Voyage of the Dawn Treader has always been my favourite of the Narnia books. And as such, I am very familiar with it.
Now I don't remember any side plot in the book regarding a green mist and seven swords. I am very disappointed that the screenwriter contrived this garbage and made it a MAJOR plot element.
In the book, the main plot element is the voyage itself, the goal, the end of the world and a view of Aslan's Country. But in this version, we have an added Green Mist Threat and vanishing Narnians. This was NOT in the book and it is basically a travesty to add in a "big bad evil" where there was none. And the quest for non-existing magical swords, took away from the actual plot elements that CS Lewis had written.
The original book stands by itself without such nonsense.
Now my favourite part of the book is Eustace Clarence Scrubb's transformation into a dragon, and they got a lot of that episode wrong as well, in the book, part of Eustace' Misery is that Lord Octavian's Armband is stuck on his arm while a Dragon, it cannot come off and it hurts. This was changed in this film. Also, Alsan ripped the dragon directly from his skin, not the sand.
Most of the elements of the Dawn Treader's voyage are here, in this film, albeit changed greatly to accommodate the irrelevant green mist nonplot.
The Green Mist addition, would give this film an instant Zero rating, but they did get a lot of the imagery correct. Hence the "5" I gave this version. Also, at the end titles, we get to see Pauline Bayne's fantastic original art which was made for the hardbound copies of the book. I myself used to look at those pictures when I was a child. The use of the pictures in the end credits, makes this the best end titles of any Narnia film so far.
Finally, the green mist non-lewis addition destroyed the most ominous aspects aspect of the final island visited by the Dawn Treader before reaching Ramandu's Island: The Isle where DREAMS come true. Dreams, not DAYdreams. The effectiveness of CS Lewis's book was totally obliterated by changing the nature of this island to "The Island where Green Mist pours out of".
This change totally ruined the experience of this film for me, also, when entering Narnia in this episode, they are sucked into the frame of the painting, and I was so looking forward to see how they did that, but alas, they did not do it the way CS Lewis wrote it.
This is the problem with these Narnia Moovies, CS Lewis created the script with ALL necessary plot elements, nothing need be added or changed, how dare these people re-write Lewis? I forgave Peter Jackson because Lord of the Rings could not have been filmed without the things he left out or added, and he never fundamentally changed any plot elements. But THIS last of the films based on Chronicles or Narnia, has been ruined incredibly by people thinking they can rewrite the great CS Lewis.
Now I don't remember any side plot in the book regarding a green mist and seven swords. I am very disappointed that the screenwriter contrived this garbage and made it a MAJOR plot element.
In the book, the main plot element is the voyage itself, the goal, the end of the world and a view of Aslan's Country. But in this version, we have an added Green Mist Threat and vanishing Narnians. This was NOT in the book and it is basically a travesty to add in a "big bad evil" where there was none. And the quest for non-existing magical swords, took away from the actual plot elements that CS Lewis had written.
The original book stands by itself without such nonsense.
Now my favourite part of the book is Eustace Clarence Scrubb's transformation into a dragon, and they got a lot of that episode wrong as well, in the book, part of Eustace' Misery is that Lord Octavian's Armband is stuck on his arm while a Dragon, it cannot come off and it hurts. This was changed in this film. Also, Alsan ripped the dragon directly from his skin, not the sand.
Most of the elements of the Dawn Treader's voyage are here, in this film, albeit changed greatly to accommodate the irrelevant green mist nonplot.
The Green Mist addition, would give this film an instant Zero rating, but they did get a lot of the imagery correct. Hence the "5" I gave this version. Also, at the end titles, we get to see Pauline Bayne's fantastic original art which was made for the hardbound copies of the book. I myself used to look at those pictures when I was a child. The use of the pictures in the end credits, makes this the best end titles of any Narnia film so far.
Finally, the green mist non-lewis addition destroyed the most ominous aspects aspect of the final island visited by the Dawn Treader before reaching Ramandu's Island: The Isle where DREAMS come true. Dreams, not DAYdreams. The effectiveness of CS Lewis's book was totally obliterated by changing the nature of this island to "The Island where Green Mist pours out of".
This change totally ruined the experience of this film for me, also, when entering Narnia in this episode, they are sucked into the frame of the painting, and I was so looking forward to see how they did that, but alas, they did not do it the way CS Lewis wrote it.
This is the problem with these Narnia Moovies, CS Lewis created the script with ALL necessary plot elements, nothing need be added or changed, how dare these people re-write Lewis? I forgave Peter Jackson because Lord of the Rings could not have been filmed without the things he left out or added, and he never fundamentally changed any plot elements. But THIS last of the films based on Chronicles or Narnia, has been ruined incredibly by people thinking they can rewrite the great CS Lewis.