Sailing to the End of the World

I was super excited this weekend, because Friday was the release of the latest Narnia movie on DVD ~ The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I bought it right away, since I've been anticipating seeing it for so long. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader was my favourite book in the Narnia series. It's so chock full of things for the imagination ~ from mermaids and dragons, to dufflepuds and a human star. Thankfully, the movie didn't let me down; just like the last two, it was great!

The main storyline is this:

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third book in the series (fifth in chronological order) of The Chronicles of Narnia, returns Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, as well as their priggish cousin, Eustace Scrubb, to Narnia. There they accompany King Caspian on a voyage to find the seven lords who were banished when Caspian's evil uncle Miraz stole the throne. This perilous journey brings them face to face with many wonders and dangers as they sail toward Aslan's Country at the eastern end of the world. 

(Eustace, Edmund, Lucy and King Caspian)

It was great to see the same actors and actresses again ~ I am so glad they have kept the same people through all of the movies so far. Georgie Henley and Skandar Keynes play Lucy and Edmund, Ben Barnes returns as Caspian, Tilda Swinton as the White Witch, and Anna Popplewell and William Moseley make short appearances again as Susan and Peter. They even still had the same actor do the voice of Reepicheep, and of course, the great Liam Neeson as Aslan. The new addition was Will Poulter as Eustace, who did a good job of his role. Eustace is an annoying little twerp in the book, and came across so in the movie just as much. Thankfully by the end he redeems himself and makes you actually like him. If they make another Narnia movie, it will be Eustace who will be the main character, so it's good that he grows on you!


Anyway, overall, it's another great movie in the Narnia series. Like the others, it doesn't disguise the Christian parallels ~ they're so obvious, which is really neat to see. I'm glad they didn't try to take that aspect out of these movies. 


Here's a few more pictures from the film, and the trailer...

Lucy with some dufflepuds

Reading the book of incantations

Eustace the dragon and Reepicheep

Lucy, Caspian and Edmund with Liliandil (the star)

Aslan with Caspian, Lucy, Edmund, Reepicheep and Eustace

 Edmund, Lucy and Eustace leave Narnia