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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)

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Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 143
Fresh: 71 | Rotten: 72

Its leisurely, businesslike pace won't win the franchise many new fans, but Voyage of the Dawn Treader restores some of the Narnia franchise's lost luster with strong performances and impressive special effects.

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Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 13

Its leisurely, businesslike pace won't win the franchise many new fans, but Voyage of the Dawn Treader restores some of the Narnia franchise's lost luster with strong performances and impressive special effects.

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Genre: Action & Adventure, Kids & Family, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Synopsis: Lucy and Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace where they meet up with Prince Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal ship The Dawn Treader. Along the way they encounter dragons, dwarvf camps, and a band of lost... More

Rated: PG See Full Rating

Running Time: 1 hr. 53 min.

In Theaters: Dec 10, 2010 Wide

On DVD: Apr 8, 2011

Box Office:$104.4M

Distributor:20th Century Fox

Directed By: Michael Apted

Written By: C.S. Lewis, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely

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Not quite a must-see, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is nonetheless a sturdy outing with many of the charms that have become franchise trademarks.

December 17, 2010 Full Review Source: Denver Post | Comment
Denver Post
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Could be an optical illusion, but it seems that a flat, dull movie shot in 3-D just looks flatter and duller.

December 10, 2010 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment (1)
Globe and Mail
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The visual splendor is still there, in moderate amounts.

December 10, 2010 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment (1)
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is still very much a "Narnia" movie. In other words, it's filled with fantastical creatures, bloodless battles, quasi-mystical undercurrents and an unfortunate helping of hooey.

December 10, 2010 Full Review Source: Detroit News | Comments (2)
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Many families will find this installment the most entertaining, action-filled, and humorous of the three.

April 17, 2011 Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | Comment
DVDTown.com

The shortest of the Narnia movies (and also the worst)...

April 9, 2011 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment (1)
Reel Film Reviews

The narrative sometimes gets becalmed and the tale's Christian allegory is blatantly unsubtle, but Apted and cinematographer Dante Spinotti do manage to conjure the odd moment of visual wonder out of the quest.

March 18, 2011 Full Review Source: Movie Talk | Comment

[M]eek fantasy fare that's overbudgeted, underwritten, and while it may have happened this way in the novel, that doesn't mean it is any good, nor that we should give it a free pass...

February 10, 2011 Full Review Source: Obsessed With Film | Comment

Quaintly enjoyable enough in its own way. Until it's slowly sunk by a certain divine Lion, bringing along all his earnestness and preciousness. It's a ride, all dressed up as a child-hero fantasy quest, that's meant to lead us to one red-light moral.

January 27, 2011 Full Review Source: Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada) | Comment
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

Their joyous return to Narnia washes away as their comfort in the face of the fantastic sets in. Nothing appears new to them, and likewise, nothing enchants us.

January 7, 2011 Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine) | Comment
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

The standard perils of sequels are visible ... but a great deal of care and thought has let the filmmakers avoid most of the pitfalls and clamber out of the rest relatively unscathed.

December 30, 2010 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | Comment
ComingSoon.net

Adventure and fun for the entire family with an easy to follow story.

December 21, 2010 Full Review Source: ReviewExpress.com | Comment
ReviewExpress.com

With no real sense of danger or urgency, the "adventure" of the Dawn Treader remains as by-the-books and generic as ever.

December 20, 2010 Full Review Source: Scene-Stealers.com | Comment
Scene-Stealers.com

Forget the Titanic: The Dawn Treader is the real sinking ship.

December 17, 2010 Full Review Source: Creative Loafing | Comments (2)
Creative Loafing

Director Michael Apted has injected a greater sense of adventure in this installment, though the references to having faith do little to prevent much of the dialogue from sounding very much like a Sunday sermon

December 17, 2010 Full Review Source: Killer Movie Reviews | Comment
Killer Movie Reviews

At least the sea serpent -- part cobra, part eel -- is fierce, and welcome...

