Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The box office results do not bode well for a continuation of this fine series: we may never get to see THE SILVER CHAIR. To avert that unwelcome fate, let me do my small part by urging my friends to go see the film.

VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER is based on the beloved childrens’ book of CS Lewis of the same name, and follows the main outline of the story somewhat faithfully. We are not talking about some abomination where the two have nothing in common but the name, such as the flick STARSHIP TROOPERS, which was made for the sole purpose of insulting the fans of the novel. Nonetheless, purists like me will register at least a slight disappointment at the addition of an overarching quest plot not present in the book, and something of a flatness or “saltlessness” which comes from leaving out certain beloved scenes, lines, or themes.

The plot is that Edmund and Lucy return to the world of Narnia along with their frightfully selfish and priggish cousin Eustace Scrubb, a boy who almost deserves the name. They fall through a magic picture into the uncharted seas East of Narnia, to be rescued by Prince Caspian in his fair ship the Dawn Treader, seeking the edge of the world at the uttermost east, beyond which Aslan’s country is said to rest.
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