Hollywood is not a pious town, but Fox executives are praying for a box-office miracle by Sunday. Fox has been hoping the faith-based community might buttress the usual fantasy-film demographic of kids and idle teens. Lewis, an indifferent believer in his youth, returned staunchly to the Church of England in his thirties the Narnia tales are infused with Christian metaphors (he rejected the word allegory), such as the Jesus-like lion Aslan. The studio's scheme is that profits will come from American evangelicals. Fox assumed distribution, and the budget was cut from $225 million for Caspian to about $150 million for Dawn Treader. The two films earned nearly $1.2 billion at the worldwide box office, but extravagant costs prodded Disney to ditch the franchise. The first two books, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian, became Disney live-action movies in 20. (Video: See TIME's Holiday Movie Preview.) If this movie were a bedtime book, the wee ones would be asleep by page two. Dawn Treader, the name of the ship in the story, should here be rechristened Yawn Treader. The film is not objectionable, just perfunctory a decorous succession of adventure clichés with a cast of performers who should seek treatment for charisma deficiency.
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Lewis' seven-volume fantasy series about some English children who escape from their midcentury rural reality into a parallel universe. You're welcome for that little tip.Īnother way to avoid ocular distress is to skip Dawn Treader, the big-screen adaptation of the third book in C.S. The movies look better, and you avoid eyestrain. A good deal of the time while watching the new Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, you can remove your eye-test specs and see the action with perfect clarity greater clarity, certainly, than if you wore the goggles, since they also severely reduce the brightness of the screen. I mean that some, if not most, scenes in movies like Alice in Wonderland and Clash of the Titans and the forthcoming TRON: Legacy are not shown in 3-D.
I don't mean that they were shot in the old 2-D process and simulated into stereoptic form in post-production. Follow a little secret: most 3-D movies aren't in 3-D.