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DVD : The Golden Compass (New Line Platinum Series Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)In association with Amazon.comstarring: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Dakota Blue Richards, Ben Walker (IX), Freddie Highmore directed by: Chris Weitz  
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0794043120435 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: New Line Home Video Manufacturer: New Line Home Video Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: New Line Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: April 29, 2008 Running Time: 113 minutes Studio: New Line Home Video Theatrical Release Date: December 07, 2007 Sales Rank: 2227 MPN: 1000038167 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY/FANTASY UPC: 794043120435 Manufacturer No: 1000038167 Amazon.com: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - ADD Character Development REMOVE Hate-FestThis movie (and I assume the book) started out with what could have been a great premise. People in a parallel universe live with their souls outside their bodies. The special effects in the movie made the scenes wonderful to watch. However, I didn't go to the theater in order to go to a kind of moving picture art museum; I went to see a movie. And a movie requires enough character development for me to care whether or not the heroine lives or dies or the person she's trying ... Read More Rating:  - just a little reviewI just had to stop and do a quick review of this movie. This is the first review of a movie I have ever done. The reason I had to review this one in particular is because while glancing through DVDs on Amazon.com I noticed this one had only 3 stars. What??? I thought this was one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. Definitely one of the best "family" movies ever. Sometimes I find myself falling asleep during "family" movies. Not this one. The only thing I can think of to why it has ... Read More Rating:  - Better than expectedDue to the not so great reviews and the supposed complexity of the story if you didn't read the books, I was not expecting to really like this one, but hey the library was renting it. I watched it with my 8 year old, and we had to laugh as we remembered picking it out at the library and a friend of my daughter saw the movie in my hands and proclaimed "it has no God in it". A lot of movies don't, so I didn't really care. Anyways, we put the movie in and I told my daughter to really ... Read More Rating: - Golden Compass leaves you hangingSeems like the whole movie was made just to set up a sequel, unfinished movie. The end doesn't complete the journey. Rating: - The Golden Compass I thought I was ordering the movie and instead got the game. My gradson is thrilled, so I guess, thanks. Browse for similar items by category:
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