Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Andrew Adamson, 2008)

I was pleasantly surprised by this latest installment of the Narnia series. I definitely helped having see the first (or having read the book) as you pretty much dive right into the action in this serial edition. Definitely more action and adventure to be found here. The four children seem rightly out of place in Narnia several hundreds of years later. The Gospel message is once again very clear in this movie. I think the premise of this film rides well with 2 Peter 3 which says: "remember the words spoken of old...that in these final days mockers will come with their mockery, people who go the way of their own desires, who will say: Where is the promise of his coming?" Just as King Miraz and his followers have forgotten the Narnians and even the Narnians have given up on the promise that the kings and queens of old would return. The 2 Peter passage continues: "For since our fathers were laid to rest, all things remain as they have been since the original creation. But they are unaware, as they wish to be, that the skies existed from of old, and the earth formed from water and standing in the water, but the word of God." Likewise at Cair Paravel they have forgotten the orginal creatures of Narnia and life as it used to be. Furthermore if we follow this passage we read: "Do no forget this one thing, dear friends, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day." So it was with the Pevensie children and with Aslan. And as it is with God so is it with Aslan for "he is patient with you, because he does no want any to be destroyed, but all to come to repentence."
C.S. Lewis' nicely painted allegory translates well to the screen for this adventurous romp that is friendly for the eyes of children of all ages.