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J.D. Heyman, People: VERY GOOD (cg) "...an engaging cast led by the dewy-eyed Henley, talking mouse Reepicheep, a melancholy dragon and regal Aslan himself (voiced by Liam Neeson)... a voyage worth taking." (Read the full review...) 132 words, 12/09/10 Richard Corliss, Time: WEAK "...not objectionable, just perfunctory... a decorous succession of adventure clichés with a cast of performers who should seek treatment for charisma deficiency." (Read the full review...) 1,031 words, 12/10/10 Jake Coyle, Associated Press: MODERATE (cg) "...can't help but feel like an assemblage of characters and scenes, not a flowing film.... It's the best-looking of the 'Narnia' films, but real emotion -- and even simple motivation -- is still lacking..." (Read the full review...) 829 words, 12/09/10 Thelma Adams, Us Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...enchanting... Though the 3-D effects sometimes feel like overkill, the adventure is as stirring as the previous movies (watch for the menacing serpent!). Plus, the sequel works as a stand-alone film." (Read the full review...) 55 words, 12/09/10 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: MODERATE (cg) "...little in this production feels either grand and substantial or, on the other hand, light and fun. There's a businesslike, barrel-ahead determination to the proceedings, as if the players (and, in the bigger picture, the producers) were ticking off items on an agenda..." (Read the full review...) 545 words, 12/10/10 Claudia Puig, USA Today: MODERATE (cg) "It's serviceable, but certainly not much fun.... lacks narrative flow. Events seem arbitrary, characters incidental. Action scenes are slapped together..." (Read the full review...) 481 words, 12/10/10 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a rip-snorting adventure fantasy for families, especially the younger members who are not insistent on continuity." (Read the full review...) 882 words, 12/09/10 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: MODERATE (cg) "A dull, meandering storyline and visuals all-but destroyed by a second-rate 3-D conversion make this movie inferior to its predecessors... essential simplicity and lack of ambition make [it] an unremarkable and somewhat boring trip." (Read the full review...) 1,156 words, 12/07/10
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: WEAK "...you might find yourself hoping for a nor'easter to come and blow this latest and perhaps last installment in the screen version of C.S. Lewis's series, far, far away." (Read the full review...) 732 words, 12/10/10 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a decent family adventure, perfectly suited to a cold Saturday morning -- and likely to be forgotten by Sunday." (Read the full review...) 339 words, 12/10/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "...the best thing about the present voyage -- a rat and a brat.... Reepicheep is back with Simon Pegg giving excellent voice to the swashbuckling rodent... a spirited performance by young Poulter..." (Read the full review...) 819 words, 12/10/10 Kyle Smith, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...eye-popping and entertaining... offers a merry seafaring jaunt together with plenty of adventures led by magically empowered kids." (Read the full review...) 559 words, 12/10/10 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "...strikes an artful balance between allegorical religious concerns and escapist ones." (Read the full review...) 695 words, 12/10/10 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: MODERATE (cg) "...lazy and lackluster..." (Read the full review...) 277 words, 12/10/10 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a rip-snorting adventure fantasy for families, especially the younger members who are not insistent on continuity." (Read the full review...) 882 words, 12/09/10 Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: FAIR "...at just under two hours, 'Dawn Treader' often feels hasty and overextended -- the relationships don't quite flourish, with the travails of a CGI dragon upstaging the human element." (Read the full review...) 696 words, 12/08/10 Bruce DeMara, Toronto Star: MODERATE (cg) "...there isn't a whole lot in this film that is likely to appeal to adults in the audience other than the message it conveys without much subtlety to children: be good, avoid temptation, believe in imagination and yada-yada." (Read the full review...) 481 words, 12/10/10 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE (cg) "...a flat, dull movie shot in 3-D just looks flatter and duller." (Read the full review...) 642 words, 12/10/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...drops all pretence of entertainment and turns into Walden Media's creepiest proselytization yet." (Read the full review...) 385 words, 12/09/10
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "It's great to be back in Narnia." (Read the full review...) 721 words, 12/10/10 Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "[Director Michael] Apted deftly handles the elements of Christian allegory; it's those infernal digital effects that prove to be beyond his capacity." (Read the full review...) 416 words, 12/10/10 Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...the smallest and most eccentric movie of the three, introducing peculiar new creatures (monopodal hopping dwarves) and a malevolent green fog that might have oozed out of 'Lost.' " (Read the full review...) 572 words, 12/10/10 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: VERY GOOD (cg) "There are fresh threats to the kingdom, islands to be visited, slave traders to be fended off and a quest to be completed.... so satisfying that revival or fond filmed farewell, the 'Dawn Treader' makes port after a voyage well worth taking." (Read the full review...) 521 words, 12/10/10 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a throwback to colorful, wholesome adventures like 'The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad' and 'Swiss Family Robinson,' with rollicking adolescent derring-do, scary (not terrifying) monsters and adorable animal sidekicks." (Read the full review...) 282 words, 12/10/10 Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Fans of the books will enjoy spending a couple of hours inside Lewis' imagination.... the best thing about the film is neither the top-notch CGI nor the shallow moral lessons but the performance of Will Poulter..." (Read the full review...) 