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Prince Caspian
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The second installment in the Narnia franchise, adapted from C.S. Lewis popular young-adult fantasy novels, is slightly darker than THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE (2005), which is not to say that the first film is all sunlight and daffodils. But it does end with the implicit promise that, thanks to the courage and cleverness of the Pevensie siblings, human youngsters who rise to the challenge of righting a world where it's always winter and never Christmas, all wrongs have been righted for the foreseeable future. CASPIAN is predicated on the less comforting notion that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
London, 1941: It’s been a year since Peter (William Moseley), Susan (Anna Popplewell), Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy Pevensie (Georgie Henley) made their way to the fairy tale world of Narnia, where they overthrew a wicked witch and became the much-loved kings and queens of a kingdom populated by fauns, centaurs, talking beavers and all manner of marvelous creatures. In the real world of war-torn England, they’re school children from Finchley, but they cling – some more than others – to the memory of their enchanted lives as warrior royalty,...
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