I have read so much negative criticism of this film that I wondered how it could have been made better. I think mainly it could have been more successful with a script that was closer to the book. The film was not all bad as some people would have you believe. It actually looked quite good on the screen with a beautiful ship and had some good acting by Will Poulter as Eustace. The problem was adding something not in the book such as the Green Mist and leaving out important characters such as Ramandu while just having his island and his daughter, which is only having part of the real story. I don’t think there was any need to drastically change the plot of the book in order to create the movie. But I think Michael Apted did a fine job on the movie’s appearance and making Eustace turn into a very realistic dragon. So the movie has its positive aspects in spite of the criticism of some people like Dr. Michael Ward and others who have panned it. So I think this criticism is too harsh and is not very helpful:

https://www.narniaweb.com/2024/11/dr-michael-ward-on-greta-gerwig-directing-narnia/

Let’s hope Greta Gerwig or someone else can give us a new Dawn Treader movie which looks as good as Michael Apted’s but is much closer to the original book. 🙂