The makers of Prince Caspian – the second installment in Walden Media's adaptation of C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series – faced a daunting challenge in bringing this one to the screen. Whereas the first and third books in the series (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, respectively) lend themselves effortlessly to filmization, the same cannot be said of Caspian, which Lewis structured with comparatively greater narrative complexity, a richer philosophical element and less visual splendor than the preceding or successive installments. (It cannot be a coincidence that after the blockbuster success of Wardrobe, the producers initially skipped book two and announced the production of the visually rich and ripe Treader).

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Matrix mavens the Wachowski Brothers brought an old-school cartoon classic to the big screen this past weekend with their live action adaptation of the 1960's Japanese animated series Speed Racer. Ticket sales were disappointing to say the least, making the movie a total box office bomb, but was this crash-and-burn the result of a bad movie, or just bad marketing? AllMovie's own Cammila Albertson cuts to the chase with her full review of Speed Racer.

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