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Nicole Kidman
Daniel Craig
Sam Elliott
Eva Green
Dakota Blue Richards
Ian McKellen

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The Golden Compass, based on Philip Pullman's novel tells the first story in 'His Dark Materials' trilogy. A 12-year-old girl travels in an epic quest to save her friend and her world. -- Josh C

06/15/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

The Golden Compass

Within 10 minutes ofwatching this movie, I had no idea what was going on whatsoever. And worse, i didn't care at all. So for the next hour and a half i tried to go on visuals and moments, and even they were dull. This is a terribly dire 'family' movie that i can't see children enjoying very much. If they do make the next two movies, i'll give them a miss. This one didn't pull me in at all.

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1.5/4 

03/10/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Fun movie

The movie was overall pretty good. I loved all the animals in it (except for the monkey, it kinda creeped me out). The plot was a little hard to follow, but once you understood it the movie was actually pretty good. You can't wait to see what happens next. I was a little disapointed when it ended, and how it ended. But I loved how the animals talked with voices that fitted them (unlike some movies).

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3/4 

07/09/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

The Rusty Compass

The CGI and effects save this movie, without a doubt. The plot is shaky and not very convincing to the point where you sometimes barely know what the hell is going on, combined with a child doing a very, very awful cockney accent; a small part, but, yes it was that bad that it needed to be addressed.

The film calls in the services of Daniel Craig, after his soaring roles as "James Bond" and he was advertised to be on the film, a film in which he appeared for very little and seemed to be a meaningless character, which brings me on to my next point.

If you are a die-hard Golden Compass book reader, then you would most probably like the film, but if not then you may find that this film won't make much sense to you.


As stated earlier, the CGI and effects are brilliant and are put t...

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2/4