Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone/Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets/Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (3-Pack Full Screen Edition)

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Summary: Don't Miss Any Harry Potter Films
Review: Although the books are much more imaginative, the Harry Potter films are a treat. Beautifully filmed in old creepy English schools, playfully acted by a host of British veteran stars like Maggie Smith and other BBC movie regulars, this film collection is delightful to watch with the family. You don't have to be 13 to enjoy it.

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Summary: Scenes have been omitted
Review: I truly love the Harry Potter series. My wife and I devoured the first five books and we take a day off from work to see the movies on opening day. For Christmas, my wife got me the "First 3 years" DVD box set. As we were watching each movie, but especially the third, we kept getting the feeling that something was missing. At first I thought I was losing my mind, but, from some clues in the Prisoner of Azkaban, we figured out that certain scenes- some particularly pivotal- have been left off the box set. Never mind the cardboard vs. plastic casing, leaving scenes out from the theatrical run is the antithesis of a DVD release where, allegedly, more scenes should be added.

The omitted scenes I know for certain are:

1. Sir Nicholas's party. In the DVD, there is a scene of ghostly knights charging through The Great Hall, but with no follow-up scene(s) to explain this action. What should come next, which was part of the theatrical release but was deleted for this box set, was a scene showing the knights entering Sir Nicholas's death-day party. Then, there are more scenes of Harry, Ron, and Hermione at the party, the only "mortals" to attend. They are baffled by some of the strange food and depressed by the atmosphere, so they decide to leave. Sir Nicholas thanks them personally for coming on their way out. I can distinctly see in my mind's eye John Cleese making some kind of feeble toast and then later on dejectedly bidding farwell to the Hogwarts kids.

2. There are some black and white flashback scenes of Harry's parents (at least his dad, from what I recall) poking fun at an obviously loner-type Snape, during their days as students at Hogwarts. This scene explains much of the animosity Snape has for Harry. At least one other main character (Sirius Black, I think, or maybe Lupin) appears in these flashback scenes. Again, I vividly remember the black and white look of these scenes, and the students (Harry's parents, etc.) sitting beneath a tree. These scenes are so crucial! Why would the filmmakers omit them?!

I'm really disappointed in the choice to omit these scenes. While the Sir Nicholas scenes aren't integral to the plot, it doesn't make sense to leave them off the DVD box set. And certainly, cutting the flashback scenes of Harry's parents on the DVD box set is just inexcusable, particularly considering the extra freedoms available with DVD releases.

What were they thinking?

Has anyone else noticed this? Please let me know in your review. Thanks so much.

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Summary: Widescreen or Fullscreen??
Review: I understand that the box set happens to have two cardboard cases( years 1 and 2) and one plastic case (year 3).

My question is if it's the "WIDESCREEN" set why is year three the "fullscreen" version? Was it mispackaged? Has anyone else encountered this problem?


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Summary: Not a good value
Review: I was very disappointed in this boxed set. The movies, of course, are great but this boxed set was a big rip off. The only reason I didn't return it was because I promised someone my original copies of the first two movies. I already own the first two Harry Potter movies in their beautiful cardboard slipcovers. I was expecting this boxed set to have some continuity. Instead all they did was put the third movie (in a plastic case!) in a fancy box with the first two movies in their original (cardboard!) packaging. If you already own the first two movies do not waste your money buying this set. Just buy the third movie. You can always find your own box to put them in. If you want a boxed set, wait five or six years until all of the movies are released and buy it then. Maybe the packaging will be better. Yes Wolf, the third movie is in a plastic slip case not the nicer cardboard slipcase.

