In the film, a page from the Book of Incantations tempts Lucy by showing her as the exact image of Susan; she also casts a spell to make it snow indoors. In the book, she imagined her beauty surpassing Susan's and harmfully used a spell to spy on her friends.
Peter was never seen in the book, but he was mentioned.
In the film, Ramandu's daughter is a star, not half-star and is named Lilliandil. Her father never appears in the film.
In the book, Lilliandil's dress is blue whilst in the film, her dress is white, though the colour of her starly glow is blue as she is a blue star.
Lilliandil says that the three Lords were put into a sleep because they were half-mad and threatening violence upon each other when they arrived on the island and "violence is not permitted at Aslan's Table", whereas in the book, they slept because one of them took the Stone Knife and they were not meant to touch it.
In the book, Caspian flirts with Lilliandil by referencing Sleeping Beauty . In the film, he states in a formal manner that she is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen.
In the book, the Sea Serpent was a dumb brute encountered before arriving at Goldwater Island. In the film, the battle with the Sea Serpent at Dark Island is the climax and the monster is a manifest of the green mist after Edmund accidentally conjures it when thinking of his fears.
In the book, Caspian was forbidden by Aslan to sail to the World's End.
In the film, Aslan nevers shows up at the World's End in the form of a lamb.
In the film, Eustace and Jill Pole are already friends as Jill is mentioned to be visiting Eustace at the end of the film; they were not friends in the book and only knew each other by surname.

Production [ ]

Michael Apted was announced as director on April 17, 2007; Andrew Adamson, director of the series' first two films, and Mark Johnson are slated as co-producers. Apted grew up reading the Narnia novels. Bob Beltz of Walden Media said the production company deliberately set up a fast-paced, staggered shooting schedule for the Prince Caspian , The Voyage of the Dawn Treader , and The Silver Chair films "in a way that it won't have to be two and a half years between them. We'll be able to bring them out sequentially a year apart". Michael Apted described taking over direction of the series as easy, "What’s fascinating about this particular franchise is how different all the stories are... there’s no element of Narnia in it at all. This is a journey that Caspian the Tenth is making into the islands, outside to the east of Narnia. So it’s interesting, it’s a whole different tone to the other things".

Production designer Roger Ford was replaced by Jan Roelfs. The owners of an AUD 2.1 million 40 metre by 30 metre by 5 metre water tank at Warner Roadshow Studios in Queensland are negotiating with the production company, in the hope that The Voyage of the Dawn Treader will be filmed there. Filming began in May 2009.

Due to Prince Caspian grossing less than expected, Disney wanted a $100 million budget. However, Walden Media wanted a $140 million budget. On December 24, 2008, Disney chose not to go through with the much anticipated sequel. On January 28, 2009, Fox 2000 decided to pick up the franchise, joining Walden Media for the production.

Marketing [ ]

In late November 2009, three stills from the film were released on the social networking site, Facebook. In February 2010, Narnia.com, the official domain, returned after a nine-month period of being down, bringing with it exclusive reports from the set. The first official teaser poster was released in May 2010. The first official public trailer for the film was released online on June 17, 2010, before being attached to Toy Story 3 on June 18, 2010. A second trailer was released to the Internet August 05, 2010, after being attached on the Diary of a Wimpy Kid DVD.

Ironically, years after refusing to move forward with the film, with 20th century fox stepping in, Disney would eventually own the film by acquiring 20th Century Fox in 2019.

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader at the Internet Movie Database
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

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In Theaters

December 10, 2010
Ben Barnes as King Caspian; Skandar Keynes as Edmund Pevensie; Georgie Henley as Lucy Pevensie; Will Poulter as Eustace Clarence Scrubb; voices of Simon Pegg as Reepicheep; Liam Neeson as Aslan

Home Release Date

April 5, 2011
Michael Apted

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20th Century Fox

Movie Review

When I was a kid, I’d go into the backyard and wait for Aslan to come and get me.

I knew, from repeated readings of C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia , that the great lion could come at any ol’ time. But I figured it’d be best if I was ready—and I tried to encourage him to come on an afternoon when there wasn’t much going on. So, on lazy summer days, I’d sit in the bushes (so my parents wouldn’t be alarmed should they see a sudden flash of light or a mysterious whoosh of wind) and think about how best to greet a centaur or make small talk with a squirrel. And, when that didn’t seem to work, I started asking my parents whether they’d ever be in the market for a wardrobe.

I never got to Narnia—not in a literal sense, anyway. For whatever reason, Aslan saw fit to keep me firmly in this world. We can’t all be swept away to visit another, I guess.

For Lucy and Edmund, of course, such trips are old hat. They visit Narnia more often than most of us visit Disneyland, so when one of Harold and Alberta Scrubb’s unloved paintings suddenly starts flooding the spare bedroom with seawater, the Pevensie siblings know better than to freak out: They simply swim around and wait to be plucked into their next adventure.

Not so Eustace Clarence Scrubb, for whom Narnia was just an imaginary land—something he referenced only when he wanted to mock Edmund and Lucy. He panics .

You’d think Eustace might’ve apologized for making fun of all his cousins’ Narnia talk after he, Edmund and Lucy are fished out of the drink and pulled aboard King Caspian’s Dawn Treader in the middle of the Great Eastern Ocean. Not him. As soon as he gets his sea legs, Master Scrubb sets to complaining about the accommodations, stealing oranges and antagonizing most everyone on board.

“Perhaps we could throw him back,” the gallant talking mouse Reepicheep suggests.

But Aslan doesn’t pull people into Narnia simply to have them tossed away. Even Eustace—especially Eustace—sniveling and shrinking as he is, has a place in Aslan’s plan. And that plan will set sail with all hands on deck even if Eustace has to be dragged aboard by his sopping wet hair.

Positive Elements

Reviewing some films, we say right up front that there’s “too much blood” or “too much sex” to catalogue it fully. Here, we have a more unique issue: There’s too much positivity to adequately deal with in this space.

In a nutshell, the story of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is one of high adventure: Caspian and crew must (in the film) find the source of an evil green mist and dispel it with the help of seven magical swords. But as we’re told by a magician early on, “to defeat the darkness out there, you must defeat the darkness inside yourself.” And so the Dawn Treader becomes a voyage of self-discovery, in which characters are challenged, tempted and tried before finding the wherewithal inside—and outside—themselves to triumph.

Lucy must conquer her jealousy and her self-image insecurities. Edmund, finally free from the shadow of his older brother, Peter, finds he must submit to a new authority in Caspian. Eustace’s issues run the gamut, from cowardice and greed to just being a pest. Everyone comes face to face with their fears and peevish natures—and what they see is rarely pretty.

And that’s the key: These faults are ugly. They aren’t excused or mollified or treated with a sense of relativist gentleness. Everyone brings aboard their own sets of bad qualities and, rather than accept them, our heroes and heroines are encouraged to overcome them—even if it means, as it does in Lucy’s case—appreciating yourself for who you are.

Lucy has long compared herself, unfavorably, to her beautiful older sister, Susan. So Lucy’s greatest challenge here is the temptation to turn herself into Susan—via the magician’s book. She recites a spell and is thrilled when she sees herself as Susan. Then, despite the protestations of Aslan, she rips the page out of the book and takes it back onboard the Dawn Treader to recite again. When she does she’s whisked back to England, this time transformed into Susan—and finds that, in so doing, she’s almost wished herself away. “You doubt your value,” Aslan tells her. “Don’t run from who you are.” Sage advice for our times, when many young girls try to conform to a standard template of beauty or pretend to be someone they are not.

Meanwhile, irrepressible Reepicheep takes a personal interest in Eustace’s maturation: Instead of running the boy through for stealing an orange (absconding with the ship’s stores, the mouse solemnly says, is a capital offense), he gives Eustace an energetic fencing lesson—helping him begin to overcome his fear. And when the lad must face a horrific challenge, Reepicheep tries to instill in him a sense of duty and courage.

It works. Eustace ends up the story’s hero, flying (literally) into the face of danger, selflessly staying evil’s hand for the sake of his friends—which is exactly what his cousins have become.

Spiritual Elements

C.S. Lewis always meant for Dawn Treader to reflect a Christian’s walk in this fallen world of ours, and the temptations faced by the film’s protagonists seem to reflect the Seven Deadly Sins outlined by Pope Gregory in 590—extravagance, gluttony, greed, discouragement, wrath, envy and pride.

While all of the characters have some work to do, it’s Eustace who gains the most, spiritually, from his trip to Narnia. After pilfering treasure from a dragon horde, Eustace turns into a dragon—and the fact that this very mean boy turns out to be a very nice dragon hints at the paradoxical nature within us all: We are creatures of God turned draggonish by sin—and yet, we’re sometimes at our best when we finally, fully understand our own twisted natures.

Eustace eventually turns back into a boy—not from any magic potion or as a reward for an act of heroism, but by the grace of Aslan. Though the transformation scene differs from what is found in the book (more on that later), the meaning is the same—underlined by Eustace’s own words: “No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t do it [change] by myself.” He needed, as we all do, the help of a Savior.

