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Summary: HARRRY POTTER IS THE BOMB!!!
Review: I loved the movie, but that was in part to the books. If you haven't read the books, don't see the movie because you can't really get as in deapth with the characters in the movie like you can in the book. I noticed that in the movie they NEVER said hedwig's name! It really got me going......(i'm a harry potter fanatic!!!) I can't wait for the fifth book to come out, but i can wait for the DVD cuz of all the extra stuff!!!...
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Summary: A magical experience
Review: I am a huge Harry Potter fan and have read each of the books four times...so when I went to see the movie it was with a lot of expectations...and yes I do agree with a lot of the reviewers that the movie did not capture all the magic of the book and the axing of characters like Peeves the Poltergeist was dissapointing. But that being said, the sheer thrill of walking a while in Diagon Alley and seeing Hogwarts loom large and clapping and screaming through the Quidditch match was something that made every minute in that dark hall worth it.
Most people go to the movies expecting the film to live up to the book in every way. But that is rarely if ever going to happen. Harry Potter has excited the imagination of a generation and the images we conjur up in our mind's eye are ours alone...just because Chris Columbus could not translate a million fantasies exactly the way we want it does not make this a bad movie...we must remeber that JK Rowling was with him on this film every step of the way...and however much you find fault with it you are touched by the magic of Harry Potter and his motley band of friends...I would definitely reccomend the DVD...and let a little of the magic touch you too.
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Summary: A Wonderful Adaption From the Novel
Review: The movie Harry Potter and the Socerer's Stone was a wonderful movie for all ages. The director was able to make this movie a big hit while still remaining faithful to the author's vision.The cast in the movie did a very good jog of acting. This movie is definatly a movie for all ages! Honestly, at first when I heard about the Harry Potter book, I wasn't really interested in reading, thinking it was a book for kids. Once I saw the trailer for the movie, I knew it was a movie I had to see! After seeing the movie I got hooked on the books, and now it is up on my shelf of favorite books! This movie is not one that you will be bored of easily, it has it's shares of surprising turns. So if you haven't seen the movie, I highly recommend you to buy the DVD,one that will become many people's favorite movie's of all time.
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Summary: The absolute *BEST* movie of the year!!!
Review: I was a die-hard Harry fan even before the books became famous, and I think I can boast that I know them inside-out. When the movie came out, I was excited and a little skeptical. There is no shred of skepticism left in me after having seen it four times(and working on my fifth!). At the moment, it's my favorite movie. ^_^I think Chris Colombus' biggest accomplishment in it was the casting. Each actor/actress was absolutely superb. Richard Harris was a magnificent Dumbledore(not quite as twinkly as I'd hoped, but magnificent nonetheless), especially in the end. Rupert Grint was an adorable Ron, and was very good with the humor. Alan Rickman was a wonderfully sinister Professor Snape, making his voice just right. Maggie Lawson was a rightfully severe Professor McGonagall, right down to the condescending looks. And Daniel Radcliffe...I just can't praise his performance enough. You could tell with every word he said that he loves his character dearly, and he got that air of deprivated-yet-brave air just perfectly. I cried twice at how heart-breakingly sweet he was. He was the *perfect* Harry. The special effects were a series of wonders. The Quidditch match was more than anyone could've dreamed of, the battle with Voldemort was creepy and ethereal, and the Chess Game was edge-of-your-seat exciting. It was a fan's dream to see that magical world alive in front of you. The over-all effect was astounding. Your heart is filled to bursting when the last strain of music fades, and I personally was a little woozy when I left the theatre. It was an amazing experience. As my mom said(she loved it, too), Chris Colombus' only flaw was letting it end.