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Summary: Really Cool!
Review: I, like anyone else who watches these movies, am a huge Harry Potter. I love all the books (currently reading Book #5) and the movies are fairly good, but we all know you can never beat the book.
Movie #1 - alright. I'd give it 4/5 stars. i enjoyed it but the acting wasn't all that great, but we're talking about 11 year olds, so its not entirely their fault.
overall really good.
Movie #2 - The best of the 3 movies so far. Acting has greatly improved. my family really loved the character, Dobby, and we really enjoyed the Qudditch scene. A lot more dramatic that the book. Excellecent movie. 5/5 stars
Movie #3 - Not bad. Better than the first movie, but noticeably shorter than the previous movies. Only about 2 hours while the other movies were about 2 and a half hours. Still enjoyable. 4/5
Great movies, so far. Hopefully "the goblet of fire" and "the order of the pheonix" will not be as short as the 3rd movie. I don't think you can take 730 pages and jam them into only 2 hours. Can't wait for those movies

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Summary: BAD CASE FOR MOVIES 1 & 2
Review: Ok I am 25 and I admit a huge Harry Potter Fan. Each movie is in its own package just like if you had bought them seperately. The year 3 is in a plastic case unlike the first 2 which were in cardboard. I did buy this box set mostly due to my year 1 and 2 were given to my 10 year old brother so I needed to buy them again. The Navy Exchange is horribly small here and I actually got the collection before my store even had them in. Plus it puts all the movies into 1 nice collection. Being that this is the first box set to be offered and knowing that more movies are coming I am thinking that years 4-6 will have a box set of their own untill they are put together. But being as the Star Wars movies never had a whole collection that is just my assumption. The movies are getting better and better. I only recommend buying this if 1> you are a collector or 2>like me don't have the first two for 1 reason or another.

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Summary: DVD Case, Cardboard or Plastic.
Review: Please,could someone tell me if in this box set,if all 3 movies are in a separate Plastic DVD Cases just like the third movie.

Or is it like the first two movies,Cardboard Case.

I would appreciate a reply,thank you in advance.

I gave it 5 stars,only concerning the movies themselves.



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Summary: A Great Gift For Anyone
Review: This six disk, three movie DVD set is aewsome. With all three movies and there second disks with all the bonus features combined with the fact that it's widescreen make this a great gift.

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Summary: Harry Potter years 1 to 3.
Review: When I heard about the first Harry Potter film I tried for so long to avoid it, I don't know why I did but I thought that it was just another irratating kids movie but this time with british actors then I thought great this was probably going to be a mess. It wasn't untill a friend of mine forced me to watch it and when I did I was blown away by how fantastic the movie was, I just had to buy the dvd along with the sequal at the time which was even better. Now I have not read the books because I'm not that intrested but what I think is great about these films is that there not just for kids but adults can also enjoy or any person of any age and the young actors who played Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) and Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) could have been better but they do improve during the sequal Chamber of secrets, here is a small summary of all three films:-

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is the film that introduces us to the world of Harry Potter who is dropped of at his Uncles house when he was an infant since both his parents were killed by what seems like an evil wizard but when he grows up at the age of 10 I think I don't remember he soon discovers that he has some magic powers and then realises that he's not an ordinary kid. Then Hagrid played by Robbie Coltrane who is my favorite character in the Harry Potter films takes Harry away from his awful relatives and introduces him to his new school Hogwarts magical school of wizadry. The director Chris Columbus did a great job with bringing this great story to life with amazing special effects and great sets, it also has great brittish actors like Maggie Smith, Richard Harris and Alan Rickman as proffesor Snape.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of secrets was better than the first because Harry gets to do alot more like magic spells and stuff like that and Kenneth Branagh was hilarious as the celebrity wizard who turns out to be a coward, I also liked Lucius Malfoy as Harry's nemesis was great. Harry this time has to solve a murder mystery that has happened years ago and he gets to battle some giant spiders and snakes.

Harry Potter and the prisnor of Azkaban is a more darker film than the previous two films. Harry's life might be in danger as Sirius Black played by Gary Oldman has broken out of prison and he is after Harry Potter. Harry soon practices some new magic tricks with the defense against the dark arts teacher? or something like that. Emma Watson this time has a bigger role as Hermione uses a special magic trick that can send her back in time just a few days to help Harry. The actors are a bit older and seem to be more comfortable with there roles not because I think that they were bad its just that they seem to have improved, overall I think that the films were all great and all three have become my favorite films of all time, thats all I have to say because I don't want to sound like a Harry Potter nerd.