I was glad that this movie was still showing today. It's the 4th week and the theatre was full. I read the book several years ago and had forgotten the details. All I could remember was the Pevensies helped Prince Caspian, the exiled true heir, to get his throne back.
The beginning was scary. When I saw the baby birth scene, I thought they played the wrong movie, something about Crusades; but of course there was no movie about Crusades made recently. A son has been born for the evil King Miraz, so he orders that the true heir, Prince Caspian, his nephew, to be murdered. The prince flees to the woods and meets Narnians, who will help him to get his throne back, led by the Pevensies. It is only a year since the Pevensies left Narnia, but in Narnia hundreds of years have passed and now the country is occupied by the Telmarines and the Narnians are forced to live in the woods.
In the first of the series, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, it is Edmund who becomes the black sheep; in this sequel, it's Peter who has to learn. In London, Peter fights with some young boys because they force him to apologize for something he didn't do. Having been the high king, it isn't easy for Peter to be humble. When they go to Narnia, Peter's decision to attack the enemies in their den proves to be fatal; and it was a sad moment in the movie, when Peter sees his troop is being massacred, and he can't help them at all, even has to flee the scene.
The enemies' armours remind me of Spanish soldiers, of Don Quixote. I think in the new Indiana Jones movie, the Francisco de Orellana corpse, has a similar helmet. Must see both movies again when the DVDs are available. Lastri loved Reepicheep the best and she laughed every time this character appeared on screen. It was funny how they tie the cat up.
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