Goofs for
The Golden Compass (2007) More at IMDbPro »

• Revealing mistakes: When Iorek, with Lyra atop of him, is bounding across an arctic plane, the CGI breaks down for a second, for his left hind leg flickers as he runs.
  
  
• Continuity: Right before Lord Asriel is captured, he slides over a cliff of ice. In the first shot of him when he reaches the bottom, he has a large scrape on one side of his face, but in the next and following scenes it is gone.
  
  
• Continuity: During the final battle scene, there are a bunch of children attacking a guard. Lyra jumps on his back and then Serafina Pekkala shoots an arrow into the guard while Lyra is still on him. When he falls to the ground the arrow is protruding from his back with Lyra unharmed (01:37:00).
  
  

• Continuity: The first shot of Lyra in the Experimental Station is a reverse angle of her walking through a doorway with double doors. When the shot changes to the front the doors are closed.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Mrs. Coulter is about to deploy the small robotic bugs to seek out Lyra, she says, "They'll seek her out like bees to honey." Bees do not seek out honey, they seek out the nectar and pollen to make honey.
  
  
• Continuity: On his way to Bolvangar with Lyra, Iorek's armor disappears and he has no place to store it. Later he shows up in the armor in the final battle.
  
  

• Factual errors: SPOILER: As Iorek Byrnison kills the guard grabbing Lyra during the escape from the Magisterium's research station fight scene, we see the guard's daemon explode before hearing his scream. In the world the movie is set in, this is impossible because a person's daemon would exist until their death, after which a person would be unable to produce a noise.
  
  

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