The Golden Compass [Blu-ray]
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Actor: Dakota Blue Richards, Daniel Craig, Nicole KidmanBrand: Warner Brothers
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-04-29
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: New Line Home Video
DVD Reviews of The Golden Compass [Blu-ray]
DVD Review: Terrible!
Summary: 1 Stars
This was a really bad movie. Maybe it was a better book. The Harry Potter, and Narnia movies were so much better. I can see why there will probably not be a followup movie.DVD Review: Don't watch this if you'v ever read the book!!!
Summary: 2 Stars
For those who are familiar with Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy will be greatly unsatisfied with the adaptation of the fist book in Pullman's trilogy. Much of the story is left told, some chapters along with characters and groups of character are completely cut out while others are rearranged or switched out, even rewritten. this gives the movie the feeling of being rushed and not fully completed before it hit the screen. Someone should have put more thought into this adaptation before trying to put it on the screen. There was only one thing about this movie that i did find pleasing and that was the casting of the characters. All the actors preformed the part wonderfully in spite of the over all uncompleted feeling the movie leaves you with. The actors are the only reason i am giving this movie 2 stars instead of one. DVD Review: 2.5 stars out of 4
Summary: 3 Stars
The Bottom Line:
The Golden Compass is not a perfect film--it feels incomplete at times and some of the plotlines, like Daniel Craig's, are given the short shrift--but it's an entertaining and enjoyable enough fantasy film for those who don't find it ideologically offensive.
DVD Review: ADVENTURE
Summary: 5 Stars
GREAT MOVIE! SUPERB DIGITAL GRAPHICS OF ANIMALS. ACTORS WELL-KNOWN AND DO A FANTASTIC JOB. GOOD STORY LINE. CAN'T WAIT FOR MOVIE #2 SEQUEL AND THEN #3 AS IN THE BOOK SERIES. DVD Review: Golden Compass
Summary: 5 Stars
A great movie. As it didn't do particularly well it appears unlikely that the rest of the story will be filmed. But it's a great encentive to read the books.
Description of The Golden Compass [Blu-ray]
In a parallel universe where witches rule the skies and armoured bears are the bravest warriors, young Lyra Belacqua journeys from her home among the scholars at Oxford to the far North to save her best friend. Based on the first book in the Carnegie Medal-winning series, His Dark Materials.A fantasy epic with more than a passing resemblance to the Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia film franchises, The Golden Compass takes place in an alternate universe where each human's soul is embodied in a companion animal called a daemon. Lyra (Dakota Blue Richards), an orphan who's lived most of her life among the scholars at Oxford, is intrigued when her uncle, Lord Asriel (Daniel Craig), announces his plans to travel north to investigate the source of some mysterious particles called Dust. Lyra has little hope of following her uncle until a mysterious woman named Mrs. Coulter (Nicole Kidman, at her most icily beautiful) asks Lyra to travel north as her personal assistant. All is not as it seems, however, and the disappearance of Lyra's friend Roger (Ben Walker) sets her on a dizzying adventure. She does have an alethiometer, or golden compass, that can help her see the truth, and a number of companions, including her shape-shifting daemon, Pantalaimion (voiced by Freddie Highmore of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), polar-bear warrior Iorek Byrnison (voiced by Ian McKellen), Texas aeronaut Lee Scoresby (Sam Elliott), and witch queen Serafina Pekkala (Craig's Casino Royale co-star, Eva Green). Even before its release, The Golden Compass was the subject of controversy over its perceived anti-religious themes. While it does involve an oppressive institution called the Magisterium, it's not overtly religious, particularly to a young viewer. The movie's PG-13 rating should be taken seriously, however. Suitable for an older audience than Narnia (though younger than The Lord of the Rings), it deals with complex concepts, violence (though largely bloodless) and implied death, children and animals in peril, and an unrelentingly ominous and unsettling mood.
Despite a few changes and rearrangements, the overall plot of the movie is remarkably faithful to its source material, the first installment of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. It doesn't finish the book, however, and--much like The Fellowship of the Ring did--leaves the viewer hanging in anticipation of the next film, The Subtle Knife, due in 2009. So even though The Golden Compass is impressive--especially with its spot-on cast and terrific visual effects--we probably won't know its full emotional impact until the story is complete. --David Horiuchi
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