The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
With their dour, bookish cousin Eustace (Will Poulter) in tow, the youngest Pevensie offspring -- Lucy (Georgie Henley) and Edmund (Skandar Keynes) -- take an unexpected trip back to Narnia and join noble King Caspian (Ben Barnes) for an epic high-seas adventure. Setting sail aboard the Dawn Treader, the young heroes head for the end of the world, determined to rescue seven once-powerful lords banished by Caspian's evil uncle.
Cast and Information
Directed By: Michael Apted
Written By: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Michael Petroni, C.S. Lewis
Starring: Liam Neeson, Tilda Swinton, Simon Pegg, Bruce Spence, Gary Sweet, Ben Barnes, Will Poulter, Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes
Genres: Family/Kids, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Franchise: The Chronicles of Narnia
Country: USA
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader belongs to 21 collections
1. Based on a Book (collaborative: moderated by iconogassed - 21 stars)
2. #1 at the US Box Office (collaborative: moderated by BeeDub - 10 stars)
3. Based On Novel (collaborative: moderated by tathiel - 7 stars)
4. Disney+ (collaborative: moderated by saudade - 5 stars)
5. Top 3000 movies with the most votes on IMDb (public: fanfic - 5 stars)
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7. 3D (collaborative: moderated by djross - 3 stars)
8. All-Time Worldwide Box Office over $200,000,000 (collaborative: moderated by QuickyAPI - 3 stars)
9. Young Adult novel adaptation (collaborative: moderated by nauru - 3 stars)
10. Top 2000 movies with the most votes on IMDb (public: fanfic - 2 stars)
11. Eligible for Academy Award Best Picture 2010 (collaborative: moderated by Ross - 1 star)
12. Sea Films (collaborative: moderated by DougCollins - 1 star)
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wayofthegun | 65 29th |
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Entertaining enough, but none of the sequels have even come close to capturing the magic of the first entry in the series.
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dwyer | 78 58th |
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There are scenes here that look alarmingly cheaply made, like too many actors are crammed on too small a soundstage for what's supposed to be an exterior shot. Still, the story here is strong, and that overcomes most of the shortcomings in production value. There is one scene of extraordinary sincerity and sensitivity, when Reepicheep quietly extends a kindness to the obnoxious Eustace. I wept like a child, and this scene sold me on the rest of the film.
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KramYessev | 70 56th |
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The series manages to redeem itself after the trifling effort of "Prince Caspian". My thoughts on "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" are pretty much identical to "Lion", the religious overtones are still as subtle as a brick to the face but the world on show here is so engaging and enthralling that you can't help but be charmed and mystified by the whole thing. Liam Neeson still makes for a good Christ-lion.
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| 3 | PluggedIN | 100 98th |
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Dawn Treader found the fun. For two hours, I was engrossed in a land I loved as a child and still love today. I was called into a magical world and I once again felt Aslan tugging at my heart. He wasn't in my backyard, but it was the next best thing. (pluggedin.com)
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BeeDub | 85 63rd |
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About as good as the first two, if a touch more lightweight and forgettable (though that was true of the book, too).
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evrana | 66 38th |
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One thing about the Narnia series is its consistency. Neither good nor bad, it is a good way to spend 2 hours during the weekend when it is in 3D. I think this one was slightly better than its predecessors. I liked the design of the sea monster in particular.
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| 2 | damil | 65 54th |
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I thought it was pretty much on par with the previous entries. The cousin is played by Will Poulter, who I'd seen before in Son of Rambow (2007), and I found him to be the best of the young actors in this film. I was impressed with some of the visual effects and I liked the fantastical creatures involved. The pacing bothered me a little sometimes, but overall, I enjoyed it.
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| 2 | judsonlady | 89 97th |
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Good thing I was forewarned that this movie varied greatly from the book. It allowed me to rate it on its own merit. Still had some of my favorite parts from the book. Awesome story either way with good action, drama, comedy, and moral lessons.
