Ok so the other day I watched The Golden Compass and having read the book and compared the two in my mind I decided to make a review.

Summery: The Golden Compass is about a magical world where people's souls are out of their bodies and are animals called daemons. One girl Lyra gets her slef mixed up in an adveture dealing with children kidnappers and a magical golden compass.

Positives:
Over all the movie was great! It match up almost perfectly to the book and the characters matched up brilliantly as well. Nicole Kidman was fantastic! I was really impressed with the great effects and the great acting. I was even impressed about how they changed the "evil" church in the book to the government(sending out a message maybe?)so that it wouldn't hurt religous people.

Negitives:
They removed a few small things here and there which is not too important and I could live with that.
BUT.
They did the worse thing EVER!!!
They cut out like the last three chapters of the book from the movie!!!
The movie ends with Lyra saying, "We'll help my Dad acomplish his goal. I know it." (or something like that) Then it ends. Just ends.

Maybe they were setting up for a sequel you say, but the book already sets it up for a sequel. Maybe it would have been too long you say. Well then they could have cut down the two fight scenes that went on for 10 minutes.
Even though fight scenes are exciting the ending to the book is WAY more exciting than the two fight scenes.

Ok, so over all this was a pretty good movie, if you like the book and don't really care if the whole ending is gone then I say go ahead and watch it. If you have not read the book I suggest you read it or go see the movie.
~Chero~