In Narnia, that Savior is Aslan, and his oft-referenced “country” is heaven. Lewis meant the great lion to be a Christ-like figure, and those of us who’ve been raised both in the faith and with the Narnia series are fully aware of that. To introduce that idea to moviegoers who are meeting Aslan for the first time here, the film draws a dotted line between the lion and the Lamb. When Lucy asks whether Aslan can be visited not just in Narnia but in our world, Aslan tells her yes. “But there I have another name,” he continues, in a line straight from the book. “You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”

That short speech preserves the book’s explicit, deeply spiritual underpinnings. And it marks Dawn Treader as a voyage of faith and belief. For, as Reepicheep says, “We have nothing, if not belief.”

Lewis also included a lot of magic in his books, and the film brings images to that as well. Lucy, for instance, both willingly and under duress reads spells from the magician’s spell book. It’s worth noting that in Lewis’ Dawn Treader , magic and the magician are clearly under Aslan’s authority, but the movie sometimes uncouples the magic from spirituality, making it feel more naturalistic. Aslan clearly disapproves of her dabbling. Still, it can be fairly said that it appears as though Lucy is playing around with the same kind of sorcery seen in Harry Potter or Charmed .

Sexual Content

Shimmering, translucent CGI naiads swim through the water, their feminine curves fairly evident at times. Lucy sees teens kissing in London.

Violent Content

Dawn Treader’ s action sequences, though frequent, don’t wander far afield from those found in classic swashbucklers starring Errol Flynn. And they’re far less traumatic than those seen in the previous Narnia film, Prince Caspian . There are swordfights aplenty, and a few slave traders are thrown off buildings or take tumbles into the drink. But there’s no blood and no painfully obvious deaths.

There is, however, a pretty scary sea serpent that attacks the Dawn Treader as it sails toward Dark Island. The serpent is toothy, ugly and ever so mean, and it might well frighten younger moviegoers right out of their landlubber shoes. Also, Eustace, as a dragon, gets stabbed with a sword, and we see the remains of some of the lords Caspian is searching for. (One of them has been turned into a statue of gold. Another is a skeleton.)

The film tames down Eustace’s transformation back into a boy considerably from what the book indicates. Rather than showing Aslan ripping the flesh off a little boy—a scene that would’ve likely taken the film into PG-13 territory, according to Walden Media president Michael Flaherty—the scaly disrobing is treated to a one-step remove, where the skin magically falls off as Aslan claws the ground.

Crude or Profane Language

“Fool,” “pipsqueak,” “coot” and “sap” get tossed around in a name-calling context. There’s an interjection of “oh god.”

Drug and Alcohol Content

Other negative elements.

Someone is described as smelling like the “hind end of a minotaur.” A little girl, against her father’s explicit wishes, stows away aboard the Dawn Treader. Back in England, Edmund lies about his age to try to enlist for the war.

If The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was cautious and Prince Caspian grim, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is, quite simply, fun—a cinematic adventure that retains the spirit (both literarily and theologically) of Lewis’ original treasure. It even, incredibly, gives audiences a hint of his humor. As such, it is without question the best of the series so far.

It’s far from a slavish reproduction, mind you: Fans of the novel will find that the filmmakers took license at times. But the result is just a mouse hair short of wonderful. Dawn Treader is a classic children’s adventure in the vein of Treasure Island , Swiss Family Robinson or Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory that takes audiences to a fantastic place and gives them the license to imagine themselves in it. While some movies can stifle creativity—smothering imagination under a blanket of CGI and storytelling orthodoxy— Dawn Treader encourages it. Had I seen this film when I was 8, I would’ve likely gone home and turned the living room into the Dawn Treader’s deck, filled with sofa cushion battlements and sails made from sheets.

Before this film, I think the cinematic Narnia series was a little like Lucy, looking enviously at big-sister Susan. Maybe it was trying too hard to be the next Lord of the Rings or aspire to Harry Potter -level success. It worked so hard to be literary and spectacular that, just maybe, it forgot what the Narnia books were at their core: children’s stories. Meaningful stories, yes. Good stories, absolutely, filled with allegorical heft and layers of meaning … but at their core, they’re meant to be fun .

Dawn Treader found the fun. For two hours, I was engrossed in a land I loved as a child and still love today. I was called into a magical world and I once again felt Aslan tugging at my heart. He wasn’t in my backyard, but it was the next best thing.

Paul Asay has been part of the Plugged In staff since 2007, watching and reviewing roughly 15 quintillion movies and television shows. He’s written for a number of other publications, too, including Time, The Washington Post and Christianity Today. The author of several books, Paul loves to find spirituality in unexpected places, including popular entertainment, and he loves all things superhero. His vices include James Bond films, Mountain Dew and terrible B-grade movies. He’s married, has two children and a neurotic dog, runs marathons on occasion and hopes to someday own his own tuxedo. Feel free to follow him on Twitter @AsayPaul.

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“ The Voyage of the Dawn Treader ” is a novel by Clive Staples Lewis in the genre of fantasy and the third book of the series “The Chronicles of Narnia”. It is a wonderful novel, which is about magic, eternal struggle of good and evil and of course about little and curious children, who always astonish the reader with their numerous brave adult deeds.

The novel has many interesting and exciting adventures that turn out to be dangerous for Lucy and Edmund, but this danger teaches the reader to be brave and fearless. The real world England and fairy-tale world Narnia that are present in the novel do not make the reader to be indifferent even from an adult audience.

This story proves that good always wins during the eternal struggle with evil and even if the reader is confident that it is impossible Prince Caspian urges to believe in a miracle. His courage is very unbeatable. It teaches young readers to be strong and sensitive from the little up, and adults are inspired to achieve goals. Vowing to save his father's friends, Prince Caspian repeatedly makes young readers to respect their parents and friends.

Uncertainty of the little heroine Lucy that she is not a beauty shows the reader that the appearance is not the most important thing. As people say, appearance is deceptive, because a person can be beautiful, but his soul can be terrible. Lucy tries to look like her older sister Susan, but the author proves that every person has his own unique beauty. Fortunately, Lucy realizes her fallacy.

Aslan , who is the great Lion and the creator of the world of Narnia, is a striking example of the faithful and honest ruler. With the help of this character, Lewis repeatedly shows how to be a patient and magnanimous ruler of the country. It is very important, when you always take care of the inhabitants, as Aslan does. Over time, people begin to appreciate your honesty. Then the order and peace will reign in the country.

Actually, the book does not have a deep and philosophical cognition, in which the author would talk about the importance of life, experiences that are in the struggle with own meaningless existence and death. “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” is a very kind and good fairy tale, which is filled with magic, various spells and even strange animals and monsters, which do not exist in our real life. Nevertheless, the novel makes a person be kinder and brave to be able to destroy the evil that appears everywhere.

Delight and the feeling of magic probably appear, when you read different fairy tales in childhood, and then, when you are an adult person you read them again to recollect this magic world. However, you want to read this novel endlessly because of its didactic plot. The reader remembers not only the plot and characters, but also the feelings and magical adventures, which cause happiness and memories about the childhood. This is a very kind fairy tale about a magical country, exciting adventures, epic exploits and of course children, who have an adult spirit.

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by fantasia_kitty · December 1, 2010

You’ve probably seen our story earlier today about RottenTomatoes getting their page up for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (which is up to 7 fresh ratings and 2 rottens so far). If you missed it, that can be seen here .

Here are a few additional reviews that are online and some highlights from each of them.

Guardian.co.uk:

It’s heartening to report that Dawn Treader arrives with confidence and bravado intact – the entirely expected stew of cod-medieval adolescent derring-do, attention-grabbing special effects, and sledgehammer moral lessons with nakedly religious overtones. You can’t help but be struck once again by the common elements the Narnia books have with Lord of the Rings; produced in the same dark, drab postwar years, attempting to reinforce the moral sense that Lewis and Tolkien presumably saw had been both drained and somehow redeemed by the war and its outcome. … The weaknesses, unfortunately, are human; like the Potter kids, performance anxiety is getting to the Pevensies. As they get older, in the real world, their self-consciousness increases, and acting abilities decline in inverse proportion. (The only benefit of delay in filming has been to manage the substantial time jump between this and the Prince Caspian movie fairly seamlessly.)

Crosswalk.com: (Includes pictures from the event.)

I had a spectacular experience after donning my 3D spectacles and enjoying the adaptation of the next C.S. Lewis masterpiece from book to screen. I’ve now seen the film in both 2D and 3D and enjoyed it both ways. And as someone who has read the book, I can also say that the film is a good and quite thrilling and moving adaptation—given a few creative liberties here and there. I have not been disappointed and plan on seeing it again when it releases in theaters.

FlickFeast.com:

Although I have not read the book and so cannot comment on how faithful the adaptation was, an enjoyable story it was. Early on we are introduced to a newcomer to the Chronicles, young cousin Eustace, played by Will Poulter. Having been a fan of his performance in Son of Rambow it was great to see him competently handle a wildly different character, and my fondness for him was strengthened by his humble and enthusiastic manner in person. The other stars were just fine too. I especially enjoyed Simon Pegg’s voiceover for the character Reepicheep, replacing Eddie Izzard in this chapter, and it is always a joy to hear the silky tone of Liam Neeson as Aslan. The film starts off with some strong effects seeing the protagonists swallowed up by a painting, the action then levels out as the story drags a little. However we are rewarded with a flourish of magical effects and excitement in the closing quarter: I loved the Ghostbuster ‘Stay Puft moment’. That combined with great camerawork and direction throughout make it quite a joy to watch. A must see family festive movie.

