Publicist Ernie Malik is quoted as calling it a "swashbuckling tale." The story is based upon marauding pirates. A young woman becomes rather infatuated with a young man of pirate descent. Has Disney made a new Pirates of the Caribbean movie? Well, not exactly.

In the latest Chronicles of Narnia movie, Prince Caspian, the Pevensies are sent back beyond "the world's end" to help deliver Narnia from pirates—well, descendants of pirates, anyway.

It has been a year since the Pevensie children have returned from Narnia through the Wardrobe and found that time in this world had not clicked a moment. The kings and queens of Narnia had to go back to their old lives as ordinary school children. While C. S. Lewis doesn't seem to reflect on what this must have meant for the children, the movie's creators did. And many of the "changes" between the book and the film are the result of this reflection.

Douglas Gresham, Lewis's step-son and co-producer of the Chronicles of Narnia films, has called Prince Caspian "A Poorer Story, but a Better Movie." When I first saw that, I bristled a little. I have also been reading through Two Roads through Narnia, a book published by Hollywood Jesus Books in 2005, around the time of the release of the first movie, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. (The book is edited by Greg Wright from articles which appeared on HollywoodJesus.com.) In the chapter on Prince Caspian, George Rosok's literary analysis of the book is titled "Short of the Standard." But in the past six months I have re-read Prince Caspian three times, and it has become one of my favorite of the Chronicles.

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