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Nicole Kidman (Actor), Daniel Craig (Actor), Chris Weitz (Director) Rated: Parental Guidance Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Dakota Blue Richards, Ben Walker, Sam Elliott
  • Directors: Chris Weitz
  • Producers: Bill Carraro, Deborah Forte
  • Format: Anamorphic, Widescreen, PAL
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Eiv
  • DVD Release Date: 28 April 2008
  • Run Time: 113 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (315 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0014XVTJ8
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Big-budget children's fantasy adventure adapted from the first instalment of Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' trilogy. Lyra (Dakota Blue Richards), a twelve year-old girl living in an Oxford somewhat dissimilar to the one we're used to, goes off in search of a friend who has been kidnapped by 'the Gobblers'. In this alternate world, where a person's soul appears outside the body in the form of an animal called a 'daemon', and witches and talking bears co-exist, a shadowy organisation called the 'Magisterium' controls the population, keeping them in check. As she embarks on her quest to find her friend, Lyra is soon involved in an epic battle against the forces of darkness in a desperate attempt to save her world.

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Perhaps it didn’t ignite the box office in quite the way it’d been hoped, but that’s little reason to pass over the qualities of The Golden Compass now it arrives on DVD. Based on the Phillip Pullman novel His Dark Materials--itself the start of the Northern Lights trilogy, the film isn’t without a few problems, but emerges as a quality adaptation.

And you certainly can’t fault The Golden Compass for sheer ambition. The story, for those new to the series, is primarily that of 12-year old Lyra, who is in search of her friend who has been kidnapped. Naturally, this proves to be quite a challenging adventure, not least because it’s through Pullman’s vividly imagined world, crossing dimensions as Lyra travels. The film, while toning down and fiddling with some elements of the source material, stays quite close to the book, and it proves to be a good, if not Lord Of The Rings-standard, adaptation.

What helps The Golden Compass, on top of the strong effects work and scope of the production, is a solid cast, featuring the likes of Daniel Craig, Nicole Kidman and Dakota Blue Richards. And it certainly whets the appetite for the next instalment in the series. Whether the muted box office returns put pay to that remains to be seen: for now, at least, The Golden Compass is a good, solid family movie that’s easy to enjoy. --Jon Foster --This text refers to an alternate DVD edition.

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1.0 out of 5 starsA disappointing and fragmented adaptation
By S. Datta on 20 Nov. 2009
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You have to applaud any director for being willing to take on this trilogy. Combining a set of novels which are at once intricately woven and simultaneously panoramic in terms of themes, ideas and even characters into a set of films is hugely ambitious. So how does the first adaption fare?

Well, on the plus side it looks, on the whole, beautiful. Some of the CGI is a little wobbly, particularly around the armoured bears, but the renditions of the icy landscapes and steepled Oxford are beautiful. Equally the casting of the main characters is spot on, with Nicole Kidman perfect as the cold and arch Mrs. Coulter and Sam Elliot as the astronaut (who I forget the name of!). Others clearly disagree but I liked Dakota Blue Richards - she is clearly, particularly in the first book, a cocky and annoying street kid as well as the complex character she develops into and the actress captures both of these.

On the downsides, well, very simply, it is hopelessly fragmented in every sense. The overarching themes and ideas which make the book so beautiful and much more than the sum of its parts are very much lost in the adaptation and renders the film just a set of rather beautiful set pieces. There are so many examples of this, but to pick a few: the sense of the daemons being an integral part of the person is lost despite forced scripting to - it rather feels like their little pet buddy rather than anything else; key religious aspects are largely lost entirely which form the foundation of later stories and which shape the characters themselves; the witches pop up out nowhere, with no history and none of their beautiful back story - they were reduced to simply an airforce attack unit ("Quick, we're being attacked from the sky, call the witches!") - and then disappear equally quickly.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsThis is not an extended edition of the movie
By boywiththestarsinhiseyes on 10 May 2008
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Just to reiterate J.J. Hall's review, I saw this title in a store alongside the original and thought that like with LOTR they'd reinstated lots of scenes that would would enhance the film but were deemed cuttable to get the running time down to an acceptable cinema length. A quick perusal of both boxes showed that both had main features that ran for 108 mins. What you get with this 2-disc edition is just lots of extra features (making ofs, interviews, etc). From the same company that did the excellent LOTR extended editions, this is a real disappointment. This isn't a review of the film (which I still haven't seen to be honest, heard mixed reviews but utterly love the books), just didn't want to see anyone caught out by the "extended" on the cover.
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3.0 out of 5 starsA quality HD transfer, shame about the movie
By Vinman666 on 19 Jun. 2008
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The high definition transfer to this Blu-ray disc is excellent: rich saturated colours and awesome levels of detail. Sound quality is equally good and although I don't have the ability to play the uncompressed DTS HD soundtrack the dynamic rangeis apparent even in standard stereo. In this respect it's one of the best Blu-ray discs I've seen so far.

That was the good news (and reason for the 3 stars); if only the conversion of book to movie had been even remotely as good. The special effects are very good and Lyra's Oxford is well realised; Mrs Coulter is also subtly played by the excellent Nicole Kidman and...unfortunately that's about as far as I can go with compliments.

The strengths of the book(s) are Philip Pullman's expert story-telling, allied to a complex - but accessible - plot and wonderful characters.
Of course condensing everything from the book to a 2 hour film would be impossible but what we are presented with is a series of action sequences linked by ham-fisted exposition. For example, the episode with Billy Costa (who has merged characters with Tony Macarios), once found separated from his Ratter, should emphasise the relationship between human and daemon and build the requisite tension to what is happening at Bolvangar but the opportunity is wasted. Then there is the pointless re-naming of Iofur Raknison to 'Ragnar' (one can just imagine the Focus Group brainstorming a generic scandinavian name: "Ooh I know, how about Ernest Borgnine's name in The Vikings!") and the weakening of Iorek Byrnison (why not rename him too: Erik the Ice Bear, anyone?) by having him (1) expelled from Svalbard as a coward and (2) almost killed and only just saved by Lee Scoresby.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsA passable adaptation of an excellent book
By Mendo Shutaro VINE VOICE on 5 Jun. 2008
Format: Blu-ray
This is certainly a beautiful looking movie, and looks wonderful on blu-ray, no doubts there. However as an adaptation of Philip Pullman's excellent novel it falls rather short. Much of the commentary of the terrible evils of religion and their attacks on freedom, science, and knowledge, and specifically the catholic church have been removed or dulled hugely, changing the story from a multi faceted and complex tale into a simple adventure yarn.

Also, and this is particularly agregious, the final chapter was completely omitted, robbing the story of any closure at all, and given how this performed in the US box office, thanks to religious nut cases running a smear campaign against it I doubt the two sequels will ever get made.

My advice - read the books instead.
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