The Golden Compass (2-DVD) PG-13
There are worlds beyond our own - the compass will show the way.
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 29, 2008
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: New Line Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Nicole Kidman | |
Performer: | Dakota Blue Richards, Eva Green, Daniel Craig, Tom Courtenay, Derek Jacobi, Ben Walker, Adam Godley, Simon McBurney, Clare Higgins, Ian McShane, Jim Carter, Christopher Lee & Sam Elliott | |
Directed by | Chris Weitz | |
Screenwriting by | Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz | |
Original story by | Philip Pullman | |
Composition by | Alexandre Desplat | |
Produced by | Deborah Forte, Bill Carraro & Ileen Maisel | |
Director of Photography: | Henry Braham | |
Executive Production by | Michael Lynne, Mark Ordesky & Andrew Miano |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2007 -
Best Visual Effects: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
"The Golden Compass ultimately fails as a film in its broad strokes and inadequate scene development."
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Premiere Magazine
Excruciating pap
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CinePassion
Rating: C --
An engaging fantasy adventure that, albeit no masterpiece, is hardly the disaster one might have imagined.
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ESplatter
Rating: 2/4 --
There is a good idea buried here somewhere - it's just indistinguishable from the dust of stale ones.
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The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
Weitzman hits all the book's plot points without ginning up any of its corresponding emotion.
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WORLD
Rating: 6/10 --
The Golden Compass isn't bad, it's cast is too good and it's too well made, but something fundamental to good storytelling - heart - has been lost, leaving a final product as icy and impossible to care for as Mrs. Coulter herself.
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ComingSoon.net
Rating: 2/5 --
I realize that when you make a book into a movie you cannot include every single detail, but it seems like Weitz purposely tried to take all of the magic out of the story.
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Watertown Daily Times
Product Description:
THE GOLDEN COMPASS is an adaptation of the first book in the beloved but controversial fantasy series by Phillip Pullman. The story opens with Lyra Belacqua (Dakota Blue Richards) an orphan girl who lives in an alternate world that is similar to earth, but where people's souls exist outside of their bodies in animal form. The people are ruled by a shadowy and oppressive council known as the Magisterium, which is doing it's best to keep everyone from getting information about what is called "Dust." Lyra's Uncle Asriel (Daniel Craig) has been researching Dust, and he has seen to it that Lyra is given safe shelter at Jordan College. But when the visiting Mrs. Coulter (Nicole Kidman) arrives, she asks Lyra to accompany her on a trip to the North to meet the Panserbjorne, a race of armored bears. Before Lyra leaves, the Headmaster gives her a golden compass, a device which only she can read, and from which she can intuit the truth. Lyra leaves with Mrs. Coulter, but when she learns that her friends have been kidnapped by "Gobblers," she heads out to find them, and soon joins forces with the nomadic Gyptians, some witches, and an armored bear called Iorek Byrnison (voice by Ian McKellen). Lyra finds her friends, and so discovers the evil plans the Magisterium has cooked up for the world's children. By the film's end, she has vowed to track down her Uncle Asriel, and to discover the true power of Dust.
Hollywood had a tricky time of taming this tale, as Pullman's books portray religion - the Catholic Church in particular - in a less than flattering light. The film version carefully steers clear of these themes, and instead puts its enormous budget into creating visually stunning effects. While fans of the books may find fault with this streamlined version, children are sure to revel in the many talking animals and whimsical airships.
Hollywood had a tricky time of taming this tale, as Pullman's books portray religion - the Catholic Church in particular - in a less than flattering light. The film version carefully steers clear of these themes, and instead puts its enormous budget into creating visually stunning effects. While fans of the books may find fault with this streamlined version, children are sure to revel in the many talking animals and whimsical airships.
Keywords:
Fantasy
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Witches And Wizards
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Theatrical Release
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Soul
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R&B / Soul
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Bears
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Witches
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Fantasy Worlds