The Sydney Morning Herald: (Ironically this particular review has a video at the top that is probably the most negative review I’ve heard thus far.)

Lewis knew a thing or two about storytelling. And Apted knows a thing or two about directing. The British veteran of everything from the 7 Up documentaries to Gorillas in the Mist to The World Is Not Enough has a steady hand as he takes the Narnia wheel for the first time. Crucially, he never allows plot or characters to be overshadowed by special effects. The Dawn Treader may sail on 3D seas, but the 3D effects are subtle, not over-the-top. Apted doesn’t just want audiences flinching or squirming to avoid beasties and swords; he’d prefer to involve them via his narrative. Which is not to say the computer-generated effects aren’t well done. Tavros, Reepicheep and other digital characters blend seamlessly with the real actors. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader may not reinvent the fantasy genre, it may not transcend the medium, but it is an impressive feat of imagination.

Brisbane Times:

As the Harry Potter films have become longer, slower and ever more pretentious the Narnia jaunts have merrily skipped off in the opposite direction, here delivering an effects-driven romp that is shorter, tighter and, frankly, heaps more fun than the first two. The emphasis is on action and movement, with any engagement of matters deep & meaningful sticking to the roster of standard adventure themes about courage, inner strength, moral character and persistence, with any discussions restricted to the usual sandwich-board theme proclamations, along the lines of: “To defeat the darkness out there you must first defeat ther darkness within yourself.” A big improvement on the first two and a potent antidote to HP7.1, Narnia III is strongly recommended, whatever your Narnian status may be.

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Disheartening as these reviews may be, it should be kept in mind that one person's vantage point may not be the same as everyone else. I myself have known these changes from the very beginning but will not stop me from enjoying the movie tonight.

People can be critical at times; wanting every part of the movie to be as close a hair's width to the book. If this was the case, the LOTR would be longer than its current time. Even though VODT is a book fit to be translated into a film, there is still the fact that there are some areas that needed to be edited in order to create a movie that can appeal to a mixed audience. The episodic nature of the book will be quite boring to some people who may have not read the book at all.

I cannot say much further until I watch the movie, but to those people having second minds of watching, doubt not. 'Til then, sail on Dawn Treader!

Sorry for the double post. I thought I only sent it once. >.<

Yes Mr bookwyrm, How much of the Caspian/Susan romance was well developed in PC and how much of the Caspian/RD romance could be developed sufficiently in 112 minutes of moving from place to place. For heaven sake, this movie is not made for only you, it is also made for those who haven't read the books. If you watched the movies without reading the books and you find Caspian and Susan kissing in PC and then Caspian hinting at kissing RD in VDT, tell me you wouldn't ask questions about Caspian's loyalty in relationships! It is too early for caspian to kiss another woman after susan, although his kiss with susan shouldn't have come up in prince caspian at all. Besides the romance between Caspian and RD could be told as a flash back when introducing Rilian in the silver chair.

And besides, I am not whining. You and your cohort of critics may as well not write your opinions. After all, no one asked for them.

Just saw the movie today! It was awesome. Being in the Oz can be such a blessing at times. Theme-wise, the movie kept true to the novel. Events and plot-wise, some scenes were altered: 2 events from different islands occurred in the same location, Ramandu wasn't there (although in the book, he was only a minor character anyway) and I think as most of you people may know, the addition of the green mist.

I don't know about you guys, but I thought it was okay to jumble the chronology of the islands visited. It made more sense (most probably to those who haven't read the book)to have a mission to lift up this curse of some sorts through the use of the seven swords given during the Golden Age. It drives the whole story. People say its like a series of episodes but I think, its an ingenious way of melding the series of islands into one great adventure. It may be true that a build of mystery from an island to another is one of the key features of the novel, but I will say without a doubt that whatever the reason for the change, it created a more solid flowing story.

The Pevensies have matured into wonderful young adults, their acting superb, Georgie being the best Lucy I have seen and Skandar doing an magnificent portrayal of Edmund. The magical pool scene was one of the outstanding scenes of the film. Ben and Skandar depicted their characters' weakness and giving into temptation exceptionally well.

Will Poulter does an excellent job as being the annoying Eustace Clarence Scrubb. He establishes how I imagined Eustace to be (well except I was thinking of a brunet version of Will).

For those of you who said there wasn't any romance in the scenes between Caspian and Lilliandil, there was no real kissing, but Caspian being beguiled of Lilliandil's beauty and hoping earnestly that they could meet once again was enough incentive and reason for me to believe that that was something romantic going on.

Reepicheep's voice is adorable, noble and yet looking for some action. I was convinced that the voice fitted the noble mouse from the moment I heard his voice (well Simon Pegg's in reality) and saw him on screen. The silky voice of Aslan fills the senses with nostalgia and the Christian Allegorical overtones of the movie.

People complain of the deviations from the story but if my memory serves correct, there are a dozen "flaws" in the LWW comparable to VODT. Need I remind you of Mr Fox or how the White Witch actually died. Needless to say, people can be critical to the point where they dissect every individual line of the characters and examine whether their dialogue was realistic or not.

Going in a tangent, the introduction of the green mist might be creeping up to the introduction of Lady of the Green Kirtle. She has been building an army for a long time, and the (probable) use of the green mist to create an army of people sacrificed to appease this wretched curse may be a plausible event that the director included.

It would be nice of people can be less critical at times and just watch the movie as if its the first time you've even heard of the movie. The people in the theatre I've gone to, underwent a joyride of emotions: laughing, crying, pity for Eustace and joy of his redemption. Everyone fell into tears the moment Lucy bids her farewell to the world she has developed so much.

With much enthusiasm, I declare: For NARNIA!! Set sail Dawn Treader.

It's interesting what you said about the Lady of the Green Kirtle being foreshadowed by the mist. I had a feeling about that being the case as well, I'm glad I wasn't alone.

I still would have liked a few more character developments and a little more of the feeling of the source material.

(The addition of the slaves being fed to the mist and the "stowaway" addition wasn't the smartest move I felt. I get that it was done for the younger kids benefit, but I still didn't like it.)

I hope these filmmakers come to realize that C.S Lewis wrote these books to be felt and imagined, if you're going to do it visually, do it how you what to see it.

20th Century Fox once wanted a man to have his aliens speak in English, citing that children couldn't read the subtitles. The director mildly informed them that they would go with their parents, whom could read for them and it would bring them closer together and enjoy the movie together. That man was George Lucas and his movie? Star Wars.

Family entertainment is just that, for all ages.

The makers of VODT could have been much more serious and stick to the story just little better; but they aimed this one a little to squarely at kids sadly.

Just saw the movie today and I thought it was wonderful! I have read the books and Voyage of the Dawn Treader was my favorite out of all the Narnia books.

The movie did not exactly follow the book but in my opinion it did not loose the message, the magic and the essence of C.S Lewis' TVD. Yes, the islands were not in order and yes,Prince Caspian's love story did not really fully develop in the movie but it was visually wonderful and the storyline was fitting for the movie adaptation. Will Poulter, who played Eustace, definitely shined throughout this movie. His acting was spot-on and despite having urges to feel incredibly annoyed by him, you just can't help but love the guy. I feel disappointed that not a lot of people like it as much as I did, but I think it was mostly the fans who wanted to see the words in the book come to life. One should not come in the theater to expect a word for word adaptation because that is not going to happen, as with all book to film movies. I was just incredibly proud to see the essence, virtues and spirit of Narnia coming to life on screen and I hope that you all will too. 🙂

The movie did not exactly follow the book but in my opinion it did not loose the message, the magic and the essence of C.S Lewis’ TVD. Yes, the islands were not in order and yes,Prince Caspian’s love story did not really fully develop in the movie but it was visually wonderful and the storyline was fitting for the movie adaptation. Will Poulter, who played Eustace, definitely shined throughout this movie. His acting was spot-on and despite having urges to feel incredibly annoyed by him, you just can’t help but love the guy. I feel disappointed that not a lot of people like it as much as I did, but I think it was mostly the fans who wanted to see the words in the book come to life. One should not come in the theater to expect a word for word adaptation because that is not going to happen, as with all book to film movies. I was just incredibly proud to see the essence, virtues and spirit of Narnia coming to life on screen and I hope that you all will too. 🙂

A thought about the little girl as a stowaway. I wondered if part of the reason for her being there was:- one- to let Edmund and Lucy know how much they miss their mother (family)when they see how happy the little girl and father are to get their mother/wife back. Second:- so that when Lucy learns that she needs to love herself (don't we all) and the little girl says 'I want to grow up just like you' that gives Lusy the chance of saying 'She needs to grow up just like herself nobody else.' To me the little girl was a vehicle to be used to get an important message across.

It doesn't matter what others think, what matters is YOUR OPINION of the film, I have looked at these reviews and I seen out of about twenty, only five were bad, the numbers speak for themselves. Besides, people have to stop judging films based on the views of others, I will end up loving the film, like I did the last two

I am ever so slightly disappointed with the acting based on the clips we've seen so far but I'm going to try my best to make my own judgments after seeing the movie on the 10th….still can't wait 🙂

So can you point me to the person who asked for your opinion?

