Recently i saw the preview of the movie "The Golden Compass"
This is its description:-
In an epic trilogy that transcends genre, author Philip Pullman invents a world parallel to ours, but with fantastic dimensions all its own. Pulse-pounding action is paired with gorgeous imagery to create a touching story in a world where demons and winged creatures live among ordinary humans, and an elusive entity called Dust has the power to unite the universes. The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass are magical tools used in the battle of good against evil in an imaginative yet utterly original reworking the Garden of Eden and the Fall of Man. (source from golden village)
The most wonderful and cunning "effect" in THE GOLDEN COMPASS is Lyra (Dakota Blue Richards). A 12-year-old girl surrounded by digitized creatures, spires, and sailing ships, Richards' Lyra is a singular delight, at once curious and stubborn, thoughtful and impetuous. Though she faces a series of daunting challenges that take her far from home, she remains brave, moral-minded, and smart -- a little girl much like the little girls who might be watching her on screen. That likeness in itself makes Lyra special.
The fact that Lyra lives in a world that's like ours but also different makes her situations both strange and familiar. Based on the first book in Philip Pullman's "HisDark Materials" trilogy, the movie opens in this alternate world's version of Oxford, where Lyra lives at Jordan College with her uncle, Lord Asriel (Daniel Craig). In Lyra's world, everyone has a "daemon," an animal embodiment of his or her personality and soul. While adult daemons are "settled" (Asriel's is a very dignified leopard), children's are in flux. Lyra's daemon, Pantalaimon (voiced by Freddie Highmore), shifts from ferret to bird to mouse, depending on mood or need. As children mature, their daemons become fixed -- just as their futures begin to seem set.
The initial trouble for Lyra is that her friends are disappearing before they can mature, apparently kidnapped by dark thuggish sorts called "Gobblers." She and her uncle worry about this phenomenon, which is enhanced by the threat posed by the Magisterium, a forbidding institution populated by men in black who believe in order and obedience rather than self-determination. "There will always be free thinkers and heretics," warns the Magisterial Emissary (Derek Jacobi) -- and he doesn't think that's a good thing.
He and other members of the Council see Lyra as a particular threat, believing she is the girl foretold in a prophecy about the Golden Compass, a complex device that can answer any question truthfully -- but can only be read instinctively by one person. And, indeed, when Lyra gets the Compass, she can read it, which puts her at risk from the Council's primary agent, Marisa Coulter (Nicole Kidman). Though Mrs. Coulter briefly distracts Lyra by taking her on a trip to the cold North, the child soon intuits her would-be mentor's sinister intent and escapes.
From here the film launches into multiple subplots -- not surprising, given that it's the first installment of a proposed trilogy. As Lyra seeks her missing best friend Roger (Ben Walker), as well as Asriel -- who has journeyed to the North in search of evidence of "other words" -- she assembles her own sort of "fellowship," including a band of Gyptians (led by Tom Courtenay), adventurous Texan Lee Scoresby (Sam Elliot), and flying witch Serafina Pekkala (Eva Green). But surely her most magnificent new friend is armored polar bear Iorek Byrnison (voiced by Ian McKellen), a onetime king now reduced to performing tricks at a dingy pub.
With the others at their backs, Lyra and Iorek head out into the snowy wilderness, determined to recover Lyra's friends and restore Iorek to his royal birthright -- a feat that eventually leads to battle with the current bear king (source http://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/Golden-Compass.html )
I personally think its a good movie not to be missed and look forward to a sequel. How little lyra outwits her enemies and how the story unfolds.
