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Avg. Customer Rating:  255 reviews
Sales Rank: 4699
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 114
ASIN: B001AG52AG
Theatrical Release Date: December 7, 2007
Release Date: December 1, 2008
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 skip the movie--read the book November 22, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
A Hollywood studio spent millions of dollars making a movie that sucks the life out of a fantastic book--what a surprise!
This movie has a fine cast, lavish production values and great special effects. All it lacks is a soul.
By all means, read the book, and the remainder of Pullman's wonderful trilogy. But don't waste your time on this pointless exercise.
Not the worst fantasy movie, but certainly not the best. November 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"The Golden Compass" made a decent fantasy movie. Most of the characters in it were very good (I found Lee Scoresby and Iorek Byrnison to be especially likeable). It also had a very unique environment that departed from the normal medieval-ish confines of the fantasy genre. Unfortunately, the story in it seemed quite predictable and uninspiring. I never found it terribly exciting. It held my interest the entire time, but I don't see myself standing in line to wait for the sequels. "The Golden Compass" is a good work to have in your fantasy collection, but there are many better works of fantasy out there.
disappointment November 8, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
The movie was a disapointment. Yeah, the graphics were ok but not as good. The story line deviates from the book. If you are a fan of the book I recommend not buying this movie. It's ok to watch but not to own. They could have done much more but they didn't. I watched the movie before deciding wether to buy it or not and trust me, its not worth your money.
Couldn't make any sense of it November 3, 2008
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
I've got a funny feeling that this was made by massive fans of the book. And they thought that every one else in the world, has read it and where also massive fans of the book. I've never read the book, so maybe if I had the movie might have made some sense.
The book was very good - the movie was disappointing November 2, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I read the first two books with great enthusiasm, and slowed a bit with the third as it petered out and became preachy.
But I was excited about Golden Compass because it was a well written book and I was interested to see how it was ported to the big screen.
Sadly, it was dumbed-down so much that most of the plot of the book - which was unraveled skillfully in the book - is revealed in the first 5 minutes of the movie through exposition.
You are flat out told that people in this world wear their souls on the outside of their body in the form of familiar animals. In the book you figure it out on your own and feel clever about it when you do so.
This is the case for half the plot of the book. It is just told to you in synopsis form by a narrator and all of the joy of DISCOVERING things is taken from you.
I don't know who the director is, but I intend to find out and avoid his future movies. Hopefully they hire him to finish out the series (doubtful, since this one was dismal at the box office) so he won't ruin any other movies for a while.
In short, if you liked the book - and Golden Compass was a good book, even if you are an intolerant right wing person this book shouldn't have offended you, they don't start really offending the Catholics until book three in my opinion - then you will be disappointed by the movie. It was just poorly done.
A final note, yes - the special effects and cinematography were good, but any idiot with some money can hire good computer graphic companies and do that these days. It was the story that was ruined by this shoddy directing.
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