@ Bookwyrm, No one asked for mine, I was only pointing out that if you felt we optimists should skip reading your critical comments then you may as well decline from putting them up. To be honest, u really need to ZIP IT!!! If you don't like the movie, you don't have to ruin it for others. How am I sure u've watched it? PLEASE, appreciate the effort that has been put into making this movie. If you can't, at least don't discourage others.

Voyage of the Dawn Treader I just saw the film in Costa Rica! 50% disappointing! Too many changes from the original story. 🙁

I just saw the Voyage of the Dawn Treader in Costa Rica! 50% disappointing! Too many changes from the original story. 🙁

I have just seen the movie for the 3rd time. This time in 3D. I am not a fan of 3D. Things move around too fast and I get sea sick but I am VERY pleased with the soft touch that I experienced. The moive also had sourround sound which was interesting because the other two times I have seen it (at a smaller theatre) didn't have that.

I went to a much larger theatre at 10.30am Saturday to see if the numbers would be different. 25 the first viewing, 40 the second and EIGHT!!!!! this time.

Come on Austrlia what are you all playing at. I think the movie is great. Yes I know it is not the same as the book but they never are.

The people who created this movie are trying to please BILLIONS of people.It will NEVER HAPPEN!!! I think they have done a great job. Also, as a foot note, take your tissues, it gets to my heart everytime.

Apologies Meygan, I didn't intend my comment to look like it was aimed at yours.

Yes, I said that because I'm sick of someone posting about something they're unhappy with in this film and all the movie fanboys rushing in posting complaints in illiterate chatspeak and/or all-caps. And no, I will not be "zipping it". My opinion is just as valid as yours and, again, if you don't like it, don't read it.

Wow, no surround sound? The excellent sound is half the reason to go see a movie in theaters.

Honestly, expecting the performance of a fully trained and experienced adult actor from a child is absurd. Not sure why these critics keep expecting it. Sure, there's a few kids who are brilliant actors practically from birth, but they're the exception, not the rule. Skandar and Georgie certainly aren't the best child actors out there, but they're a lot better than some adult actors I could name.

I am sorry to hear this from you but this could be said for the two previous films. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe strayed away as far as Prince Caspian and Dawn Treader from their respective novels. This however did not change the fact that the movies were in every sense magnificent.

If the books were followed, we'd have a series of movies all based on the same book much like the BBC versions. Some of you guys might have heard the movie, Legends of the Guardians. The movie literally condensed the first 3 and 1/2 books into a movie. Many things were taken out and added in.

That is the problem about turning novels into movies, people will often become disappointed because it did not meet their own expectations. The directors are trying to make a movie that has general appeal and can be understood by most people. Since watching it yesterday, I have gone and revisited the previous movies with the respective books at hand.

Beginning with LWW, one of the first things that was changed was how the Pevensies enter Narnia as a whole. In the book, they run away from Mrs McReady because she has brought "her gang with her". This is in contrast to the more action filled way of trying to run away from her "wrath" due to breaking a window and toppling down an suit of armour. The addition of Mr Fox is another deviation from the book. Another example is the extent of the Jadis' wand's power. In the book, all she needed was to direct her wand towards the unlucky victim in order to turn them into stone. In the movie, there needed to be direct contact with the victim in order to petrify them. These are only some of the major deviations of the first movie adaptation. Even though this was the case, so many people have declared that the movie was an astounding adaptation of one of the most well renowned novels of all time.

As Narnia fans have expressed, Prince Caspian was supposedly a flop. It wasn't. The story deviated as well but did not stop it from depicting the Narnian spirit. This story involved politics which some people might have boring or not in accordance with the first book's sense of adventure and awe. It was rather unfortunate that the movie didn't live up to some people's expectations but all in all it wasn't a disaster at all. It was a learning curve.

I might be reinstating myself but Dawn Treader is a work of art, however how many people may be critiquing the acting. From the very start, some people have already trying to undermine and insult the children's acting. Truth be told, everything is subjective.

I have read a review asking why on Earth was Lucy trying to act grown up, being like her sister. Clearly the person had no idea that this was part of the book in the first place. The addition of Gael as a way of getting Lucy to acknowledge the fact that it is better to be herself than someone she wasn't and will not be.

Rhince's background was a clean slate from the book. It didn't hurt to introduce a story line about his family in order to appeal to Edmund and Lucy's own longing to join their family.

Whatever the reasons, I hope you change your mind. I for one am hoping for the Silver Chair to be produced for each us our enjoyments. ^^,

Long time since I've been around Narniaweb (waves to fellow moderators!) I saw the movie yesterday in 3D and was a bit ho-hum afterwards. The effects are good, the art direction is perfect, the acting is decent (Ben Barnes is much better than in PC without the accent, and Will Poulter is great – unfortunately highlighting the fact that the Pevensies aren't quite up to his acting standard, earnest as they are).

I thought the alterations to the story (and there were many – this film is LOOSELY based on the book, moreso than the first two in essentials of plot) cheapened the adaptation and made it feel rather "generic kiddy adventure sword-and-sorcery" in places. However, many plot elements (funnily enough, those that were closest to the book) were excellent. I have no idea why they decided to shove an extra little girl in the story but she was pointless to the extreme. The blue star and the seven swords and the "mist" seemed silly and unnecessary. Dufflepud episode was brilliantly done, and the Lone Islands was really creepy and evocative. Dark Island scenario sadly was a mess. Eustace really drives the story and you go from hating him to cheering for him.

It was an enjoyable romp and certainly had a more Narnian tone than the first two, but I don't think I'll see it again at the cinema. Might buy the DVD…

Oh, and I ADORED the closing credits!!!!!!!!!! Just…..perfect and such an outstanding tribute to Pauline Baynes. Best closing credits I've ever seen.

Also, I live in Sydney (Australia) and every single bus stop the length of the main strip in the city is plastered with giant VODT posters, also down by the Opera House. A LOT of posters for a VERY long way. Very smart advertising. Basically if you're anywhere in the city, you'll be aware the movie is out. They're eye-catching and while on the bus I saw a lot of people staring out the windows at them as we passed.

Be that as it may, there weren't many people in my screening, however the movie was only released on Thursday. I think viewing numbers are going to build hugely as kids start their December summer holidays soon.

Don't worry about it, I think we're having some sort of glitch since several people have ended up with double-posts.

Actually, the book never shows Lucy trying to be like Susan. Go back and reread the Magician's Book scene. It clearly describes Lucy as being so beautiful that Susan is plain in comparison and jealous over it. Lucy doesn't want to be Susan, she wants to be better than Susan so Susan can be the overlooked, unappreciated sister for a change. Beauty just happens to be the thing people gush over. If Susan had been known as rather intelligent, it probably would have been an intelligent beyond the lot of mortals spell Lucy would have been tempted to use. It's a shame this rather more complex story subplot has been replaced with "I'm jealous of Susan and want to be just like her to the point that I no longer exist."

Thank you for pointing that out. In any case, there was jealousy of Susan being the centre of attention because of her beauty. They may have altered it a bit but the jealousy still exist. You could say that Lucy wanted to be herself but 100x better due jealousy of Susan getting attention as well of her looks.

Oh, now u r bringing in the issue of literacy, so childish. GROW UP. I never set out to write in chat-style but I am so glad I did cos some ppl r not just worth d effort.

Right from the start, I wasn't replying your comment. But you in all your 'Glorious' immaturity thought you had the right to tell me to stop whining while you had the right to post your critical statements. THE MOVIE IS MADE FOR BOTH READERS OF THE BOOKS AND NON READERS. THE MOVIE HAS THE THEMES OF THE BOOK, EVEN THE RELIGIOUS ASPECTS HAVE BEEN INCLUDED. What exactly do you want, to find the exact same words of the book in the movie so you can repeat them as they are being said? Appreciate the fact that years of hard work has been put into making this movie. LOOK AT THE BRIGHT SIDE OF IT AND STOP ACTING LIKE YOU'VE HAD AN ENCOUNTER WITH A DEMENTOR!!!

You are correct in every sense, books and films are different mediums, while you can write hundreds and hundreds of pages for a book, you have running time and bugdet constrictions, therefore changes have to be made. Lion witch and the wardrobe had many changes, so did prince caspian, and so will the other four films next.

Films and books both give enjoyment, but on different levels. If people moan about the differences, then it will affect the peoples opinions on if they want to watch the film or not, therefore the film could fail in the box office. I do not care for the negativity, there will be some, but I want this film to do well because I want to see all seven books protrayed for the first time. because strangely the bbc stopped at silver chair.

Enjoy the film or hate it, but I for one want it to succeed.

well said! I think this film will do well due to its aim towards the younger auidence (though it isnt gonna stop an 18 year old man like me) plus it is revered as the favourite narnia book (though in my opinion, silver chair comes very close)

Agreed the movie is very different from the book. If you can set that aside for a momment though, ask yourself, was this a great film full of beauty, adventure, and a yearning for goodness? The answer is "yes" and I for one am glad this movie has been made!

I am SOOO GLAD to here what you have to say. Here on the Gold Coast there is very little.Hungry Jacks are doing little figurines and that is being advertised on the TV. I haven't been to other movies to see if it is being advertised before the other movie. Hope so. I will tell the few people I know. I LOVED the movie and hope that they make ALL of them. For my part The Horse and His Boy is my favourite story.

