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Summary: A nice movie.......for little kids
Review: Harry Potter was and still is one of my favorite books. When the movie came out I was exstatic! Harry Potter on a big screan. Then the movie came out. There I was in line at the huge theater with all of my friends. We got to the movie and sat down waiting for the amazing movie to come. That never came. I was expecting something more like Lord of the Rings, or Star Wars, not a little kids movie. After the first scene I almost fell asleep. One of my friends poked me when Daniel Radcliff (Harry) came on for the first time. I looked up expecting some super hot guy! Boy was i suprised when I saw a "little kid" in dorky glass' and SWEATERS on stage. I understood the glass' but the sweater bugged me through out the movie. In the book you got the impreasions that the kids wore robes, like you would imangine most wizards and whiches to wear. The uniforms looked like prep school uniforms with ties and knee socks. Maybe it's like that in England, but I don't think so. My favorite character was Malfoy. OK I go for the bad boys, but he was a great actor and was hilarous. I couldn't wait for the duel between Harry and Malfoy. But they never even talked about that. also Hermione wasn't that bratty at all. I would have liked her as a freind. She never did anything wrong. Ron was very loveable and funny, but should have had more lines. AND WHERE DID THE ROMANTIC PART COME IN AT THE END?? Harrys supposed to like Cho Chang....not Hermione. That was a big mistake. Also there wasn't any action. I have watched the movie twice and I know everything that was and is going to happen. They made it so predictable. Sorry I may be a snotty fashion obsessed teen, but I was expecting a lot more from this movie.
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Summary: Good adaptation, but not good enough
Review: This movie is a good film if you've either never read the Harry Potter books or have only read them once. But for someone like me whose read the first book at least 10 times, it's a bit of a disappointment. There are so many scenes that are left completly unexplained in the movie that would not have taken any longer to explain. The transitions from one part to the next are very crisp and dry. I was hoping that this 2 disc dvd would include all the scenes that were cut from the movie due to it's length. However, once you find the deleted scenes, there's not much special about them. There's parts that are explained without the questions being asked. The characters do play the parts well, and the essence is there, but the film just doesn't flow. Spend your money on tickets to The Chamber of Secrets instead.
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Summary: Something great, something mediocre, something terrible
Review: Many of the extra features are actually a lot of fun, especially the multilingual examples and the deleted scenes. However, a lot of them are a bit overblown, including the narrated tour of (part of) Hogwarts and the character bios. The rest are... simply terrible, the narration in the menus is at first irritating but over time becomes completely hateful, deleted scenes shouldn't be hidden like an Easter Egg in King's Quest IV and good features should be behind time wasting games.Regardless of those problems, the widescreen version is still the best way to watch the movie, since this movie is really only worthwhile as a visual aid to the books, since as a movie it often veers towards incoherence and can barely stand without the source material (unlike the movie version of Chamber of Secrets which is completely incoherent and totally reliant on knowledge of the source material). All that aside, it *is* still beautifully realized.
