There is just too much material here, and not enough scope to compensate, no matter how much the storytellers try to compensate with excess exposition that eventually devolves into aimless ramblings which only occasionally punctuated by kicks of danger and action, and prove to be too repetitious to be consistently engaging. I would be more willing to forgive this excessiveness if most of the material wasn't so familiar, because even though this film is refreshing in a lot of ways, it's more unique in concept, and such potential for uniqueness makes it easier to detect conventions, which are plentiful, drawing formulaic character types and plotting elements that build a predictable path, along which storytelling drags. Really, the film just can't decide if it wants to be a family fluff piece of a fantasy flick or a slightly edgy, intellectual high fantasy drama, as it goes bloated with tones and layers that are too dynamic to be consistent, as well as too excessive for their own good, bloating the narrative as too busy, if not convoluted. I think the budget and cliffhanger feel that will never be justified by a sequel are enough evidence of overambition here, but hey, I don't mind, because this is indeed a decent film, just not quite what it wants to be, partly because everyone in this film is too busy to come back for a sequel, and largely because of some serious flaws.Īlmost surprisingly, this film gets kind of cheesy, featuring some dialogue and humor that are hokey in something of a kiddy way, and even tainting its mythology with somewhat, as Korey Coleman of put it, "dorky" elements that seem to further kiddy things up.
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They may as well pull a cute "coincidence" like that if they're going to have those two actors around in this cast full of British stars that Chris Weitz ostensibly assembled because he's so ambitious about breaking away from the "American Pie" image with his first film out of the shadow of his brother that he wants to make this thing as British as possible. talking polar bears were actually in Philip Pullman's original book, and also because the filmmakers felt like messing with us, because as if it's not hard enough to keep from getting Ian McKellen and Ian McShane confused, they go ahead and collaborate in the form of polar bears. Oh, they probably just put them in because. No, this is still too anti-Christian to be like the overtly pro-Christian "Narnia" series, so much so that they seem to be making fun of Republicans (I don't know if they're poking fun at Ann Coulter, but I'm starting to get a little more confident that I'm the only non-religious Conservative in America), no matter how much they try to evoke thoughts of Aslan the lion god with these awesome, anthropomorphic polar bears. Wow, in a discussion regarding this film, I found a way to address Ann Coulter, so this probably isn't as exciting as the "Chronicles of Narnia" rip-off I was expecting it to be, although it does feel like a rip-off of a rip-off. Shoot, forget organized religion, this might be a deconstruction of the conservative republican party, because I'm not entirely confident that they're not trying to say something when they name the evil, female political figure in this film Mrs. or almost two hours of mostly exposition and allegorical deconstructions of organized religion. We're talking about a futuristic world, spirit animals, warrior polar bears, James Bond as an adventurous college professor (British Indy!) and Sam Elliott as a cowboy aeronaut, so this is either going to be an awesome definitive fantasy epic.
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