Review of The Golden Compass (2007) by Danh. — 13 Dec 2007
Unfortunately this film starts with a massive handicap: trying to live up to people's expectation. The book was brilliant, probably the best of the trilogy and very dark for a "children's" book.
People expected the film to follow suit and follow Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings with it's careful character development and deliberately slow pacing. People expected a dark fable with a 12a rating that asked as many questions as the book did about religion, life, death and everything in between.
What we have is film which seems to have achieved the impossible, to actually be entertaining universally. As a parent these types of films are like goldust, I have fallen asleep through so many disney/dreamworks productions recently and been ripped off by their merchandise.
My 5 yr old daughter loved it and I thought even without the appropriate amount of character development and rushed scenes it encapsulated enough of the book's magic to make it one of the finest fantasy films in recent years.
Ignore the critics who are all in their mid-40s, single and voice a demographic rather than a universal opinion.
This review of The Golden Compass (2007) was written by Danh. on 13 Dec 2007.
The Golden Compass has generally received mixed reviews.
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