The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)

  Here the Pevensie children go on their final adventure.

Lucy (Georgie Henley) and Edmund (Skandar Keynes) are forced to stay with relatives while Susan (Anna Popplewell) and Peter (William Moseley) go to America with their parents to see out the end of the war.  Their cousin Eustace (Will Poulter) is also none-too-pleased at the arrangement as he views the Pevensies to be dangerously unbalanced with all their talk of Narnia.  Then he gets sucked into a painting with them and finds himself unceremoniously dragged onto the deck of the Dawn Treader, Prince Caspian's (Ben Barnes) finest ship.  Caspian is looking to make things right with the seven Telmarine lords that knew his father and is sailing for The Lonely Isles to find them.

What they get is imprisoned to be sold as slaves.  The only remaining lord is a prisoner in the dungeon and explains that being sold at auction is still better than being given to the mist, a mysterious green fog that takes boats full of people as a sacrifice.  They narrowly escape and travel to a different island where Lucy manages to break a spell of invisibility and earns the goodwill of the sorceror Coriakin (Billie Brown) who tells them that they need to lay 7 swords, previously owned by the seven lords, on Aslan's Table in order to defeat the evil green mist.  He warns them that until the swords are on the table, they will be subject to temptations. 

Greed, Envy, and Pride all make their appearances.  I was half worried there'd be some weird creepy seduction attempt, but thankfully not.  Of course God and England prevail over all and everyone learns valuable lessons about friendship and blah blah blah.

I am consistently amazed that they managed to get Tilda Swinton and Liam Neeson back for the two sequels.  There are fewer animal effects in this one (half-humans and the like) and the ones they do have seem less realistic.  The minotaur looks more cartoony and less like a dude covered in yak hair, is what I'm saying.  The CGI in general is almost too bright and shiny, which detracts somewhat from the tone.

They lost Ben Barnes' horrible accent, though.  That's a major step up from last time.  Will Poulter's character provides a much needed dose of snark without coming across as too cynical.  Altogether, not a bad note for the franchise to end on.