![]() In a dark castle in a dark forest, men with heavy armor and beard-shadowed faces quarrel and conspire. Lewis was, along with everything else, a scholar of medieval and Renaissance English literature. When the exiled child kings and queens are thrown back into Narnia (thanks to a sudden outbreak of special effects in a London Tube station), they seem no longer to be in a children's fantasy story, but rather in some kind of Jacobean tragedy, a reminder that C.S. The grand hall where Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy were made monarchs of the realm has fallen into ruin, and the friendly woodland creatures with their homey British accents and computer-animated fur seem to have vanished from the scene. ![]() But in Narnia itself, to which the four plucky Pevensies return in "Prince Caspian," the second movie in the series, centuries have passed, and everything has changed. In wartime England, where the Pevensie children live when they're not consorting with talking lions and battling witches, a year or so has gone by. Here in the unenchanted world of ordinary moviegoing, it has been about two and a half years since "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," the first installment in Walt Disney and Walden Media's mighty "Chronicles of Narnia" franchise. Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Directed by Andrew Adamson ![]()
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