The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. 2008
We took a trip to the local Vue Cinema last night to catch up on a favourite fairytale of ours. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian 2008. Understanding as we do, a little about how fairy tales work we looked forward to a couple of hours entertainment that followed on from the first film this series; The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
As we pulled up outside the Vue cinema in York, we noticed a coach had parked up nearby and our hearts sank. Was this film going to be full of screaming kids. However, we are nothing if not committed to the work of pryordurkin.com and our readers come first, so we continued inside to take out seats. Only stopping mid way to pick up the extortionately priced treats. Over £6.00 for a drink and a bag of chocolate!. I kid you not.
Anyway, the auditorium was more or less empty. An elderly couple, out on what appeared to be a first date, given the amount of talking and giggling, were sat in the row opposite. Behind us, two couples in their teens and to the other side a few girls sat in a group. I only mention this because it is important to remember as my review moves on.
The film started after about 20 minutes of adverts. It had quite a good pace to it and jumped quickly from war torn London to Narnia in a split second. The storyline picked up from where The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe left off and to be honest, kept us entertained throughout. It must have been good, because Dusty normally looks at his watch when he gets bored, but didn’t do this once.
However, throughout the first half of the film I could hear constant talking and giggling. It was starting to hack me off, because one minute I was almost stroking Aslam (Liam Neeson providing the voice) and the next minute I was back in a grubby in Cinema in York. Despite Dusty’s plea to ’shhhh’ it continued.
In the end, we decided in a grumpy manner (to ensure it was noticed) to move seats away from the elderly ‘dating’ couple to the opposite end of the auditorium. They got the message. I tell you, it is not the young of today who are rude, it is the elderly in our experience.
Back to the film. It finished around 11pm and in that time, Aslam had helped our heroes save the day. There were a few funny innuendos throughout the film. One centred around a horn which in real life would have been a mobile telephone. If you see it, you will know what we mean.
All in all, a good couple of hours (despite the elderly obnoxious behaviour - bet they had Asbos)
Score: 3 Stars.
Directed by Andrew Adamson. Based on the book by CS Lewis. Screenplay by Andrew Adamson, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. Starring: Ben Barnes, Georgie Henley, Skander Keynes, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Sergio Castellitto, Peter Dinklage, Vincent Grass and Warwick Davis.