I agree that Eustace was good. He had to be because if they do make The Silver Chair, he and whoever they choose for Jill Pole will have to carry the whole movie and the whole franchise will depend on how people take to them. It is most important that they get Puddleglum right.

There is also the fact that people compare the present installment with The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. People always expect everything to live up to the the very first book or movie of a series. They see the the LWW as a way of critiquing every other part of the chronicles. They expect it to be the guideline and standard by which other movies are made. However, each individual movie is that, individual. As intended by Lewis, each book is its self contained story, loosely interconnected but acting as a whole story at the same time.

Just wondering if anyone else noted (which I shall not go into too much detail because others haven't seen the movie yet) that there are four things wrong. You now, things like a character had something on one side of their body and now it is on the other, things like that.

I thought they paid people to check up on all this sort of stuff.

In a way I'm kinda scared for SC. VDT is being heavily marketed as returning to the magic of the first film. I haven't read the books for a while but if I remember right SC doesn't have the same magic does it? Hopefully people wont mind the rollar coaster ride

here's another review

http://www.joriben.com/2010/12/end-of-era-and-blazing-beginning-narnia.html

I just saw the VDT with my mother and we both hated this movie.I have grown up watching original BBC movies and fell in love with them and read the books tons of times. I was so excited to hear that they were remaking the movies, and they have been nothing but a disappointment. The effects were cool, and we wasted the money to see it in real 3D, we could have saved the money and saw it in normal 2D, dont plan on seeing it again, and I hope that if they make The SC it is much better.

Just saw the latest Narnia movie, the voyage of the Dawn Treader. It is the best one yet. Hope you go see it. 12/13/10

i watched it last saturday and im going to see it again with my mate because its that good in 3d can,t wait keep the narnia films coming out

I agree with you, Blue Skies. It is important to be a purest in most things, all things that have value anyway. To sacrifice moral thought for action and big-ticket draws is very sad. What was up with:… *The lost concept of Eustace's "undragoning"? *The meaning of the binding bracelet? *The conditions of the braking of the curse of the three sleeping lords, where Reep had to sail alone to the Eastern shore? *No lamb image concept at the end? *The pevensies and Caspian on the eastern shore at the end?

I could go on but I'm sure it is of no concern to the lot of the public. But WE should be concerned. I was taught that you either stand for something or fall for everything. You either show the whole truth or not at all. The fact that truth is so watered down with have truths or no truths at all is a testament to why no one has a clue as to what to believe in anymore. Why make the movie except to make money? Can anyone tell me why an agnostic director even cares about a christian-based book series? Such a distortion. And so very, very sad.

I am saddened that the writers did not take advantage of the excellent opportunities C.S. Lewis gave them to make an awesome movie. They added things that were not in the book, and frankly, did not make the story line any better or viewer friendly. The movie was rushed, disoriented and incredibly dissapointing. I'm not sure I'll even bother wasting time or money on The Silver Chair, if they make a movie for that one. C.S. Lewis would be so sad over this, I imagine. He wrote a really amazing story and Hollywood is ruining it.