December 17, 2010 Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | Comment
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

full review at Movies for the Masses

December 17, 2010 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | Comment
Movies for the Masses

Comfortably the worst of the three movies... perversely anti-fun in a way that no fantasy epic has any right to be.

December 16, 2010 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Comments (2)
Antagony & Ecstasy

You can't help wishing the film well, though doubting whether it will get anywhere near Harry Potter's lot at the box office.

December 15, 2010 Full Review Source: This is London | Comment
This is London

It seems to suffer from a general malaise, lacking a proper villain and having only a couple of interesting characters.

December 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | Comments (5)
Laramie Movie Scope

I'm hard-pressed to work up the energy to actively loathe it. Let's say I passively dislike it and let it go at that.

December 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Simple and satisfying; the best of the three

December 14, 2010 Full Review Source: jackiekcooper.com | Comments (4)

What a lovely finale and final (I think) installment of the fantasy/Christian allegory created by C. S. Lewis.

December 14, 2010 Full Review Source: KWQC-TV (Iowa) | Comments (7)
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April 15, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | Comment
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April 15, 2011 Full Review Source: dvdmg.com | Comment
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Audience Reviews

Kalel J April 9, 2011

While a meandering whisper of a plot running the course hurts it, it is thanks to the charm from performances and a maturity in tone that this - the third in the Narnia franchise - becomes a welcome addition to the magic of this world. It is through its young actors that this film avoids falling, their interplay is

deano
deano July 25, 2007

Wonderful family adventure that has elements for everyone to enjoy, such as clean humour, excitement, dangers and also psychological elements. The plot is straightforward and easy to understand. It is also filled with excitement, especially the battle with the dragon is quite breathtaking.
The relationship between

Luke B March 16, 2011

Not terrible, in fact, it probably does the best with the material it had to work with. The other two films were on a more epic scale. Bringing it down a notch isn't a terrible thing. But the collecting items plot can't be ignored. Edmond and Lucy have no idea why they are back in Narnia, and neither do the Narnians.

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mrpopcorn August 26, 2008

"You have returned for a reason. Your adventure begins now."

Lucy and Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace where they meet up with Prince Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal ship The Dawn Treader. Along the way they encounter dragons, dwarves, merfolk, and

REVIEW

The third Narnia movie under the auspices of 20th Century Fox rather than Disney, adapts what may be the most popular of the Narnia novels, and the final one to involve any of the Pevensie children. And "adapt" is the right word, because the film takes some liberties with the book. The main one of these is a sensible one - a threat is introduced to provide a reason for the children to be there and to provide a more coherent link than the simple ongoing quest to find the missing Lords as per the book.

And underlying both book and film is the story of the redemption of Eustace Scrubb. Will Poulter as Eustace is a triumph - the boy is odious, but very, very human. Skandar Keynes is, unfortunately still underwhelming - I'm afraid I find his overstressed sibilants terribly distracting. Georgie Henley does better as Lucy although, again, I am possibly out of step with others in not finding her quite as wonderful as everyone else. Ben Barnes seems a little more at ease as King Caspian. Simon Pegg is a more than adequate voice replacement for Eddie Izzard as Reepicheep.

The film looks great, is a nice mixture of action, humour, and spectacle, and is well paced. I have read opinions that the Christian allegory is maybe a little more overt than previously - as an agnostic, the allegory is not exclusively Christian, it seems to me. The 3D has its moments but is far from essential. Finally, it was wonderful to see the Pauline Baynes illustrations from the novel used as the background for the closing credits.

    1. Coriakin: To defeat the darkness out there, you must defeat the darkness inside yourself.
    - submitted by rob g (44 days ago)
    1. Edmund Pevensie: So, if there are no wars to fight, then why are we here?
    - submitted by rob g (44 days ago)
    1. Coriakin: To defeat the darkness out there, you must defeat the darkness inside yourself.
    - submitted by rob g (45 days ago)
    1. Aslan: You have returned for a reason. Your adventure begins now.
    - submitted by rob g (45 days ago)

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Foreign Titles

  • Die Chroniken von Narnia - Die Reise auf der Morgenr�te (DE)
  • The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader (UK)
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