The plot of Dawn Treader is arguably the most Tolkien-esque of the Narnia books, albeit with a Homeric slant: the two younger Pevensie siblings, Lucy and Edmund, re-enter Narnia through the portal of an animated painting, and find themselves helping Caspian on an island-hopping quest to rid the land of a curse emanating from the "Dark Isle". You can't help but be struck once again by the common elements the Narnia books have with Lord of the Rings produced in the same dark, drab postwar years, attempting to reinforce the moral sense that Lewis and Tolkien presumably saw had been both drained and somehow redeemed by the war and its outcome. So it's heartening to report that Dawn Treader arrives with confidence and bravado intact – the entirely expected stew of cod-medieval adolescent derring-do, attention-grabbing special effects, and sledgehammer moral lessons with nakedly religious overtones. Hopes had been high that Narnia could be another Potter, but instead it looked like it had turned into His Dark Materials: the magic of the print works struggled to emerge on to the screen.
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