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cagedwisdom | 0 4th |
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The type of film that's so forgettable that you don't really care how you score it so long as it's not in the greens. Then every time you go through and re-score your films later this is the one that jumps up and down dramatically between tiers, bumping uglies with Police Academy: Mission to Moscow one day and School of Rock the next. Just another drearily uninspired and ham-handed 3D "adventure" to help fill the ranks of films you need to rate on Criticker to remember that you've seen.
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Ytadel | 2 14th |
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Cartoonish and dramatically inert. I couldn't give a shit about any of the characters. I was no huge fan of the first two Narnias but this is nevertheless easily the worst yet.
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PeaceAnarchy | 61 13th |
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Surprisingly dull, and unsurprisingly heavy-handed. It has no driving force in its plot, the characters are either underdeveloped, uninteresting or annoying, and even the supposedly exciting battles have little energy. It's not quite bad but it's totally forgettable and uninspired.
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joseywales | 57 29th |
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Some of it LOOKED great, but for the most part I think I can see why Disney dropped this franchise.
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martryn | 64 37th |
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I liked this movie more than I should have. I'm a fan of the Narnia books, and I'm a fan of fantasy, and this is the sort of movie I would have loved as a kid. No, it's not a great film, but it looked, visually, very good, and it made me feel like a kid again. I like that, at least.
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maddog | 62 23rd |
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The movie was all right, not as exciting or impressive as the other two. And I always have a chip on my shoulder about Aslan, who only seems to help if someone believes in him, giving no rhyme or reason to why he lets the bad things happen in the first place. I can handle it as allegory. But at the end of this thing, Aslan pretty much spells out that the children need to find him 'by another name' in the other world. And Reepicheep apparently commits allegorical suicide. Ending ruins it, totally
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TV+Film-Hub | 20 83rd |
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Purists will be very upset because this film chops up and bastardizes the original story more than all the other Disney adaptations. Worst it adds many corny elements to the film, and brings in a new actor who is amazingly even worse than the others! That said: I enjoyed the film. It has impressive panoramic shots/visual effects, and it is in 3D (it doesn't come out of the screen, but it's still something.) And to their credit Georgie Henley and Ben Barnes have really grown into their roles!
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tathiel | 80 67th |
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Will Poulter's performance as Eustace was great!
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misterlizard | 30 33rd |
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Worst of the films so far, but not completely terrible. The book was one moral tale after another and they're all in here in some form, but mangled somewhat. I didn't really take away the same messages from the movie as I did from the book. There's also some pointless additions which turn the book's voyage for the sake of adventure into some half-baked plot about a smoke monster. Overall, not that hot.
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Matthew Parkinson (CineMarter) | 40 31st |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is the worst of the first three Narnia adaptations. It's dull, despite being a half-hour shorter than each of the other two installments, it's shallow, and its overt take on the religious subtext of the books has finally become distracting; you can't willfully ignore it this time around. The film has a few good elements but on the whole isn't worth the time unless you're someone who feels obligated to watch all the films in a series.
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glumpy_99 | 81 63rd |
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Far and away the best of this series takes a page from noughty-era fantasy films (PIRATES, POTTER even LOTR), but crafts its own fun and enjoyable adventure; lighter on its feet than previous entries and helped by the young cast who seem more comfortable and confident in their performances (especially ring-in Poulter, whose Eustace is a scene-stealing riot). Wraps up with a fair degree of poignancy, though the religious undertones become perhaps a little too explicitly pious overtones.
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Corbad | 70 54th |
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"For Adventure!" wasn't good enough, so the filmmakers cried, "For a MacGuffin!" instead, and really that's the worst of the film (alongside the awfully designed dragon): the green mist is a boring device and a crippling blow to the source material. But everything else is the best of the series so far. The direction is energetic, the action rollicking, the comedy (Poulter is superb as Eustace) on point, the scenery and design strong. Honestly, it's better than you remember.
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| Average Percentile 33.44% from 1244 Ratings |  |