I think the budget and cliffhanger feel that will never be justified by a sequel are enough evidence of overambition here, but hey, I don't mind, because this is indeed a decent film, just not quite what it wants to be, partly because everyone in this film is too busy to come back for a sequel, and largely because of some serious flaws.Īlmost surprisingly, this film gets kind of cheesy, featuring some dialogue and humor that are hokey in something of a kiddy way, and even tainting its mythology with somewhat, as Korey Coleman of put it, 'dorky' elements that seem to further kiddy things up. They may as well pull a cute 'coincidence' like that if they're going to have those two actors around in this cast full of British stars that Chris Weitz ostensibly assembled because he's so ambitious about breaking away from the 'American Pie' image with his first film out of the shadow of his brother that he wants to make this thing as British as possible. talking polar bears were actually in Philip Pullman's original book, and also because the filmmakers felt like messing with us, because as if it's not hard enough to keep from getting Ian McKellen and Ian McShane confused, they go ahead and collaborate in the form of polar bears. Oh, they probably just put them in because. No, this is still too anti-Christian to be like the overtly pro-Christian 'Narnia' series, so much so that they seem to be making fun of Republicans (I don't know if they're poking fun at Ann Coulter, but I'm starting to get a little more confident that I'm the only non-religious Conservative in America), no matter how much they try to evoke thoughts of Aslan the lion god with these awesome, anthropomorphic polar bears. Wow, in a discussion regarding this film, I found a way to address Ann Coulter, so this probably isn't as exciting as the 'Chronicles of Narnia' rip-off I was expecting it to be, although it does feel like a rip-off of a rip-off. Shoot, forget organized religion, this might be a deconstruction of the conservative republican party, because I'm not entirely confident that they're not trying to say something when they name the evil, female political figure in this film Mrs. or almost two hours of mostly exposition and allegorical deconstructions of organized religion. She tests Lyra by asking her a question that she couldn't possibly know the answer to.We're talking about a futuristic world, spirit animals, warrior polar bears, James Bond as an adventurous college professor (British Indy!) and Sam Elliott as a cowboy aeronaut, so this is either going to be an awesome definitive fantasy epic. While on the Gyptian's ship, headed north, Lyra is visited by a witch who believes that Lyra is the child about whom prophecies have been made.Ma Costa tells Lyra that they have been keeping an eye on her ever since she left the college, because they did not trust Mrs. Just when they have her cornered, she is rescued by the Gyptians, whom she immediately trusts because her friend, Billy Costa's, mother is with them. Coulter's daemon, she escapes, but is pursued by the Gobblers. After recovering the Golden Compass from Mrs. Lyra is appalled to find that two of her friends' names are on the list. Coulter is in charge of the Gobblers and tells them which children to steal. From these papers they figure out that Mrs. Coulter's house, Pan falls into a wastebasket, and emerges with some papers that he shows Lyra.

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