Movie: The Golden Compass

Starring Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig and a host of newbies The Golden Compass is taken from the Phillip Pullman “Dark Materials” trilogy of fantasy fiction novels. These are “kidult” books that follow the journey of two young childen, Lyra and Will as they make their way through parallel universes as various adventures meet them.

Although the story line was interesting and the graphics, costumes and music were wonderful I still found myself getting a bit bored halfway through. I think this is possibly the “Lord of the Rings” effect on me. This is where the names are quite difficult to understand without having seen them in written form as well as being so many of the characters that I get bored trying to follow who was who. I think reading the book before hand might save me a bit of time.

In the first opening scenes there is a round building with a great dome on top. This is in Oxford and if you read my Oxford post you may well recognise it as the building through the church glass window.

5 out of 10.

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