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Summary: This Century's Peter Pan
Review: "Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone," or as I understand it's released in Great Britain as "HP & the Philosopher's Stone," is a great DVD. Most critics feel if there's a fault to the film, it's that it's TOO faithful to the book. It'd been some time since I'd read the book when I viewed the film. I kept saying, "Oh, I remember that!" Chris Columbus has done an excellent job bringing this magical world to screen. I think Harry Potter, films included, will become as a part of our culture as Peter Pan. The actors are each wonderful in the movie, although action rather than character development is the strength. Daniel Radcliffe does a great job showing the innocence and bravery of Harry. Rupert Grint is a hoot as Ron. Richard Harris as Albus Dumbledore gives such a calm wisdom to the part. Maggie Smith as McGonagall is as wonderful as she was in "Gosford Park." Robbie Coltrane who played a great buddy to Johnny Depp in "From Hell" does a great job as the half-giant Hagrid. Alan Rickman perfected screen villany in "Die Hard" and "Robin Hood"; so we love to hate his wonderful sneer. He also performed the great service of seeing Sean Biggerstaff who plays the Quidditch team's head Oliver Wood in a stage play, giving him his first screen break in "The Winter's Guest." Biggerstaff was my favorite of the supporting actors. Fiona Shaw is delightful as the spiteful Aunt Petunia. Tom Felton has come a long way since appearing with Jodie Foster in "Anna & the King" to his role as the hateful Draco Malfoy. John Hurt as Mr. Ollivander the wand salesman does a nice cameo too. The effects in the film are excellent. We really believe in Harry's invisibility cloak. It's such a hoot to see him at night in the restricted section of the library with his hand holding a lantern poking out from under the cloak, as if the hand wouldn't give him away! The three-headed dog, the plant that smothers and the flying keys are all marvelous effects. The DVD version's second disc takes you on an interesting tour of Hogwarts. Now, I have to go back and find those deleted scenes! Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone is thoroughly entertaining. Relax & have fun!
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Summary: Get ready Muggle world!
Review: This is one of my favorite movies! I love the book series of Harry Potter. The special effects are so lifelike! I was in awe at how great of a production this was! The cast is perfect, the effects are mind blowing! I must say, it is kind of annoying with the DVD to have to do all of the things to get to the extra features, but that's OK. This is a great movie for all ages, a magical world that we all dream about! I only wish that i could be a wizard and go to Diagon Alley, Hogwarts, and ride that train! This is a great movie for anyone, you'll really enjoy it. I reccomend this movie to anyone. Enjoy! Oh yeah, hold on... you should read the books before you see the movies, because the movies just kind of ruin the books (the ending is revealed and so on). The books are so much better, J.K. Rowling is such a talented author. You must buy the books before anything. ENJOY!
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Summary: Doesn't match the book but still up there.
Review: The scorcerers stone has been stolen! that's what the book said and that's what this movie said. I really didn't actually enjoy this movie but it was still quite entertaining. It is a fantasy about a boy wizard who goes to school to learn magic. Based on Rowlings bestselling books Harry potter's first adventure reaches sky high. When I had read the book but hadn't seen the movie I didn't know how Warner bothers were going to create an actual Quiddich match but they still did it with prestige effort. the movie had no romanical aspects and the comedy was escruciatingly dry. I think Warner bros. should have put even more effort into the acting in the movie but the special effects were pleasing. Luxembugh ratings believes this movie deserves three stars for the poor acting but all other flaws are miniscule.
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Summary: OH MY GOODNESS!!
Review: This is so awsome one of the best adventure/ Fantasy movies ever!! this is great i recomend it
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Summary: Great movie.......
Review: Wow, I loved this movie. It was funny and entertaining. Ron was funny and well casted. He was perfect for the role and made the movie a lot better. Hermione was also perfectally casted. Malfoy too. The malice was so....there. The movie had great action, funny moments and some sad scenes. Harry Potter, a movie for all ages from 10-100! I recomend this movie to anyone who liked the book and to people who didn't.
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Summary: By the book...too much by the book
Review: Harry Potter is fun. Harry Potter is magical. Harry Potter is not profound. Unlike classics of children's literature, the Harry Potter books show us what happens to Harry, but we never get to know who Harry is. The books read like screenplays, one event after another. Things happen to Harry, but we never get to climb inside Harry's head and find out what he thinks about them. All we see is what he does. The movie is just as surface-level. The characters lack development, but it is a lot of fun to watch. Sure it's fun, but it's not particularly inspiring.
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Summary: Mediocre
Review: This movie is perfect for most Harry Potter fans, who were delightled to see their visions of Hogwarts and the Magical World come to life on the big screen. However, for me, this movie was more of an exercise in frustration than anything else, as I beleive the adaption from the book is not as faithful as it could be (see Lord of the Rings for an incredibly faithful book-to-movie transition.)
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