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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

2010, Kids & family/Fantasy, 1h 52m

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Its leisurely, businesslike pace won't win the franchise many new fans, but Voyage of the Dawn Treader restores some of the Narnia franchise's lost luster with strong performances and impressive special effects. Read critic reviews

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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. Suddenly, the painting comes to life and draws the youths into Narnia, where they meet their old friend, King Caspian (Ben Barnes). Caspian is on a quest to find the seven lost Lords of Telmar, whose swords will save Narnia from an evil green mist that enslaves men's minds and bodies.

Rating: PG (Some Frightening Images|Sequences of Fantasy Action)

Genre: Kids & family, Fantasy, Adventure

Original Language: English

Director: Michael Apted

Producer: Mark Johnson , Andrew Adamson , Philip Steuer

Writer: Christopher Markus , Stephen McFeely , Michael Petroni

Release Date (Theaters): Dec 10, 2010  wide

Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2013

Box Office (Gross USA): $104.4M

Runtime: 1h 52m

Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Production Co: Dune, Mark Johnson

Sound Mix: Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS

Cast & Crew

Georgie Henley

Lucy Pevensie

Skandar Keynes

Edmund Pevensie

King Caspian

Will Poulter

Tilda Swinton

The White Witch

Liam Neeson

Aslan Voice

Reepicheep Voice

Terry Norris

Bruce Spence

Bille Brown

Laura Brent

Anna Popplewell

Susan Pevensie

William Moseley

Peter Pevensie

Shane Rangi

Arthur Angel

Arabella Morton

Michael Apted

Christopher Markus

Screenwriter

Stephen McFeely

Michael Petroni

Mark Johnson

Andrew Adamson

Philip Steuer

Douglas Gresham

Executive Producer

Perry Moore

David Arnold

Original Music

Dante Spinotti

Cinematographer

Barry Ray Robison

Production Design

Rick Shaine

Film Editing

Isis Mussenden

Costume Design

Christine King

Rebecca Cohen

Set Decoration

Karen Murphy

Art Director

Mark Robins

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Critic Reviews for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Audience reviews for the chronicles of narnia: the voyage of the dawn treader.

I suppose that it's the best one of these adaptations as there's some good rearranging of certain plot points, that being said like the previous two adaptations the movie over-complicates the source material (which for "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" was fairly episodic and not really focused on some great evil) into a jumbled mess of half realized ideas.

