The Golden Compass (C+)

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Reviewed by Hackett & Costello from TheCritics.tv
Director: Chris Weitz
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Dakota Blue Richards, Sam Elliott, Eva Green, Daniel Craig, Tom Courtenay, Derek Jacobi, Ben Walker, Adam Godley, Simon McBurney, Clare Higgins, Ian McShane, Jim Carter, and Christopher Lee
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 43%
Our Rating: C+

[Sheridan Passell]

Great review guys. 4 minutes of pure electricity. Who'd have thought Kidman would work so well as a cold-hearted ice queen?...

[dalmatianjaws]

Response from the 2 o'clock Critics

[Tiger]

I want to watch a film with you guys and then hang around in the street at (I guess) 2 o'clock in the morning - That's just the kind of thing I want to do.

I have not read the books...yet...It's not because I haven't had an opportunity, because I have, it just seems like a lot of effort.  I suppose being made to read Paradise Lost a couple of years ago for Uni sort of crushed my appetite for huge books.  Anyway, I don't plan on seeing the film before reading the books, I've been warned that it may ruin my idea of the characters in the book, and I suppose that is possible.

Having said that, I might just watch the film first anyway, because I am weak and can't handle Uni work plus large novels!

[wesdol]

Nobody could drag my carcass to the theater to watch this travesty . . . good to know my assumptions were correct.