Archbishop Chaput's review of "Golden Compass"

We posted this on our Web site yesterday, but in case you missed it... here's an excellent review of the film from Archbishop Chaput in Denver. He went to see it opening night. Here's one point I found particularly interesting:

Strangest of all — and in striking contrast to the Harry Potter and Narnia stories — is the absence of joy or any real laughter in the movie. The talented child actress who plays the film’s leading role is hobbled by a character that is uniformly unpleasant, rebellious, belligerent and humorless; the kind of young person described by one of my parent friends as needing a “long time-out.”