There is something very odd at work if I’m watching a film based on one of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia books and the one thing I can’t stop thinking about is “Dear Lord, this movie is too much like Army of Darkness!”

Not kidding folks. It happened yesterday when Lisa and I went to Greensboro to see The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. The second adaptation of the classic Lewis fantasy series from Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media. And there is also plenty in this movie that will remind people of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings and even the Harry Potter films.

But it was Sam Raimi’s Army of Darkness that this viewer kept finding parallels to. Let’s see: Heroes whisked away to another place and time to fight evil? Check. Modern technology used in a medieval setting? Check. Body parts chopped off and replaced? Check. ...