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    Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Review

    The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is the third film in the CS Lewis series. It’s about Edmund and Lucy, the two younger siblings in the Pevensie family. In England, during WWll, the children are staying with their obnoxious cousin Eustace. While looking at an ocean painting on the wall in their cousin’s bedroom, the children are swept away to Narnia; in the ocean beside the Dawn Treader, which is commanded by Caspian who is now King. The three children, accompanied by King Caspian, have many adventures as they sail to find the source of an evil green mist.

     


    Rating: Five out of five buckets
    Release Date: April 8 , 2011
    MPAA Rating: PG
    Best Age Group: Any age
    Sexual Content: None
    Violent Content: Mild
    Crude or Profane Language: None
    Drugs and Alcohol Content: None

    See a clip of my review here!

    Talking Points:

    It’s interesting because as King Caspian and the three kids are trying to find the source of this evil mist, a magician tells them “to defeat the darkness out there, you must defeat the darkness inside yourself.” So now they each have their own personnel things to conquer.

    • Lucy is jealous of her beautiful sister, and wants to look like her.
    • Edmund, has to accept Caspian as their King.
    • Eustace, has many issues, particularly that he’s an obnoxious pest and a coward.

    The kids in the audience may be able to relate to some of their own insecurities, and how to cope with them.

    The transformation of the cousin was one of my favorite parts. In Narnia, unable to resist a certain temptation, he turns into a dragon. Ironically, this mean boy turns into a nice, brace, noble dragon. By the grace of Aslan (In Narnia Aslan is a lion, who is the Savior), Eustace turns back into a boy. In this transformation scene Eustace states that he couldn’t do it by himself no matter how hard he tried, he needed the help of the Savior. This could be a good parent child discussion after the movie.

    I read, “There are deep spiritual underpinnings in the movie. And it marks Dawn Treader as a voyage of faith and belief.” As the mouse says, “We have nothing, if not belief.”

    Violent Content: Mild

    • There’s a scary serpent that attacks the Dawn Treader as it sails toward a dark island, this may scare younger kids.
    • In the beginning they’re at an island, some of the children were captured by evil guys.

    Profanity: None

    Sexual Content: None

    I interviewed kids ages 5 to 14 after the movie. They all enjoyed it. The five year olds liked the dragon, while the older kids seemed to like the adventurous parts of the movie. Parents liked the spiritual meaning behind the movie.

    Overall this is a wonderful, entertaining movie, with valuable life lessons we can all learn from. Like I said earlier, this is a the type of movie that could spark some great parent-child discussions.

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