CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER

Like its predecessors, the latest Narnia movie, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, is being greeted with mixed reviews by critics. “20th Century Fox has taken up the franchise [from Disney] with largely dreary results,” writes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times. She goes on to remark, “Though there are times when the movie turns into a congested mess, as in a climactic battle that washes the screen in gray, there are moments when you also see a quieter, less industrial production.” Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times, writes that the plot is “not particularly coherent” but “boils down to one damn thing after another.” Nevertheless, he adds, “this is a rip-snorting adventure fantasy for families.” That’s not how Rick Groen sees it in the Toronto Globe and Mail. “Could be an optical illusion,” he remarks, “but it seems that a flat, dull movie shot in 3D just looks flatter and duller.” On the other hand, Kyle Smith in the New York Post calls this chapter of the Chronicles, “eye-popping and entertaining” and praises director Michael Apted for bringing back “a sense of the old-fashioned fun of the low-tech 1960s myths-and-monsters matinees.” As for the 3D, many of the critics suggest that it’s simply unnecessary. Amy Biancolli in the San Francisco Chronicle ads that “if it isn’t the greatest 3-D, at least it looks better than Clash of the Titans.”

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