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Lucy and Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace where they meet up with Prince Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal ship The Dawn Treader. Along the way they encounter dragons, dwarves, merfolk, and a band of lost warriors before reaching the edge of the world.
Lucy and Edmund Pevensie are stranded in Cambridge, living in the house of their obnoxious cousin Eustace, while the grown-ups Susan and Peter are living in the USA with their parents. When a painting of a ship sailing on the sea of Narnia overflows water in their room, Lucy, Edmund and Eustace are transported to the ocean of Narnia and rescued by King Caspian and the crew of the ship The Dawn Treader. Caspian explains that Narnia has been in peace for three years but before he took his throne back, his uncle tried to kill the seven lords of Telmar, who were the closest and most loyal friends of his father. They fled to The Lone Island and no one has ever heard anything about them. Now Caspian is seeking out the lords of Telmar with his Captain Drinian, the talking mouse Reepicheep and his loyal men. Soon, they discover that an evil form of green mist is threatening Narnia and the siblings and their cousin join Caspian in a quest to retrieve the seven swords of the seven lords of Telmar to save Narnia from evil. — Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Along with a cousin, two of the four siblings return to Narnia to fight a new kind of threat. Reuniting with friends, they must seek a way to defeat the threat that can destroy Narnia. Along the way, they all learn multiple things about life and survival. — RECB3
Edmund Pevensie (Skandar Keynes), almost but not quite an adult, envies adult men. He tries to enlist in His Majesty's Army, but the recruiter, of course, catches him out with his fake I.D., especially when his sister Lucy (Georgie Henley) reminds him that he was supposed to help her with grocery shopping. Lucy envies any girl whom she thinks is prettier than she. The problem is that her only standards of beauty are her older sister Susan (Anna Popplewell), now in America, and any other girl who is hanging on the arm of a young man. Edmund and Lucy have another problem. Because the war still rages, they are evacuated once again. Only while Peter (William Moseley) and Susan are evaculated all the way to America, Edmund and Lucy are evacuated, not to Professor Digory Kirke's country estate (see The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe), but to the home of their obnoxious cousin, Eustace Clarence Scrubb (Will Poulter). Eustace has no social graces whatsoever and would like nothing better than to treat Edmund and Lucy as he would treat any of the arthropods in his considerable, and repulsive, collection. One afternoon, Lucy and Edmund are alone in the room that Edmund has to share with Eustace. They notice a painting on a wall--a painting of a ship on an ocean, a ship that looks very much like one of the ships they once sailed in the world of Narnia, where once they had reigned as a king and a queen. Only as they stare at the painting, the water seems to move, and the ship seems to come right at them. Eustace enters, and makes fun of them for indulging, as he sees it, in a flight of fancy. But then the seawater starts to *spill into the room.* Eustace, panicked, tears the painting off the wall, but that does no good. In the next instant, the room is full of water, rising until they are swimming in it. Soon they are underwater, and rising up to the surface of a real ocean. And there comes the ship, big as life! The crew of that ship pick them up at once. Edmund and Lucy discover, to their delight, that the ship is actually Narnian. The distinguished passenger on board is none other than King Caspian (Ben Barnes), with whom they had fought a successful war three years before (in Narnian time; see Prince Caspian). Eustace is thoroughly affronted, especially with a Talking Mouse (Simon Pegg) who protests that he was only trying to resuscitate him! To make matters worse, a walking, talking Minotaur (Shane Rangi) tells him that he is aboard the Dawn Treader, "the finest ship in the Narnian Navy!" Caspian welcomes Edmund and Lucy on board as honored guests. Then, after outfitting them both in Narnian clothing, he gives Lucy her dagger and medicinal cordial (and Susan's bow and arrows), and offers Edmund his old electric torch, which he had left behind. Now Caspian reveals his mission. He is looking for the Seven Lost Lords of Narnia, friends of his father's whom Lord Protector Miraz had driven into exile. They had fled to the Lone Islands, and no one has heard from them since. Caspian's mission: to rescue or recover them. Reepicheep the Talking Mouse has a mission of his own: he wants to travel to the literal end of the world, and find the country of Aslan (Liam Neeson), the lion-shaped God-King of the world of Narnia. Lucy thoroughly enjoys the sights and sounds of Narnia. Edmund and Caspian entertain the crew with a fencing match. Eustace stubbornly insists that he "never lost" his "sea legs." Eustace boasts that he will find the British Consulate, as if Britain even *has* a consulate in this world. But all this idle talk stops, as the Dawn Treader comes within sight of land: Narrowhaven, capital city on the largest of the Lone Islands, their immediate destination. Tavros the Minotaur, who obviously serves as boatswain on board, orders two longboats fitted out. In them, Caspian leads a landing party ashore. Edmund, Lucy, Eustace, and Reepicheep are all part of it. They find Narrowhaven deserted, and Caspian and the children go further inland to investigate. Inside an empty hall, they find ledgers showing purchases and sales--of slaves. Just then, the slavers rappel down ropes and attack. Lucy, Edmund, and Caspian handily fight off the attackers, but Eustace is easily seized, and used as leverage to capture all four of them. In the dungeon into which the slavers throw them, they find Lord Bern (Terry Norris), first of the Seven Lords, who has been a prisoner for many years. Bern recognizes Caspian as his king and tells him what has befallen Narrowhaven. Then they watch as the slavers take a cartload of very frightened slaves, load them into a longboat, and shove it out to sea--where an animated green mist suddenly appears, washes over them, and then disappears--with the slaves. Lord Bern tells Caspian that his six companions set out to find the source of the mist, and never returned. Bern has reproached himself ever since for not going with them. The next day, the slavers try to sell the children at auction. An apparent buyer shows up--who is actually Lord Drinian (Gary Sweet), captain of Dawn Treader, and enough men-at-arms to take over the town and set all the slaves at liberty. Eustace tries to steal away in a longboat, but succeeds only in decking another slaver who tries to kill him before the other Narnians show up. A distraught man of Narrowhaven name Rhince (Arthur Angel), seeking to find his wife Helaine (Rachel Blakely), who was on the last longboat devoured by the mists, signs on with Dawn Treader's crew. Lord Bern then retrieves a sword he has kept all this time, one of seven swords that Aslan gave to the Seven Lords. Bern gives this to Caspian, who then gives it to Edmund to use while he is in Narnia. Dawn Treader sets sail to go further east. Eustace keeps a diary, always assuming that everything around him is an illusion. And then on his first full night on board, he tries to steal water and food from the ship's rations. Reepicheep catches him at it, and the two fight a quick duel, Reepicheep with his sword, and Eustace with the first weapon he finds handy: a galley knife. The fight is almost one-sided, except that Reepicheep is trying more to train Eustace in swordfighting than to do him any real harm. Then Eustace falls over a bundle--that turns out to be a little girl, Gael (Arabella Morton), Rhince and Helaine's daughter, who desperately wants to find her mother. Captain Drinian says nothing about the attempted ration theft, and simply welcomes the little girl as "an extra crewmember." Lucy takes to Gael quickly and acts as her protector. Dawn Treader next fetches up at another apparently uninhabited island. Only this island *is* inhabited, by invisible men who hop about on one foot each--but are quite capable of abducting someone. They abduct Lucy and bring her into the garden of a mansion several yards inland (a mansion that is also invisible, and by the same means: a magic spell). They want her to go into this mansion, find a book of spells, and recite a spell to render them visible once again. Lucy reluctantly does so, especially after the voices tell her that they can neither read nor write. Caspian finds Lucy missing and awakens Edmund and the other members of the landing party (except Eustace, who sleeps on). Inside the mansion, Lucy finds the spell book, which she cannot open until she breathes upon it. She finds all sorts of spells inside, including a spell to make snow (she tries it, with success), and a spell to make one beautiful. She tears that page out, and then an angry lion's voice roars at her, rustling the pages. Then she hears Aslan's voice calling her name, after she looks into a mirror and sees her sister Susan's face. Now Lucy returns to the business at hand: she finds the spell to make things visible and says it. Just in time, too, for the inhabitants have captured Caspian and the landing party. When they become visible again, they let their guard down and tell all. Lucy reappears, and introduces Coriakin (Bille Brown), the master of the island. Coriakin apologizes for rendering the monopods ("Dufflepuds") invisible, saying that he had to protect them from "The Evil", i.e., the force behind the Green Mist. Now Coriakin has something to reveal: an animated, interactive chart of the eastern part of the Great Ocean. He tells Caspian, Edmund, Lucy, and Eustace that they must proceed to Aslan's Table, with a Blue Star to guide them, and lay upon it all of the Seven Swords of Aslan. But he also warns them: "You are all about to be tested." That applies equally to Caspian (who has always felt that he was not the king his father was) as it does to Lucy, Edmund, and Eustace. Dawn Treader then sets out again, this time sailing into a storm. Fourteen days effectively dampen everyone's spirits, except those of Reepicheep, who is hearty enough to accept anything as part of the adventure. Even Captain Drinian is reluctant, but Caspian insists on pressing on and reminds Drinian sharply that they have taken on a crewman and his daughter, who are very eager to find their loved one. During the storm, Lucy has the bad sense to try out the beauty spell. With the result that she becomes Susan, and finds herself with her brothers Peter (William Moseley) and Edmund in America. Problem: no such person as Lucy, and no Narnia, either. Now thoroughly frightened, Lucy awakes with a scream, to find herself face-to-face with Aslan. Aslan chides her for wishing herself away, and doubting her own value--for without Lucy, the Pevensies would never have found Narnia. Lucy, having learned her lesson, burns the beauty spell. The Green Mist briefly appears, and then moves out to the quarters that Edmund and Caspian share. Edmund wakes up to hear a voice he never wanted to hear again: that of his ancient temptress and cruel enemy, the White Witch of Narnia (Tilda Swinton). Then the Mist retreats when Lucy walks in on the boys to say that she could not sleep. Edmund knows why. The next day, the Dawn Treader puts ashore at yet another island. This one is uninhabited for real. Edmund, Lucy, and Caspian descend into a cave, where they find a pool of water with a golden statue at the bottom. Edmund tries to probe it with a broken-off branch--and the branch turns to gold in his hand. Then they realize that the statue is actually one of the Seven Lords, Restimar, now "aurified" and dead. They know that they must retrieve Restimar's sword--but Edmund is much taken with realizing that anything dipped into the pool turns to gold. He sees riches for himself, and Caspian sees a resource over which he, as king, should take dominion. Then the two start to argue, and only Lucy's intervention keeps the two from killing each other in a duel. And so they retrieve the sword and leave the pool alone. Eustace, meanwhile, goes off exploring on his own--and finds a rock defile filled with more treasure than he has ever seen in one place: gold, silver, and gemstones, all for the taking. He finds a skeleton (actually that of Lord Octesian) and puts on a gold bracelet that the skeleton had been wearing. That is a mistake. In the next scene, Caspian and Edmund set out to find Eustace, who they assume has strayed form camp. They find his clothing and diary, and fear the worst for him. They then recognize Octesian's remains and recover his sword. Then, out of nowhere, a winged, fire-breathing dragon swoops down from the mountains and alights on Dawn Treader's spar. Drinian leads his men-at-arms in a futile attempt to shoot the dragon off, and then Reepicheep climbs the mast and embeds his tiny sword into the dragon's talon. The dragon shrieks, jumps off, and flies back ashore--where he finds Edmund and Caspian, scoops up Edmund in his talons, and carries him inland, where Edmund reads this legend, burnt into the rocks: I AM EUSTACE. Edmund and Caspian realize the terrible truth: the dragon's treasure turned Eustace himself into a dragon. Lucy manages to relieve Eustace of Octesian's bracelet, which now hurts him terribly. Caspian observes that everyone in the world of Narnia knows that a dragon's treasure is enchanted, hence dangerous to collect or even to touch. Lucy, Edmund, Caspian, Gail, and Reepicheep agree to stay on the island overnight to keep Eustace company and decide how best to accommodate Eustace. Reepicheep actually warms to Eustace and tells him some of his favorite adventure stories. Eustace, unable to communicate, at least seems glad of the company. Reepicheep also suggests to Eustace that his transformation is a sign of an "extraordinary destiny" to come. In the next morning, the Blue Star appears to them. Dawn Treader embarks, with Eustace flying alongside. A mermaid tries to warn Lucy that they should sail no further; Lucy does not understand, and Caspian is determined to press on. Soon the ship is becalmed, and the men must fall to with their oars with grumblings from them of desiring to eat the dragon if the ship does not find land to resupply soon. However, Eustace wraps his tail around the ship's figurehead and takes it in tow. To that, the crew lets out a lusty cheer of approval upon realization that Eustace is now a valuable asset to the ship That night, Dawn Treader lands at yet another island--Rhamandu's Island, where Aslan's Table is always spread. There the crew find three more of the Lords (Revilian, Argoz, and Mavramorn), not dead but fast asleep and tangled in their own beards. At Caspian's direction, they recover the swords that the Three Lords carried. They lay these, and the swords they brought with them, on the table--but they make only six. They still must recover one more. Then the Blue Star appears to them, and takes the form of a young woman--Liliandil (Laura Brent). She encourages them to eat freely of the fruit of Aslan's Table, and assures them that the three Lords are under a sleeping spell only for their own good, to stop them from killing one another, as they almost did. Liliandil then tells them that they must sail on to one more island: the Dark Island, source of the Green Mist and of every man's nightmare. There Lord Rhoop (Bruce Spence), carrying the last sword, walks that island, mad with fear. This will be their greatest hazard, for the island will make any man's nightmare take real form. Still they sail on to the island, with all hands armed. (Caspian gives his sword, that once belonged to Peter, to Edmund; Edmund gave up his sword at Aslan's Table.) Reepicheep struggles to give Eustace a pep talk, to remind him that, as a dragon, he has much better natural armor and weapons than any other hand aboard, and so should not flinch from battle. As Dawn Treader approaches the Dark Island, the Green Mist reaches out to it, though the men do their best to ignore it. Rhince sees a vision of his missing wife. Drinian sees a thick fog, that robs him of sight. Caspian sees a vision of his father, Caspian IX (Nathaniel Parker), dressing him down. Edmund sees the White Witch, who offers him the same thing that she once offered him many years before: to make him her king. Then they hear Lord Rhoop, shouting at them to keep off. Rhoop bears the Seventh Sword, as everyone thought he would. Rhoop is reluctant to come aboard, but Eustace simply flies to the island, scoops up Rhoop, and sets him on board. Rhoop acknowledges Caspian and warns Caspian that they must put out to sea at once and not think too much. But Edmund thinks of a Great Sea Serpent, which now takes form and attacks the ship. Eustace flies into battle and attacks the Serpent with all the fire he has--but the Serpent takes Eustace in his jaws, flings him this way and that, and throws him onto the rocks. Eustace recovers and blows more fire on the Serpent. Rhoop then foolishly throws his sword at the Serpent. He misses--and the sword embeds itself in Eustace' shoulder. Eustace flies off to Rhamadu's Island and makes a hard belly landing on the sand, as the Sea Serpent wraps itself around Dawn Treader, threatening to crush her. Edmund and Caspian seek to steer Dawn Treader toward the rocks, to ram the Serpent. Edmund challenges the Serpent, using Peter's old sword, while Caspian struggles with the wheel. Caspian's strategy is successful: they manage to stun the Serpent by slamming its head into a rock. Eustace, on the sand bar, wakes up. Aslan appears to him, and with a roar, burns off Eustace' dragon skin. Eustace wakes up, finding himself back in his old form, and with the Seventh Sword nearby. He takes it in hand and realizes that he is on Rhamandu's Island and can walk into the room of Aslan's Table. So while Dawn Treader's crew continue their desperate fight with the Serpent, and Edmund must struggle again with the temptation of the White Witch, Eustace races to the table and lays the last Sword on top of the other Six. The Mist tries to stop Eustace, but he disperses it with the sword. Edmund, of course, can't see Eustace doing this. But suddenly Peter's original sword, which he is carrying, turns bright blue. He realizes at once that the sword now is far more powerful than it ever was. So, though the White Witch (or her apparition) tries to dissuade him, he impales the Serpent with it. The Serpent dies and falls to the shallow bottom. The deep darkness lifts, and Dawn Treader is in daylight again. At Aslan's Table, the Three Lords awaken--and at the Dark Island, now no longer dark, every longboat of slaves that had gone to the Green Mist now comes out to meet Dawn Treader. Rhince and Gael are reunited with Helaine. Eustace then finds himself in the water, swimming to Dawn Treader. Reepicheep jumps in to rescue Eustace--and then they realize that the water is no longer sour, but sweet. Dawn Treader has now come within sight of Aslan's Country. Caspian, Lucy, Edmund, Eustace, and Reepicheep set out alone in a longboat to Aslan's Shore--which has a permanent, stationary breaker of surf on it. Aslan joins them there and informs them that their journey is at an end. Caspian, knowing that he would never return from an adventure into Aslan's Country, decides at the last instant to turn back, and go back to Narnia to govern it properly. Reepicheep is welcomed permanently into Aslan's Country, as has always been his destiny. Edmund says it's time for him, Lucy and Eustace to return home. Lucy understands that for her and Edmund, this is their last time in Narnia; they won't be returning. Aslan tells the Pevensies that they must now learn the name that Aslan bears on Earth, and their time on Narnia was intended to help them do that. Eustace is assured that he might be needed on Narnia once more, in the future. Aslan then sends Lucy, Edmund, and Eustace back to earth, back the way they came. They find themselves back in the room in Eustace' house. Eustace hangs the fallen painting back on the wall--and in it, Dawn Treader is sailing away from them. The film ends with Eustace' last diary record: that in the days that followed, the children spoke often of Narnia, and when the Pevensies leave, as they do once the war ends, Eustace will miss them. (But in a hint of the next intended sequel, Alberta Scrubb, Eustace' mother, shouts up to Eustace that a little girl named Jill Pole has stopped in for a visit.)