The world is indeed not enough for director Michael Apted, James Bond fans, so he's heading off to Narnia, either because Andrew Adamson had more important things to do in 2010... like "Shrek Forever After", or because they had to kick Adamson to the curb due to people's drawing enough comparisons between this series and the "Lord of the Rings" series with a Kiwi filmmaker being taken out of account. Quite frankly, I think the excitement level of this film is enough to distinguish it from high fantasy "epics" like "The Lord of the Rings", for even the title's underwhelming, because, really, just how extensive of a voyage can this be if it's being led by someone who only treads around dawn? Dawn usually lasts around half an hour or so, so it figures that this "Chronicles of Narnia" installment actually runs under two hours and still be way too long. Speaking of meandering, I think you get the point about my lamely joking about someone who actually voyages during the dawn, but hey, at least give me some credit for trying to come up with a play on the title that isn't "The Voyage of the Yawn Treader" once again, because someone here has to be original, and it's sure not this film. Seriously though, there is at least something different about this film, and that is its being picked up by 20th Century Fox after it got dropped by Disney, as well as its replacing Eddie Izzard with Simon Pegg as Reepicheep. In all sorts of ways, this film is kicking powerful mice out of this franchise, though it's hard to tell the difference, because when it comes to the Reepicheep voice change, all they did was trade out one English comedian for another, and when it comes to the studio change, 20th Century Fox still Disneyfied this subject matter. Jokes aside, this film is decent, but it's a little more watered down than its predecessors, and for a number of reasons. There's something much less consequential about this film, even more so than "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", but that's hardly an excuse for this film to be so much fluffier than its predecessors, at least to the point of tonal unevenness, for although this is still not the overtly Disneyfied film that we were fearing an installment in this series would be when Disney was calling the shots, what tension there is often finds itself broken by overly fluffy comic relief, while a more realized sense of fluff is sometimes broken by an almost unsubtly considerable attention to the weight of this adventure opus' conflict, however limited it may be. The film is even more uneven with its tone than "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", and such inconsistency goes matched by an unevenness in pacing, because even though this film, at just under two hours, is the shortest of the "Chronicles of Narnia" films by a relatively sizable margin, storytelling is still bloated with fluffy filler and excess material to shake coherency in focus. I suppose the film doesn't put as much attention as its predecessors into its plot's layers, as it just doesn't have time to meander that much, but this installment is somehow arguably about as aimless as either of its predecessors, for thinness to substance is emphasized by the attempts at bloating that only result in pacing inconsistencies, and the attempts at breaking fluff with tension that only result in tonal inconsistencies. If nothing else, the film is at least consistent in familiarity, just like its formulaic predecessors, hitting trope, after trope, after trope, until it becomes hardly anything we haven't seen before out of this series or out an interpretation of subject matter of this type, unless, of course, you take into account that this story is a little more light than usual. The conflict is very much there, but there's something almost fillery about the story concept of this installment in the "Chronicles of Narnia" saga, whose momentum doesn't feel as important, and whose fluff feels too prominent, until what you're faced with is a fluff flick that sometimes tries, but is ultimately nothing all that special. The film does a lot of things very well, but it also makes many mistakes, and it can't afford to challenge your investment that much when it's having to deal with some serious natural shortcomings, whose emphasis wears down on the final product, until it collapses as the most underwhelming of the "Narnia" films, if not forgettable. Still, no matter how many mistakes and limitations wear this opus down, it's an ultimately worthy watch, at least for entertainment's sake, reinforced by sharp style. Due to its being more about adventure than the depth of "Prince Caspian", this film returns to the fine tastes in dynamic locations of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", enhanced by fine production designs that prove to be immersive, with a handsomeness that is complimented by Dante Spinotti's cinematography. A good bit of style goes a long way in bringing this world to life, and even flavor up action, which is more fluffy than intense, yet it still thrillingly well-staged, with sharp technical value and fun visuals to add to the color of the style. Now, it's debatable if this film is technically sharper, or at least more technically innovative than its almost importantly well-produced predecessors, but this pricy project offers nothing less than fine technical proficiency and style, which isn't to say that direction only has sharp style to offer. Although Andrew Adamson made his share mistakes, and although there's too much thinness to this subject matter to present all that much potential for directorial storytelling, I'm not sure I'm as crazy about Michael Apted as a director for this series in comparison with the now strictly co-producing Adamson, as Apted does not work as well with the performers, nor does he try as hard to place attention into depth, yet the heart of this effort is kept pumping by some effective moments - particularly the surprisingly very moving ending - in which a sense of depth is celebrated as punctuation into a consistently lively sense of pacing, anchored by colorful plays on style and David Arnold's score work. Really, while there are effective occasions to break up much too much underwhelmingness that was not this prominent in the predecessors, if nothing else, this film is genuinely fun, not just in execution, but in concept. I wish there was more meat to this fluffy piece of fat around the edges of a blockbuster series, but this was always to be a much less juicy installment in the "Narnia" saga, with an interpretation that is about as formulaic and uneven as this series' storytelling has ever been, and yet, there is still some worthy thematic depth and sense of consequence here to flavor up a lively adventure narrative, done some justice by a script by Michel Petroni and "Narnia" film series regulars Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely that offers some colorful characterization and sharp humor, and by the aforementioned inspired, if overambitious direction. Regardless of what the ambitious filmmakers clearly want you to do, you shouldn't expect much out of this relatively less consequential installment out of an epic high fantasy saga, but if you're willing to get past the loss of meat, there's enough fun here for the whole family to embrace, even if there's only so much beyond that. When dawn has been broken, unevenness in tone and pacing, as well as much too much in the way of familiarity, behind a story concept that is pumped with natural shortcomings leave the final product to tumble into underwhelmingness, but enough wonderment is captured through lovely art direction, cinematography and score work, fun action set pieces, colorful writing and delightfully well-paced and sometimes effective direction behind an adequately intriguing and dynamic story concept to make "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" a thoroughly entertaining, if somewhat disappointing third outing in the "Narnia" saga. 2.5/5 - Fair

A bit less confusing plot-wise, more visually impressive, expertly acted (namely Will Poulter's performance as Eustace), and faster paced than it's predecessors.

