Narnia Movie “Prince Caspian” Voice Acting Review

 

The long awaited The Chronicles of Narnia : Prince Caspian has been in theatres for just short of two weeks, and let me tell you, was it ever something.

The voice acting was very good and I must say that I was particularly fond of the voice of the badger, Trufflehunter, voiced by Ken Stott.

There was some great comic relief from a sword-wielding mouse, Reepicheep, voiced by Eddie Izzard.

I was taken aback by just how few Liam Neeson’s lines as Aslan were in the film. For all of the hype I expected that his character Aslan would have played a larger role in Prince Caspian. I haven’t read this particular Narnia book and am unaware if portions of the novel were left out to keep the film to 2 hours and 20 minutes.

One observation I made as the credits rolled by on the screen was that there were no female voice actors!

The movie was male dominated, both on-camera actors and off, so it wasn’t a huge surprise to see a lack of female voice talent listed in the credits. I’ve heard that you need to have a certain number of lines in a film before you are credited, so it’s possible that there were female talent who provided voice overs but because their lines were so few, they were not mentioned.

Prince Caspian Voice Cast

Liam Neeson as the voice of Aslan
Ken Stott as the voice of Trufflehunter
Harry Gregson-Williams as the voice of Pattertwig the Squirrel
Sim Evan-Jones as the voice of Peepiceek
David Walliams as the voice of Bulgy Bear
Eddie Izzard as the voice of Reepicheep

Source: Stephanie Ciccarelli of VOX Daily