The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Fox-Walden | Release Date: December 10, 2010

6.1	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 230 Ratings

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AnthonphaxDec 16, 2010

The **** of the year, the Narnia's series it's only getting worse, this movie don't have dynamic, it's only talk, talk, talk... In other words, boring. If you don't watch yet, don't go watch, it's a waste of time and money....

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heyitsmegrif4Jul 21, 2012

Dazzling visuals and some solid performances don't help this campy, not-so-fantastical,boring, fantasy. It has bloated action and dialogue, along with choppy editing and pace. The worst installment yet. I give this movie 28%.

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gunnyartDec 13, 2010

I really wanted this to be good. Perhaps my expectations were too high but, my first reaction when the end credits began to roll was... "Wouldn't it be great if someone would make a high budget film loosely based on the Dawn Treader?" We'veI really wanted this to be good. Perhaps my expectations were too high but, my first reaction when the end credits began to roll was... "Wouldn't it be great if someone would make a high budget film loosely based on the Dawn Treader?" We've read the books many times over. Therein lies the problem. I realize the need to adapt a story for the big screen but they should be ashamed of themselves. Whatever happened to the art of story telling? It struck me as a dumbed down action flick for kids.… Expand

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ShiiraDec 16, 2010

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. David Byrne, back in his "More Songs about Buildings and Food" days with the Talking Heads, once remarked that "heaven [was] a place where nothing ever happen[ed]," hardly the sort of place for a swashbuckling rat like Reepicheep(voiced by Eddie Izzard), who seeks action and is absolutely fearless in any given situation. Assuming that he gets there. Prince Caspian(Ben Barnes) won't go; he politely declines Aslan's invitation to his kingdom, choosing instead to continue his reign over Narnia for the time being, while the wall of tidal water, fluid but frozen in time and space, beckons anybody who wishes to cross over. The rat, on the other hand, presumed to be much older than his human compatriot in arms, accepts the lion's officer, with the understanding that he just punched himself a one-way ticket. After Reepicheep bids everybody a fond farewell, the loyal Narnian subject lays down his earthly possessions on the sand, and scampers toward the shoreline, where the rat disappears into the blue, similar to the way the sixties activist/writer(played by James Earl Jones) in Phil Alden Robinson's "Field of Dreams" vanishes amid the green Iowa corn, with the difference being that Terrence Mann's trip was a round one. Prior to the reclusive author's departure, the 1989 film starring Kevin Costner(based on the novel "Shoeless Joe" by W.P. Kinsella) suggests the un-Christian notion of heaven being a place on earth, when the farmer and his father discuss dreams and geography(suggestive of baseball as being a religion to itself), just before they toss around the baseball(practicing their religion), whereas "The Chronicles of Narnia" books by C.S. Lewis were loaded with Christian teachings that survived the film adaptations, leading the moviegoer to interpret the rat's destination as being heaven, since the mighty lion(voiced by Liam Neeson) is a blatant Christ figure. Aslan alone can rise up from the dead, the only one who can leave Narnia and return as he pleases, because the lion is all-powerful; he's God, after all, while Caspian can't claim to be nothing more than a mere mortal, but the omnipotent one tempts the prince into willfully abdicating his throne and the remainder of his natural life. For his own sake, the royal stands his ground, explaining to Aslan that his father would have wanted him to remain among the Narnians, the denizens he was entrusted with by decree to protect. The moviegoer, however, suspects that the prince also wants to live long enough to "catch"(wink wink nudge nudge) the falling star from the "Island of the Star" on their way back home. Reepicheep, conversely, by his own admission, has seen it all and is all out of fight(and perhaps, all out of love, too, save for one last hug with Lucy), so "dying"(for what else could it be?) becomes easy for the rat, whose derring-do, upon closer examination, was a symptom of his death wish. As the wind and waves thrashes the Dawn Treader this way and that way during a fierce storm, en route to Dark Island, the rat can be glimpsed flitting around up high on the main yard near the top mast, where one false move could have sent the tiny soldier plummeting to the deck, or worse, the turbulent, churning waters they're navigating. Even the horseplay, a practice sword fight, that he participates in with his sparring partner Eustace(Will Poulter), after further review, seems less innocent as it first appeared. This boy, Lucy and Edmund Pevensie's cousin, was swinging his blade at the rat pretty hard. The rat could have easily been the victim of beginner's luck. When Reepicheep jumps into the ocean after the lad, by then, transformed into a dragon, it's with that same dauntless recklessness. Finally, at the beach, the rat reveals his secret desire, as he steps into liquid and, presumably, into the realm of heaven, but doesn't self-murder occasion a trip to the other place? "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" is more bunk about realms and food for ecclesiastical thought. The film sorely misses Susan.… Expand

