Ah, the Summer 2008 Blockbuster Season continues…

The first trailer for The Mummy 3 is up now. (Anyone else growing bored with the “10,000 arrows flying at once” scene?)

Jeremy Zehr has restored my faith in movie reviews with his take on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Also, don’t miss the Speed Racer Review “Freak Bite” on his Freak Accident podcast.

As for me? So far this year, I have yet to see anything beyond Horton Hears a Who.

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• Prince Caspian reaches out to the White Witch?
• Susan has to break the enchantment?
• Waitaminit… Susan’s not back at the bridge with Aslan?
• Um… eagles? Are the kids coming to rescue Gandalf from the top of Orthanc? (Oh, sorry—wrong Inkling.)

Katie and I just finished reading Prince Caspian a few weeks ago, so the book’s still fresh in my mind. I hope they don’t screw around with it too much… but it irks me that, while “book Caspian” was definitely repulsed by the idea of working with Jadis:

“So that is you plan, Nikabrik! Black sorcery and the calling up of an accursed ghost. And I see who your companions are—a Hag and a Wer-Wolf!”

…in the film it seems Caspian X’s nursemaid and Doctor Cornelius gave him a more tolerant education on Old Narnia. Why do filmmakers insist on taking successful books and messing with them, to the point of changing main characters’ motivations?

I guess I should just be glad Aslan wasn’t changed into a 2007 Camaro.

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