I was rather pleasantly surprised in this 3rd installment of the Chronicles of Narnia, feeling that, although a fairy tale and targeted at 10 year olds, there held in this one enough charm and a certain degree of cynicism to overcome the weaknesses so apparent in the 2nd film. This film, while following the 2nd film's coming of age aspects, foregoes many of the epic scenes of battle with all the cool creatures, and therefore becomes more human. Not to say the film is perfect, for there are some odd plot contrivances (for example, having the incompetent and trouble making Eustace included in all the ship's landing parties) and the type of ham fisted plot messages geared for the aforementioned 10 year old mentality, however, if you just check your brain at the door and watch the story unfold, I believe there is enough here to hold an adult's interest (though casting myself in that role may be suspect... LOL). There are some delightful CGI moments, which make the hideously bad CGI that also fills the film so much more glaring. If you look at the all the scenes when the Dawn Treader arrives at the apparently abandoned city, you'll see bad mapping, terribly drawn, static backdrops, and some seriously bad staging once the city's denizens populate the town. The acting throughout was respectable given the archetypes that had to be represented (and really, the mouse out acted all the real characters), and I really enjoyed the bratty performance of Eustace, who added a wonderful degree of adult levity with all this cynicism. Unfortunately there is a plot device that comes at the beginning of the grand fight between goodness and evil, that you know you've seen before... yes, I'm talking about evil taking your worst thought and making it real - shades of Ghostbusters! It would have been hilarious to see the Sta-Puff Marshmallow Man threatening the ship instead of the sea monster that was conjured out of Edmund's psyche (though I kind of enjoyed seeing a cameo appearance by the ice queen who, after Edmund complained that she was already dead, proclaimed "I'll never be truly dead as long as I exist in your mind"... pretty heady stuff when you think about it). I have to point out however that if you're thinking Ghostbusters rip-off, you may have it backwards - for C.S. Lewis penned The Dawn Treader decades before Ghostbusters. In the end, this is miles away from Tolkien, but then again, the books are as well (closer to Potter actually, both in target audience and tone); and certainly there have been far worse films based on beloved children's books (The Gold Compass comes to mind).

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Three new images of narnia: the voyage of the dawn treader.

Check out three new images from 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,' which sets sail this Christmas season.

This Christmas season, the Chronicles of Narnia series is back with its third film, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader .

In anticipation of the rapidly approaching release, Fox has released three new images from the film.

Coming our way from the Voyage of the Dawn Treader Official UK Facebook Page , the images give us a look at Lucy, Eustace, Prince Caspian, and the mighty little mouse Reepicheep.

Check out the images below, followed by a bit more information about Voyage of the Dawn Treader for the Narnia newbies out there. You can click on each image for a slightly larger version.

While I was unsure about the film from the first trailer , I'm getting increasingly excited with each  new trailer . It looks like Treader will be an enjoyable and action-packed family film, which is important to have during the holiday season.

For those unfamiliar with the Narnia series, Voyage of the Dawn Treader revolves around the two youngest Pevensie children, Edmund and Lucy, and their cousin Eustace Scrubb. The three are transported back into Narnia via a magical painting (no wardrobes this time) and taken aboard the Dawn Treader, captained by Prince Caspian. After establishing peace in Narnia, Caspian has set out to find the lost Lords of Narnia. The story follows the ship and its crew during this quest, leading them into dangerous islands and a wealth of adventures (Apologies if the above sentences made me sound like I work for Fox's publicity department).

It's been a while since I've read it, but I recall The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader being one of my favorite books in the entire Narnia series. I think it strikes the right balance of a fun, fantasy story while also delivering C.S. Lewis' trademark Christian themes and messages. Any other Narnia fans out there agree?

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader hits theaters in the U.S. on December 10th, 2010.

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