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

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 a band of lost warriors before reaching the edge of the world.

Director:

Michael Apted

Writers:

Christopher Markus (screenplay), Stephen McFeely (screenplay),

Stars:

Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, Ben Barnes

Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 14 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Georgie Henley	...	Lucy Pevensie
Skandar Keynes	...	Edmund Pevensie
Ben Barnes	...	Caspian
Will Poulter	...	Eustace Clarence Scrubb
Gary Sweet	...	Drinian
Terry Norris	...	Lord Bern
Bruce Spence	...	Lord Rhoop
Bille Brown	...	Coriakin
Laura Brent	...	Liliandil
Colin Moody	...	Auctioneer
Tilda Swinton	...	The White Witch
Anna Popplewell	...	Susan Pevensie
William Moseley	...	Peter Pevensie
Shane Rangi	...	Tavros
Arthur Angel	...	Rhince

Storyline

Lucy and Edmund Pevensie are stranded in Cambridge, living in the house of their obnoxious cousin Eustace, while the grown-ups Susan and Peter are living in the USA with their parents. When a painting of a ship sailing on the sea of Narnia overflows water in their room, Lucy, Edmund and Eustace are transported to the ocean of Narnia and rescued by King Caspian and the crew of the ship The Dawn Treader. Caspian explains that Narnia has been in peace for three years but before he took his throne back, his uncle tried to kill the seven lords of Telmar, who were the closest and most loyal friends of his father. They fled to The Lone Island and no one has ever heard anything about them. Now Caspian is seeking out the lords of Telmar with his Captain Drinian, the rat Reepicheep and his loyal men. Sooner they discover that an evil form of green mist is threatening Narnia and the siblings and their cousin join Caspian in a quest to retrieve the seven swords of the seven lords of Telmar to ...

---

Plot Keywords:

dragon | rat | king | quest | warrior | 

---

Taglines:

Return to magic. Return to hope. Return to Narnia.

---

Genres:

Adventure | Family | Fantasy

---

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for some frightening images and sequences of fantasy action

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

10 December 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Chronicles of Narnia 3

Filming Locations:

Cleveland, Queensland, Australia

Box Office

Budget:

$155,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£2,460,118 (UK) (10 December 2010)

Gross:

$104,383,624 (USA) (8 April 2011)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Fox 2000 Pictures, Walden Media, Dune Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

113 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby DTS Dolby (Dolby Surround 7.1)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

After The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian didn't fare too well at the box office, the Walt Disney Company decided for budgetary and logistical reasons not to co-produce and co-finance this or any of the following chapters of the Narnia series.

---

Goofs

As the Dragon is pulling the Dawn Treader with his tail, his shadow does not match up with his flapping wings.

---

Quotes

[first lines]
Intake Officer: Are you sure you're eighteen?
Edmund Pevensie: Why? Do I look older?

---

Connections

Version of Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989)

---

Soundtracks

"LANGHAM PLACE (ELEGIE) [LONDON AGAIN (SUITE)]"
Written by Eric Coates
Performed by New Symphony Orchestra, Eric Coates Conductor
Courtesy of Decca Music Group Limited
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

User Reviews

I thought it couldn't be done...

Narnia has been the site of mini-vacations I've taken for nearly 40 years. I never say "I'm reading The Chronicles"; I say, "I'm taking a mini-vacation in Narnia." I do the same thing at least once a year in Middle Earth, and, every few years, in Thomas Covenant's The Land. I have read all seven of these books to my daughter. I know these books intimately.

I told my daughter that I couldn't imagine a movie of The Dawn Treader. The book is not the unified novel the other six are. It is several stories rather loosely connected by the sea voyage. How do you make a movie out of that? By telling the story better than the original author, that's how! The movie begins with the younger brother Edmund trying to overcome his sense of inferiority to his brother, Narnia's High King Peter, by enlisting in the Army. It goes to the younger sister Lucy longingly looking at her face in the mirror, wishing she were as beautiful as her older sister Susan, well setting us up for what is to come. No such foreshadowing exists in the novel.

At the Lone Islands, the mist that kidnaps unsold slaves is not from the novel at all, nor from anything I have read in C. S. Lewis. But it forms the framework for a unified story.

From their first encounter, Reepicheep generously undertakes the correction and rehabilitation of Eustace, which is an unexpected side-effect of his Narnian adventures in the novel. In the novel, Reepicheep cares only for his honor, and only later shows kindness to Eustace.

The Lone Islands adventures, the Island of the Dufflpuds, Ramandu's Island, the Dark Island are rearranged, condensed, reinterpreted, changed, transformed into a fine single story. The screenwriters have outdone C. S. Lewis as a storyteller in this case.

I love C. S. Lewis. Sometimes, jokingly, I refer to him as St. Clive. But I don't think it's blasphemous to say somebody has found a way to tell his story better than he did. I am impressed, and I recommend this movie most highly.