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Summary: Go with the Book!
Review: Compared to the book, this movie was nothing. I would definantly NOT reccomend this movie to you if you have not read the book in the first place. It will be blurry and hard for you to understand at some parts. Even if you think you understand it, you DONT (If you havent read the book). I had to read the whole book to my little sister just so she could understand the movie better. Thank goodness most people have read the book, or else this movie would get poor ratings.
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Summary: This is great!
Review: Chris Columbous is keeping it real and very true to the book in the 2nd movie. I am thrilled through what he did and even though the book was my least favorite of the 5 that are currently released the movie was so good! The DVD version has so many cool effects! You'd love it too. Then-12 Emma Watson, 14 year old Dan Radcliffe, and 15 year old Rupert Grint star in this and are great actors. They truly make this movie worthwhile! Since Chris is no longer directing them :( I don't know if the 3rd movie will be this good-so watch this and enjoy it while you can! Good if you read the books or even if you didn't!
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Summary: Terrible sequel to a great movie.
Review: The movie starts you out with an older Harry Potter. It's obvious that he is going through puberty because his voice is squeakin' and it makes him sound goofy at times. They are all going through puberty. Anyways, I think the film really falls short in terms of enjoyment.The new people offer no excitement. Sure, mabye that teacher guy was okay... Draco's father is incredibly boring and isn't really mysterious at all. He can't really act at all. From what it looks like, they hired him because he is somewhat resembalant of Draco but he isn't convincing enough to be enjoyable. The movie has it's action, but the first half is boring. The first 20 minutes of the movie have some nice special effects but overall they set the tone for a boring and prolonged movie. To wrap it up though, in the end... a movie will get a lot of praise if it is a popular book adaptation. Pass this one up. Sorry to those who are die-hard fans. I do not think this movie was very entertaining though.
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Summary: The book was better
Review: The movie is nothing like the book. The movie is a horrible joke. It wasn't funny if thats what their getting at. The book was actually enjoyable but the movie didn't follow the book that well. The acting was stupid. They were the worst actors ever. Don't buy or see this movie it will be a waste of your money. The special effects were also a bad joke.
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Summary: Darker, and better
Review: That's the first word that came to mind about this movie. Darker. But then, having read all the books, I expected it. The stories just get darker from here, which suits me just fine. This movie was fantastic. Dobby looks exactly how I pictured him while reading the book, and he's as annoying and loveable as the book version. And while it is dark, it's not scary, at least my kids didn't think so (they are 9 and 6), so I wouldn't worry too much about showing this to children, but I would wait until they were school age. Besides, they are reading these books to your kids in school anyways! Harry Potter, while certainly the most controversial literary figure since Tom Sawyer, plays out beautifully on the screen, and I myself can't wait until the next movie in June, which promises to be even Darker and more suspenseful than this one! Too bad I already know the ending.
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Summary: Yay for Harry Potter
Review: This is a great movie. I don't love Daniel Radcliffe as Harry cause I feel he acts to pompous, but its great
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Summary: Great if you need a nap
Review: This movie blows. Hermione is going to be smokin' when she gets past puberty, but other than thinking about her, this movie (and the first) is a total waste of time. The characters and ideas are directly ripped off from Neil Gaiman's Books of Magic character Timothy Hunter. The storytelling is SLOOOW, the dialog is a little ridiculous, and that little Weasley boy is the most annoying movie character this side of Jar-Jar and the Oracle. Props for getting kids to read and what not, but these ideas aren't that original. Hurry up and get this fad over with. Buy something that matters like the original Books of Magic series or the Family Guy DVD's.
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Summary: Harry Potter and his Friends Are Back!
Review: Durring Harry's adventures back at Hoggwarts School, he and his two best friends, Ron and Hermonie, learn to do their magic from the school teacher...they also discover the Chamber of Secrets. Once again, Harry Potter is played by Danial Radcliff, just like in the Sorceror's Stone before. The third movie of Harry Potter, will come to theatres one day.
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Summary: HOGWASH........?
Review: THERE'S just something slightly disturbing about seeing teens whizzing through the air on broomsticks ...... not quite fitting - something Pasolini might have invented..... then there's the "Magic", and the violence at school? Just what are we telling the younguns here? Not as if this is Lindsay Anderson's "IF" ... but close, close. Most of this is quite a tangle between seemingly good and evil, but for the audience? Who the heck knows? The effects are great - better than the first - but this one's overlong - especially the spider sequence - just goes on and on and on. The ghost in the lavatory is quite fun though .... brings quite a chill back from childhood... something about a deserted school lavatory and a cold seat .... Maggie Smith still sems to be one beat away from Jean Brodie [the very affected 1930 pronunciation], poor, brilliant, Richard Harris is just plain ill, Branagh is ... Liberace? Only Alan Rickman - semi-asexual - delivers well, and the youth playing Tom Riddle ... great find hope to see him back. Just wonder what this one's all about NOW something about Crowley starring Hopkins could be rather piquant .....
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Summary: Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets
Review: As far as sequels go this is excellent, I hope any subsequent Harry Potter movies will remain as good. And it's certainly deserving of 5 stars! Kenneth Branagh is wonderful as the new Defense Against The Dark Arts teacher Mr. Gilderoy Lockhart, who is incredibly self-absorbed. A celebrity among magic folk, as the author of many books about his adventures. And he was also nominated the man with the most charming smile, five times. The kids are visibly growing up, especially the boys, they're taller and their voices are deeper. The script and acting is wonderful. And the film is as touching as the first one. With some scary moments, involving giant spiders and a huge serpent. And many funny bits too, Kenneth Branagh has a knack for comedy. Before Harry can go to Hogwarts for his second year, a house elf shows up in his room and warns him not to go. He tries his best to sabotage Harry's return but, Harry does make it back thanks to Ron and the Weasleys. He stays with them at their cozy house. It doesn't take long for trouble to start, back at school. There are a series of attacks, accompanied by graffitie talking about how The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. Professor McGonegall relates the story behind the Chamber of Secrets, a hidden chamber somewhere at the school, built by one of the founders of the school, Salazar Slytherin, founder of the Slytherin house. He was a diapprover of mixed blood students learning the magic arts, so called "mud bloods" who have muggle parents. Hermione's parents are both muggles, and Draco Malfoy has a particular contempt for her. His father, Lucius, who is even nastier is introduced. The chamber supposedly harbours a monster, and now the monster is on the prowl. It attacks by petrifying it's victims, the first one being Mrs Norris, Mr. Glich's cat. The cure for petrification is a potion made of Mandrake root, and Mrs Sprout's, the Herbs teacher's batch of Mandrake hasn't matured yet. Harry must save the school, before the teachers declare it unsafe and send all the students home. And for Harry Hogwarts, is home.
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