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Full Title: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
When Written: 1949–1952
Where Written: Oxford, England
When Published: 1952
Literary Period: Post-World War II
Genre: Middle Grade Novel, Fantasy
Setting: Narnia
Climax: The Dawn Treader goes as far east as it can.
Antagonist: Temptation
Point of View: Third Person Omniscient

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Bad Timing. Many well-known authors receive renewed interest in their work when news of their death breaks. This mostly didn’t happen for Lewis because he died an hour before the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Surprise! Lewis wrote an autobiography called Surprised by Joy about his experience with Christianity. Shortly after, he met a woman named Joy Gresham for the first time and eventually married her.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

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Upon returning to Narnia to join Prince Caspian for a voyage on the majestic royal vessel known as "The Dawn Treader," Lucy, Edmund and their cousin Eustace encounter merfolk, dragons, dwarves and a wandering band of lost warriors. As the edge of the world draws near, their remarkable adventure at sea sails toward an exciting, yet uncertain, conclusion.

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Chronicles of Narnia Cast and Character Guide

Quick links, mr. tumnus introduces fans to the magical world, eustace scrubb was a cousin of the pevensie's, jadis/the white witch is the most famous villain of the series, prince caspian leads narnia after the pevensies, aslan is the god of narnia, edmund pevensie was the villain turned hero of the original sibilings, lucy pevensie showed fans the magic of narnia, susan pevensie was the skeptic of the family, peter pevensie helped to liberate narnia.

The Chronicles of Narnia 's media has undergone some big adaptations on film and television over the decades. From a very theatrical black-and-white TV film from 1967, and an animated film in 1979, to the romantic and glowing magic of the BBC's three TV series spanning from 1988 to 1990, Narnia was inspiring on film to get children and adults alike to revisit the books.

Then in 2005, Disney took on the series in three films, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe , Prince Caspian , and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader , bolstering the series with bombastic CGI, costumes and armor from Weta Workshops, and an epic score by Harry Gregson-Williams and David Arnold, new audiences could experience the magic for the first time. With the news that Greta Gerwig will be rebooting the Narnia franchise with Netflix , it's due time to get a refresher on some of the top characters featured in the series, who they were, and how they developed throughout the Disney films as well as the books.

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A big widespread debut for James McAvoy was his portrayal of Mr. Tumnus in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe . This delightful and conflicted fawn would be Lucy's first impression of the people of Narnia, and also, of readers. This Faun's home was the epitome of cozy cottage core before it had a name and echoes the inspirations likely exchanged between C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien when talking of Hobbits and fey creatures.

Mr. Tumnus goes through a great deal of development throughout The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe , from cowering and afraid Faun to sacrificing himself to save Lucy from The White Witch. This leads to his petrification, but luckily not for long. Mr. Tumnus would eventually become special advisor to the Kings and Queens of Narnia and makes appearances in The Horse and His Boy and The Last Battle books.

One of the less likable children from Earth in the Narnia series, Eustace takes some time to develop and grow as he is constantly bullied and ridiculed in school. Although C.S. Lewis wrote this character to exemplify the things he despised in whinier children, he gave Eustace a chance to grow through the adventures he experienced, learning bravery and optimism amid harsh circumstances. Eustace's perspective in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader book is heavily documented since much of the book is told through his diary entry perspectives.

Soon enough, Eustace learned that he was being selfish and tried to take lessons from his crew mates and cousins, rather than disregard them. One very notable teaching moment is when his greediness over a dragon's hoard he finds turns him into a dragon. His lesson learned Eustace uses his new form to help the crew and finally make himself useful. This adventure and his progress would eventually lead him to return to The Silver Chair , for a much darker adventure full of giants, sorcerers, dark swamps, and deep mines.

Jadis, The White Witch of Narnia is one of the most wickedly vile antagonists of the Narnia books and movies. For many, seeing The White Witch played by Tilda Swinton was many people's first time seeing her in a Hollywood film. Although Tilda Swinton's overall design and looks were very different from the original description of The White Witch, her icy character and sly and tempting ways still froze through the hearts of audiences. She would make such an impact, that even Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader would include her in the story as well, even though she never appears in the original literature.

That being said, The White Witch is the main antagonist in the book The Magician's Nephew as well, a book that many in the Narnia fandom hope will be made in the upcoming run of reboot films by Greta Gerwig. The White Witch is said to be one of the "Northern Witches" and possibly a mix of a Jinn and a Half-giant. Aside from Aslan, The White Witch was one of the other ancient powers in Narnia, living for about 1,000 years before she died in the battle for Narnia at the hands of Aslan. Whereas Aslan is equated to God from Catholicism, The White Witch is connected to Adam's first wife, Lilith. One of the most notable moments of The White Witch is unfortunately not in the films, but rather in The Magician's Nephew , when she literally stumbles into England briefly, cutting a lamp post from its base and bringing it back with her into Narnia, thus creating the iconic landmark of the lamp post in Narnia's forests.

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Prince Caspian's casting, let alone the entire thematic casting of the Telmarines in Prince Caspian was an inspired and appropriate choice for a people who had landed and conquered Narnia with an iron fist. Ben Barnes adopting a Spanish accent to fit into the conquistador-influenced image of the Telmarines in Disney's adaptation of Prince Caspian was well done and brilliantly played out. Caspian has always been an in-Narnia hero who grew out of his conqueror bloodline to become a noble Prince for Narnia to rally behind.

Bred out of his crown by his aunt's newborn son, Prince Caspian is spirited away into the night to avoid being murdered by his uncle. He finds himself in the company of native Narnian people and creatures who help him find a way to rally the old Kings and Queens of Narnia back to fight against the Telmarines. Although most of his heroics are highly noted in Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader , a childhood favorite moment of fans happens in The Silver Chair . In the end, the long-passed Caspian is brought back for a moment by Aslan to help Eustace and Jill fight the bullies at their school. Drawing his sword, side-by-side with them, and Aslan, they charge the onslaught of bullies armed with cricket bats and their cowardly spectators egging them on. This scene was beautifully realized in the 1990 BBC series that adapted The Silver Chair . Who wouldn't want a fully-armed Prince Caspian on their side when facing a horde of school bullies?

The God of Narnia, and quite literally hinted to be a parallel for a God on Earth, the mystique behind this magnificent Lion perplexes and excites his allies, and strikes the ultimate fear into his enemies. Featured in all seven of the books and a presence wherever he appears, Aslan remains one of the more incredible creatures in the world of Narnia. Voiced by the rumbling growls of Liam Neeson, Disney's Aslan was impressively animated with CGI as far as early 2000's animation goes and the gravity of his presence and voice carried wonderfully.