312 words, 12/10/10 Nancy Churnin, Dallas Morning News: EXCELLENT (cg) "...should please 'Narnia' fans..." (Read the full review...) 445 words, 12/10/10 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "We're dealing with kids for whom everything comes too easily for us to care. When lost or scared or in need of protection, they need only turn heavenward. Aslan is an amazement for them. But He's hell on excitement." (Read the full review...) 756 words, 12/10/10 Julie E. Washington, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...regains the sense of wonder that made the first movie so enjoyable.... Special effects give us some truly amazing scenes.... [but] unless you're a 3-D fanatic, don't spend the extra money." (Read the full review...) 466 words, 12/10/10 Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: MODERATE (cg) "...uninspired... looks like a cheesy, theme-park exhibit.... The best, and freshest, thing is the relationship between returning mouse warrior Reepicheep (charmingly voiced by Simon Pegg) and Eustace..." (Read the full review...) 353 words, 12/10/10 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: WEAK (cg) "...an utter shipwreck, a would-be adventure with meager rations of magic and a listless crew.... There's no sense of peril to characters we care about, the CGI effects are a yawn and veteran director Michael Apted doesn't find a place in this pedestrian tale for any memorable moral lessons." (Read the full review...) 430 words, 12/10/10 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: GOOD (cg) "It is time to close the book on the 'Narnia' franchise... ends on a perfectly appropriate note, recapturing a childish sense of wonder and an earnest approach to Lewis' religious allegory." (Read the full review...) 611 words, 12/09/10 Tom Long, Detroit News: MODERATE (cg) "...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." (Read the full review...) 321 words, 12/10/10 Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: MODERATE (cg) "...why does the film, especially in its first hour, feel so slow and banal? Probably for the same reason its predecessors felt like slogs: Most of its characters are supremely bland... What saves 'Dawn Treader' are the heroic Reepicheep... and Eustace..." (Read the full review...) 500 words, 12/10/10
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: FAIR "...at just under two hours, 'Dawn Treader' often feels hasty and overextended -- the relationships don't quite flourish, with the travails of a CGI dragon upstaging the human element." (Read the full review...) 696 words, 12/08/10 Katey Rich, Cinema Blend: MODERATE (cg) "...so serious and faux-mythic that it never allows the audience inside.... its plodding pace and sense of perfunctory magic rather than real wit lays bare all the reasons the franchise has never really taken off even in the previous films." (Read the full review...) 663 words, 12/09/10 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: MODERATE (cg) "...the film is rote and humorless and muddied by perfunctory 3D.... It's kind of like looking for the Horcruxes in 'The Deathly Hallows,' but not as much fun." (Read the full review...) 151 words, 12/09/10 Tasha Robinson, AV Club: FAIR (cg) "...bounces from island to island and event to event with a sense of humor, but no sense of flow or drama except during the fight sequences.... feels mighty soulless." (Read the full review...) 372 words, 12/09/10 Simon Abrams, Slant: WEAK (cg) "There's no real tension to the film... unreal characters make perfunctory risks, which don't feel like risks at all..." (Read the full review...) 670 words, 12/07/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...drops all pretence of entertainment and turns into Walden Media's creepiest proselytization yet." (Read the full review...) 385 words, 12/09/10 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: FAIR (cg) "Little kids will surely find this collection of fantastical geegaws enthralling -- look, a talking mouse! hey, a minotaur! -- but as a grownup fan of the magical and the mysterious, I was almost totally bored..." (Read the full review...) 712 words, 12/10/10
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: WEAK "...you might find yourself hoping for a nor'easter to come and blow this latest and perhaps last installment in the screen version of C.S. Lewis's series, far, far away." (Read the full review...) 732 words, 12/10/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "...the best thing about the present voyage -- a rat and a brat.... Reepicheep is back with Simon Pegg giving excellent voice to the swashbuckling rodent... a spirited performance by young Poulter..." (Read the full review...) 819 words, 12/10/10 John Swansburg, Slate: WEAK "...attempts to overcome the story's episodic nature are clumsy, its effects only intermittently special, and its dufflepuds not nearly funny enough." (Read the full review...) 844 words, 12/09/10 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: MODERATE "Not as bad as 'The Last Airbender,' although delivered in much the same post-production 3-D Murk-O-Vision. Not as good as 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1'.... mediocre..." (Read the full review...) 622 words, 12/08/10
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: WEAK "...routine and risk-averse in every respect... in its gaudy vfx, substandard 3D and homily-like sense of drama, feels straitjacketed by its mandate to deliver a Christian-targeted, mainstream-friendly entertainment..." (Read the full review...) 1,036 words, 12/07/10 Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: WEAK "...a full-on belly flop... Perfunctory perfectly describes every aspect... from the by-the-numbers script and lackluster direction to uniformly uninspired performances.... everything that happens seems entirely arbitrary; characters come and go and make decisions for no evident reasons..." (Read the full review...) 816 words, 12/03/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "...the best thing about the present voyage -- a rat and a brat.... Reepicheep is back with Simon Pegg giving excellent voice to the swashbuckling rodent... a spirited performance by young Poulter..." (Read the full review...) 819 words, 12/10/10 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: WEAK "...you might find yourself hoping for a nor'easter to come and blow this latest and perhaps last installment in the screen version of C.S. Lewis's series, far, far away." (Read the full review...) 732 words, 12/10/10
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