Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 155
Fresh: 76 | Rotten: 79
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.
Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 14
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.
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Upon returning to Narnia to join Prince Caspian for a voyage on the majestic royal vessel known as The Dawn Treader, Lucy, Edmund, and their cousin Eustace encounter merfolk, dragons, dwarves, and a wandering band of lost warriors. As the edge of the world draws near, their remarkable adventure at sea sails toward an exciting, yet uncertain, conclusion. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
PG, 1 hr. 55 min.
Action & Adventure, Kids & Family, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Dec 10, 2010 Wide
Apr 8, 2011
$104.4M
20th Century Fox
All Critics (156) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (77) | Rotten (79) | DVD (8)
Not quite a must-see, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is nonetheless a sturdy outing with many of the charms that have become franchise trademarks.
Could be an optical illusion, but it seems that a flat, dull movie shot in 3-D just looks flatter and duller.
The visual splendor is still there, in moderate amounts.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is still very much a "Narnia" movie. In other words, it's filled with fantastical creatures, bloodless battles, quasi-mystical undercurrents and an unfortunate helping of hooey.
Despite some rejiggering of the book's plot, it's a film that should please Narnia fans and, if it does well, may lead to the return of Eustace in the next installment, The Silver Chair. Here's hoping.
The 3-D effects are standard, the children and the prince are a bit bland, and Michael Apted's direction veers into listlessness, but there is, at times, a pleasing elegance to the production, too. It doesn't assault you.
This is designed to keep the children happy over the Christmas period and fans of CS Lewis will enjoy the fact that it's a pretty faithful adaptation. But those wanting something different from the usual CGI extravaganza would do well to look elsewher
Lacking a strong central narrative force, there is little sense of what is at stake.
the film finishes with a suitable roar.
The only thing more emblematic of this franchise would have been had the ship sank at the end.
... A perfectly bland blockbuster; as flat as a still ocean and pioneering, in the sense that its synthetic vistas and passionless players, somehow plasticise the imagination.
The series' most entertaining movie so far ... [But] either the screenwriters don't understand Lewis's story, or they're actively subverting ideas he illustrated beautifully.
A little uneven, highlighting an unlikable character, but also incredibly enjoyable when the film is focused on the magnificently imaginative Narnian visuals.
The lead kids here have their charms, and while the film is functional it lacks distinction and a passionate sense of drive.
Many families will find this installment the most entertaining, action-filled, and humorous of the three.
The shortest of the Narnia movies (and also the worst)...
This is the shortest (just under two hours long) and the fastest-moving of the franchise so far.
The narrative sometimes gets becalmed and the tale's Christian allegory is blatantly unsubtle, but Apted and cinematographer Dante Spinotti do manage to conjure the odd moment of visual wonder out of the quest.
It's not a film that has anything like the thematic weight of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but what it does offer is a fun and exciting (but not too scary) time at the movies for kids.
[M]eek fantasy fare that's overbudgeted, underwritten, and while it may have happened this way in the novel, that doesn't mean it is any good, nor that we should give it a free pass...
Michael Apted keeps the story moving and finds more humour in the adventure than was offered in the darker Caspian installment.
Quaintly enjoyable enough in its own way. Until it's slowly sunk by a certain divine Lion, bringing along all his earnestness and preciousness. It's a ride, all dressed up as a child-hero fantasy quest, that's meant to lead us to one red-light moral.
I'd read in my Entertainment Weekly magazine about how boring they (or that editor) thought it was, but I rather enjoyed it start to finish, myself.
December 23, 2010Super Reviewer
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
November 24, 2011
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