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canderson15Aug 11, 2011

This was by far the worst movie out of all 3 of them!!! I cant even begin to express how disgusted I am in this one!! I understand the movies cant be exactly the same the story, but come on.... the 3rd one was sooooo way off!!!! I have readThis was by far the worst movie out of all 3 of them!!! I cant even begin to express how disgusted I am in this one!! I understand the movies cant be exactly the same the story, but come on.... the 3rd one was sooooo way off!!!! I have read and reread the ENTIRE book at least 5 times. Every story was awesome, just brilliantly amazing!!! They could have at least kept to the storyline. I feel bad for people who liked the movie, that just means they didnt read the book and if they did, well then SHAME on them for thinking the movie was good!!! If you have read the book and have not seen the movie I BEG you to please DO NOT watch it!! If you are a true Narnian fan as much as I am, you will regret WASTING your money on such a horrible, awful, useless movie that will leave you saying OMG thats not how it happened and/or OMG why did they change the story line was perfect they should have left it the way it was!!! Even in the second one if you are true Narnian you know half the stuff was not even remotely close to how it happened in the book. so you know I am NOT LYING when I say the 3rd was awful just awful, but hey watch it for yourself and then come back and tell me I am wrong, but I know you true fans wont!!!… Expand

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RockyVJan 22, 2011

Trough the film the spectator loses the interest in the story because all the situations are solved easily and the Christian message is evident. The 3-D effects aren't good and maybe it is better to see it in 2-D.

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RastamarlinFerFeb 22, 2011

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Well, itÂ´s a very good saga on BOOKS!! In the first movie is good; in the second it was boring and without the things that tell the book (like Harry Potter or Twilight) but the third movie has all previous things in one movie
For me, donÂ´t like =I
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avatar16Dec 21, 2011

J'ai trouvÃ© que ce troisiÃ¨me opus Ã©tait un vÃ©ritable gÃ¢chis! Surtout du fait que la saga venait d'avoir un gain de qualitÃ© avec Le Prince Caspian. Mais cetteJ'ai trouvÃ© que ce troisiÃ¨me opus Ã©tait un vÃ©ritable gÃ¢chis! Surtout du fait que la saga venait d'avoir un gain de qualitÃ© avec Le Prince Caspian. Mais cette OdysÃ©e du Passeur d'Aurore fait retomber le tout bien bas, et ce Ã cause de nombreux dÃ©fauts : mal jouÃ©, effets numÃ©riques inÃ©gaux, un manque flagrant de spectaculaire et de magie, mauvaises photographie et mise en scÃ¨ne... Bref, j'ai vraiment eu l'impression de regarder un banal tÃ©lÃ©film plutÃ´t qu'autre chose, qui atteint Ã©galement un niveau de niaiserie jamais vu dans un tel produit grand public (cela est dÃ» aux dialogues et Ã la musique). Je ne retiendrai que la lÃ©gÃ¨re dose de comique apportÃ©e par le personnage d'Eustache ainsi que la sÃ©quence divertissante du serpent de mer. A part cela, je mis suis royalement ennuyÃ©, n'ayant pas vu un opus Ã la hauteur du prÃ©cÃ©dent... pour ne pas dire de la saga...… Expand

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JmsbppJun 20, 2013

Las cronicas de Narnia siempre sorprende en cada pelicula cada vez menos, claro que en la primera demostro ser buenisima, la segunda paso y era aceptable pero ya la tercera fue un desastre total.

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infinitycoreFeb 19, 2018

"Everything is wrong here", to quote Kryten from "Red Dwarf". Seriously, this movie is about as accurate as a blind sniper trying to hit a fly from 1000 yards with a blunderbuss. It's as if the writer skimmed the book and thought, "ok, the"Everything is wrong here", to quote Kryten from "Red Dwarf". Seriously, this movie is about as accurate as a blind sniper trying to hit a fly from 1000 yards with a blunderbuss. It's as if the writer skimmed the book and thought, "ok, the story needs this, this, this, and that" and then crossed them off on a checklist just to fit them into the story. Keep in mind that this is the second longest story (surpassed only by The Horse and His Boy), and yet it is the shortest movie of the three that have come out. This is my favorite book series, by the way, and I thought the movies couldn't get any worse than Prince Caspian, but Holy Crap this proved me wrong. At this point I have to wonder if anyone who made this POS had ever even read the series at all. Shame on you in particular, Doug Gresham. Your stepdad is rolling in his grave. If you want a better adaptaion of the story, check out the Focus on the Family Radio Theater version.… Expand

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