I was in love with the book series, no matter what some people say, and COULD NOT WAIT for this to come out. When it finally did. I almost walked out halfway through. The director messed up everything for no purpose at all and cut off the entire ending!!! WHY???!!! If you are a Compassy, please don't see this.

There were parts that were too scary for me!

I still am hoping to read the books series, because this was a great movie. Work has had me real busy lately. Other than the violence, I think kids would be able to handle this movie just fine. It is admittedly, a little on the dark side, but I believe holds some truths that you can discuss with your kids who are cognitively over 12 and capable of abstract thought. Discuss with them the role of the Magisterium, and what a daemon could symbolically represent in the life of a child. I think it's important to emphasize that one has to keep with them their imagination, no matter how old they are. Children are going to face establishments/institutions in the world that try to hinder or 86 there ability to be curious and question the world around them. To be close-minded like Magisterium is to find one's self in a concrete world of dullness and blind obedience. Thus, why it may be hard to discuss these ideals over with younger children. Still, the power of imagination can be encouraged at any age, old or young, and the is the movie to help encourage it.

This movie was terrible and ruined the book--which is FANTASTIC. I was so disappointed. And everyone should get over the religious thing. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BELIEVE WHAT YOU READ!!

The film has only one violent scene where the polar bears are attacking eachother. But overall, it's not that bad. In my opinion, the movie was really good until the ending. I know that they were trying to make you think and all, but, it makes me upset that they haven't yet made a sequel. It's disapointing that they would get you all excited and make you anxious about the next movie. But all along, there wasn't ever going to be a second movie.

I truly enjoyed this movie. It was fun. I wanted to check it out after all the buzz about it being anti-christian As a Christian I wanted to make up my own mind, and honestly I didn't get that from the movie at all. I do know that the author wrote it as the "non religious" version of CS Lewis' Chronicle of Narnia. But even those books when reading are not readily pro religious to a child reading. Of course the views of both authors are reflected upon dissecting of the story(CS Lewis a staunch christian and Pullman an unabashed atheist and/or agnostic) We see this as adults who look deeper, but children do not dissect the text of a book they read for deeper meaning often. It's fun and it's fantasy. No more and no less.

Just like Harry Potter, they casted exactly the right actors for the job. The images of the book (book one in my all-time favorite series), we're wonderfully recreated, if not somewhat rushed, and watered-down by the Catholic Church. Now I'm not going to go into religious matters, but this really is a great movie...

Wish they'd made the sequel! Action-packed and exciting, I actually enjoyed it! I loved Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig's characters, and thought it was very heartwarming. Good movie.

This is a very excellent movie. I read the books also and know that it is very... Awsome! anybody who says it is off (because it is somthing different than their religion) should've known about the movie. I mean... it's just fiction. But an amazing fiction at that. This is a wonderful movie to see where Lyra takes a big step away from her homey Jordan Colledge, into an adventure.