I mean look at Reep and Trumpkin in PC. They were both in pretty bad shape by the end of a couple of the battles.

Actually, I thought that they looked like they were in pretty good shape, given what they had gone through. Trumpkin had a few spots of blood on his head, but that was about it. Reepicheep didn't even look like he was hurt, except for that his tail was missing. In the book, a very graphic description of the wounded Reepicheep is given.

I mean look at Reep and Trumpkin in PC. They were both in pretty bad shape by the end of a couple of the battles.

Actually, I thought that they looked like they were in pretty good shape, given what they had gone through. Trumpkin had a few spots of blood on his head, but that was about it. Reepicheep didn't even look like he was hurt, except for that his tail was missing. In the book, a very graphic description of the wounded Reepicheep is given.

Trumpkin was unconscience, wasn't he? And Reep was being carried around half-dead on a platform held by his people. They were in better shape a few seconds later, but that's because Lucy gave them a healing cordial.

~Riella

[quote="Prince Caspian, Chapter 15":2i6rzi7s]
On the litter lay what seemed little better than a damp heap of fur; all that was left of Reepicheep. He was still breathing, but more dead than alive, gashed with innumerable wounds, one paw crushed, and, where his tail had been, a bandaged stump.

Reepicheep did not have any visible injuries in the movie and his tail-stump was not even bandaged or bloody, even before Lucy's healing cordial.

Reepicheep did not have any visible injuries in the movie and his tail-stump was not even bandaged or bloody, even before Lucy's healing cordial.

They couldn't really put blood and terrible injuries on him, because if he was as badly hurt as he was in the book, then they would lose their PG rating, and it would be PG-13 for blood/gore. And they wanted it to be a family film, which it would not necessarily be if it was PG-13. I still think they got the idea across, without the gore, that he was badly wounded. After all, he was lying there, dying, unable to walk, being carried on a litter, while his people played a funeral-like dirge. And if he hadn't taken the cordial, he would have died, becoming a casualty of war.

This, along with Trumpkin, and especially the episode where they had to abandon their fellow-fighters on the other side of the castle gate, clearly shows the ugliness of war.

~Riella

You can't show the ugliness of war with a PG rating. The scene that got closest to it, yes, was the Night Raid but much of the point of showing the ugliness of warn is lost with the non-offensive PG rating.

I would say that out of all the battles of the first three films so far, the Night Raid is the only one where the consequences of battle are shown, and the only one that really doesn't glorify violence.