On St Caspians Day

The latest in that seven-movie franchise of money grabbing is Harry Potter and... I mean: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. It's big and glossy and... has a lot of battling.

I'm not sure how much is in the book, or if it's broken up more, but there seems to be a lot of battling present. Most of the second half is one group fighting another in some location or another (the first half of the movie is spent getting the two main plots to meet). I have the books to read, so that'll be interest to see. (Certainly I'm not sure of the Christian imagery being tried for here, but I couldn't read much religion into this one...)

Of course the main point of the Narnia series is that swathes of time passes in Narnia, and so aside from the main four leads, there aren't any characters in common (well, except for the lion, of course, and another one I have no idea is supposed to be there or not from the book, if so would make the uber-arc a lot more interesting). The new characters are mainly affecting Spanish or Italian accents, and for some reason, except Caspian, all of them have beards... why, I'm not sure, but it is amusing to watch the big "army march" when there is row upon row of only bearded men walking past. (Continuing to speak of battles, interesting that in most of the battles there are few women taking part, aside from Susan.)

Big and pretty to look at, it's a long movie so be sure to be ready for it, and for extended fight scenes...

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