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Title: Too silly for words
Review: OK, I confess that I haven't read the book, so I approach this as a piece of cinema. It is nicely filmed and the visual effects are lush and pretty (even though some of the daemons don't look that realistic some of the time). However, I just couldn't accept the plotline, such as it was. It is, as I said above, too silly for words. Now I know that the books have come under considerable fire from the loony wing of the US evangelical community for the atheistic views that Mr. Pullman is said to have built into them and which, they said, he was trying to inculcate into children. Perhaps this explains the dilution of the story from the book into a rather insipid kids' adventure yarn. The one highlight for me was Nicole Kidman's chilling villain. Nothing else.The comments of some of the other reviewers have persuaded me to read the book, to see what might have been.
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