To put it simply I didn’t like this film. There are many things that are wrong with this adaptation of Northern Lights which I have read several times. This film is a good example of how a good book with interesting character development and plot being turned into attractive eye candy for the simple minded. The story in the book is a complex interesting story that grips me each time I read it. One of the biggest changes that any person that has read the book will notice is the clear absence of the church as the enemy. Understandably the film has to have been changed a little in the aspect that America is a Christian country and the book has several challenging questions about God and religion.

To really sum it up the golden compass is just another example of classic Hollywood film making. The producers of this film clearly weren’t interested in creating a film that was interesting and a film that did justice to the book. They clearly where just interested in making money. And with the CGI scattered everywhere in the film you can see where all that money went.

So if you don’t walk out before that absolute travesty of an ending I’ll think you’ll find whether you’ve read the book or not. This film is really isn’t any good at all.