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THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER (TVNZ 2, 6.30pm). The youngest of the Pevensie kids, Lucy and Edmund, return to Narnia with Eustace, their annoying brat of a cousin, for a nautical adventure that reunites them with Prince Caspian. The third and final film of the family-fantasy franchise might have adapted the most popular book in the series, but, directed by veteran Michael Apted rather than Andrew Adamson, it was all a bit slow and ponderous. (2010)

Energetic and potty-humoured animated adaptation of Dav Pilkey’s kids’ books about a mean headmaster who is hypnotised by

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