Dawn Treader: Unworthy of the name

Back in October I saw the trailers for the Voyage of the Dawn Treader movie and expressed dismay at the direction the film seemed to be going. When I saw the film earlier this year, I discovered it was worse than I feared.

In that response to the trailers, I summarized the recent history of Inklings-novel dramatizations: great films, but far inferior to the books. The filmmakers clearly loved and generally understood the books, but didn’t “get” them deeply enough to do them justice. For true fans of the books, the Lord of the Rings and earlier Narnia movies were at worst disappointments. Dawn Treader, by contrast, is a slap in the face—a deliberate insult.