Although Aslan is at the top of the food chain in Narnia, he is mainly a character who comes and goes when he is in great need, so even though his presence in the books is stalwart throughout, his volume of actions and development is far, and little in-between. Nevertheless, it does not make him any less of a compelling character. This messianic figure of fantasy is an iconic example of benevolence and mystique within fantasy literature.

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Being the middle child on the younger end of the Pevensie quartet isn't the easiest place to be, and it builds a lot of insecurity and the need to overcompensate when it comes to Edmund. Although he eventually comes into his own, Edmund is one of the lighter antagonists at the beginning of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe , and where Lucy found good people when she entered Narnia, Edmund finds the worst of them, The White Witch.

Eventually, Edmund would become known as King Edmund "The Just" and undergoes the most character development throughout his story in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe . His years ruling as a King of Narnia bolstered his desire to be heroic in Britain and tried to sneak his way into enlisting even though he was very much underage. Luckily for Edmund, he would have another chance to return to Narnia with Lucy and their cousin Eustace in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader .

Lucy has always been the fan favorite as the true believer and discoverer of the portal to Narnia through the wardrobe in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe . Her curious naivety opens the world of possibilities and introduces readers and audiences to the good people in Narnia. The greatest gift Lucy has is her ability to see the good in people, especially when they don't see it in themselves, and inspires them to do better in the wake of their errors. She quickly forgives Edmund for his wrongdoings and remains friends with Mr. Tumnus even after he attempts to capture her for The White Witch.

This forgiving and kind character is played sweetly by Georgie Henley, and her casting felt quite appropriate and consistent with the previous rendition of Lucy in 1988's BBC renditions of Narnia adapted as a television series. Although Aslan doesn't seem to play favorites with anyone, it's quite clear that he prefers to show himself to Lucy the most throughout the series. Because she is the youngest, Lucy is featured in five of the seven books.

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With a gentle hand but wise counsel, Susan is Peter's counterpart in helping govern order and harmony among the Pevensie siblings. Although her initial disbelief in Lucy paints her as a follower of Peter and Edmund rather than a sisterly ally, she quickly backtracks and supports Lucy moving forward. Although it seemed like an unwise venture, Susan and Lucy both accompany Aslan to his horrible death at The Stone Table, which eventually ends up being a saving grace in the Battle for Narnia in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe as they led the reinforcements to the front.

Anna Popplewell's subtlety in her performance is gently delivered and conveys a gradual and natural growth through the films as she matures. Unfortunately, Susan ends up being unable to return like her older brother Peter after the events of Prince Caspian and both grow up to be jaded by their inability to return.

Most alliterated characters in superhero and fantasy media seem to take the spotlight, even if they're not in as important in the grander scheme of the story. Peter Pevensie, played by William Moseley built a very believable older brother trying to be brave for his siblings depending on him not only in Narnia but during WWII in Britain. So it's pretty obvious as to why Peter takes centerstage for most of the Disney renditions when it comes to being donned in thick and regal armor and brandishing his sword .

Constantly trying to wrangle the chaos and bullying between the siblings, Peter is not beyond apologizing when he is proven wrong. He listens to his siblings and tries to give them the benefit of the doubt if he questions their ideas or motives, which makes him a decently balanced leader. Although Narnia is run as a Tetrarchy (Between four monarchs) it's clear that Peter is one of the most mediating individuals between the Pevensie children.

The Chronicles of Narnia

Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion.

Created by C.S. Lewis

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First Episode Air Date July 9, 1967

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The Dawn Treader is a book about its characters being brave or hearty and thinking their way out of situations. Caspian is the key to this. The movie shoves this idea aside, creating less room for ...
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Apr 9, 2011. Comparing and Contrasting the Book and Movie Versions of "The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader". Of the three Chronicles of Narnia movies produced based on the popular series written by English author C. S. Lewis, the first installment, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is the closest to its original book version.
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In the film, Rhince is a Narrowhaven citizen who joins the voyage to find his wife. In the book, Rhince is a high member of the Dawn Treader crew. The Dark Island takes the form of a green mist, becoming a sort of sentient threat seeking to "corrupt all goodness" and "steal the light" from the world, rather than the embodiment of fear in Narnia.
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Differences Between The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Movie and the Book. *SPOILERS INCLUDED* Combining Events: The movie takes a few liberties on what happens on certain islands. What are separate islands in the book are combined in the movie. This is most likely done to cut down on screen time and create more exciting scenes.
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader was written by CS Lewis in 1952. It was released as the third book of The Chronicles of Narnia, but now is regarded as the fifth because of chronological events of the series. Edmund and Lucy Pevensie return to Narnia with their obnoxious, spoiled cousin, Eustace Scrubb.
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In the movie, the voyage to the world's edge and Aslan's country remains — but without the solar and eastern imagery. The Dawn Treader no longer treads the dawn; in the entire film, I believe, there's not one shot of the ship sailing toward the dawn or with the sun setting at its stern. For much of the film the sun tends to be off the ...
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a portal fantasy novel for children written by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1952. It was the third published of seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956). Macmillan US published an American edition within the calendar year, with substantial revisions which were retained in the United States until 1994.
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The Voyage of The Dawn Treader is an exceptionally well made movie that really captures the spirit of it' s story. The visual work and acting is the best of the 3 Narnia films. The change of order of events doesn't bother me at all. They hit all the important places and the plot and spirit of the story is captured well.
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Box office. $415.6 million [3] The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a 2010 high fantasy adventure film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay by Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, and Michael Petroni, based on the 1952 novel The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third published and fifth chronological novel in the ...
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THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER is in every respect a four star movie, in terms of entertainment and production values. Whereas the book is episodic, the movie has a focused goal and a classic story arc. The characters are well developed, the dialogue is brisk, the 3D and special effects are good, and the ending is heart-rending.
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Even so, PRINCE CASPIAN AND THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER is rich in adventure and high moral content. Acting performances and direction are superb. In terms of literary value, the video is also faithful to the original novel. Overall, PRINCE CASPIAN AND THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER is a generous portion of superior family entertainment. -
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a 2010 epic fantasy film based on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third published novel in The Chronicles of Narnia series. This movie marks the first Narnia film not to be distributed by Disney (both The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian were under the Disney banner). Instead, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader was distributed by 20th ...
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C.S. Lewis. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a classic children's fantasy novel, and Book Three (by publication order) in The Chronicles of Narnia series by English writer C.S. Lewis, published in 1951. When Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, the youngest of the Pevensie siblings, along with their unlikeable cousin Eustace Scrubb, are magically drawn ...
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Spiritual Elements. C.S. Lewis always meant for Dawn Treader to reflect a Christian's walk in this fallen world of ours, and the temptations faced by the film's protagonists seem to reflect the Seven Deadly Sins outlined by Pope Gregory in 590—extravagance, gluttony, greed, discouragement, wrath, envy and pride.. While all of the characters have some work to do, it's Eustace who gains ...
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Rated: 6/10 • Apr 20, 2020. Visiting their annoying cousin, Eustace, Lucy (Georgie Henley) and Edmund Pevensie (Skandar Keynes) come across a painting of a majestic ship called the Dawn Treader ...
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Written by Anastasia Melnyk. " The Voyage of the Dawn Treader " is a novel by Clive Staples Lewis in the genre of fantasy and the third book of the series "The Chronicles of Narnia". It is a wonderful novel, which is about magic, eternal struggle of good and evil and of course about little and curious children, who always astonish the ...
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Those familiar with the book will notice one or two reasonable additions to the story that give the Dawn Treader's voyage a sharper sense of purpose. Without the changes, Lewis' episodic, anti ...
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: Directed by Michael Apted. With Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, Ben Barnes, Will Poulter. Lucy and Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace where they meet up with Prince Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal ship The Dawn Treader. Along the way they encounter dragons, dwarves, merfolk, and a band of lost ...
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Just saw the movie today! It was awesome. Being in the Oz can be such a blessing at times. Theme-wise, the movie kept true to the novel. Events and plot-wise, some scenes were altered: 2 events from different islands occurred in the same location, Ramandu wasn't there (although in the book, he was only a minor character anyway) and I think as most of you people may know, the addition of the ...
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The next day, the Dawn Treader puts ashore at yet another island. This one is uninhabited for real. Edmund, Lucy, and Caspian descend into a cave, where they find a pool of water with a golden statue at the bottom. Edmund tries to probe it with a broken-off branch--and the branch turns to gold in his hand.
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Most of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader takes inspiration from a much older period of history, however: the Age of Exploration. This period, beginning in the 15th century, is when European countries began to explore and colonize the rest of the world, traveling on long ocean voyages. One of the most consistent criticisms made against Lewis is ...
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1988) Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989) The Silver Chair (1990) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005 ...
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a portal fantasy novel for children written by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1952. It was the third published of seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956). Macmillan US published an American edition within the calendar year, with substantial revisions which were retained in the United States until 1994.
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Release Date: December 10, 2010. Genre: Action, Adventure, Family. Upon returning to Narnia to join Prince Caspian for a voyage on the majestic royal vessel known as "The Dawn Treader," Lucy, Edmund and their cousin Eustace encounter merfolk, dragons, dwarves and a wandering band of lost warriors. As the edge of the world draws near, their ...
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Then in 2005, Disney took on the series in three films, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, bolstering the series with bombastic CGI ...
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