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Summary: Harry potter
Review: It seems really great. The movie was excellent
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Summary: Unimaginative, un-magical mess
Review: This is supposed to be a review of Harry Potter, but I feel like talking about two previews I saw before Harry Potter more than Harry Potter itself: the newest Lord of the Rings and Star Wars: Episode II trailers, which were amazing and contained more originality, imagination, and pure excitement in them than HP did in its entire 2 hour-30 minute running time. HP proves that popularity (2nd or 3rd highest international gross so far) does not always equal quality. The film is about a boy, Harry Potter, who is raised by brutal and uncaring foster parents in a cupboard storage area under the stairs of their house (no, I'm being serious). One day he receives an invitation to Hogwarts, a school for training wizards, and Harry sets off to begin his career as a wizard in training. On the way, he discovers information about the death of his natural parents and is caught up in a plot to get the eponymous sorceror's stone. I appreciate how HP tries to contain a somewhat complex plot, complete with a mystery and history. It's very ambitious for a kid's film, but it still fails to succeed in this area. The first 15 minutes - showing Harry in his life with his foster parents - are nothing short of unbearable; Harry's situation and his mean parents are meant to evoke sympathy for his character and provide pathos, but it all ends up playing out as a comedy with the parents not being threatening at all but just bumbling fools. His treatment does not end up accomplishing what it should - making us genuinely desire that Harry go to Hogwarts and escape this undeserved life - but rather only serves as a kind of weird, humorous mess, and the only reason we are happy Harry has gotten into Hogwarts is because it means this segment of the film is finally over. On the journey through the film we do encounter some nice visuals, the direction here being at its strongest: the Dickensian detail of Diagon Alley, the interior of Hogwarts with its morphing paintings, shifting stairs, transparent ceiling, and so on. However, Chris Colombus is not an Oscar tier director, to put it lightly, and one can only sigh to imagine how someone capable like Spielberg or even Tim Burton would have brought the film to more life. The effects also hamper the film a lot (except the invisibility cloak, which is quite impressive in a simple way) - the troll and three-headed dog look awful, as does a lot of the Quidditch match, and the centaur looks like a videogame character on par with the awful job they did with the Scorpion King at the end of Mummy Returns. The acting is fine. Radcliffe is good because he's good at being shy and understated, which is what his character is like. Alan Rickman is devilishly entertaining and drips his lines with venom. The other kids are okay, sometimes bordering on annoying. The Quidditch match is a much ballyhooed action piece in the film, and it turns out to be pretty mediocre. There is great speed and velocity in it, to be sure; but the CG people on broomsticks turn out to be quite fake looking when the film decides to speed their frame rate up to 10 times their previous speed in the blink of a second, in the hopes that we won't notice and will just think it's their lightning reflexes. The game itself never gets very interesting because the rules are various and confusing, and are only explained in a brief two minute segment beforehand. I find myself asking more questions about how the game is supposed to be played and why people aren't just chasing after that damn golden ball thing instead of being able to "enjoy" the match. I mentioned the LOTR and SW trailers that played before this, and I must say I am glad these other fantasy/sci-fi films are coming/have come out relatively soon after HP, because hopefully people will realize just how much HP "borrows" ideas and elements from them, especially LOTR. Potter, to be completely honest, just isn't a very imaginative or creative film: the wizards are the typical long-bearded type (Richard Harris' Dumbledor looks like a carbon copy of Gandalf from LOTR), the witches are the typical broomstick-wielding, black pointy hat-wearing type, the goblins look like a cross between Yoda and (again) the goblins we will see in LOTR, the spells and magic we see in the film aren't anything new or interesting, there aren't any truly exciting action sequences, and there are plot holes galore: Why does Snape hate Harry? Can't Dumbledor come up with a better spell to protect the sorceror's stone? What did Voldemort have against Harry's parents in the first place? I don't want to waste much more time talking about this film. Honestly, why has this film been so popular? Even if we ignore the obvious "inspirations" it has taken from other sources and look at it for its "own merits," we still end up with a cheesy, kiddie fantasy flick with clichéd and typical fantasy wizard/witch figures, cutesy kid characters that spout cheesy comic relief one-liners like "wicked!" or "she really needs to straighten out her priorities," fake special effects, an action sequence played up to be the central event in the film that is bogged down by poor CG and confusing rules, a running time that is too long, subplots that take the film off on a tangent but end up contributing nothing to the central "story" , a very silly ending, and the fact that we still come away from the film knowing almost nothing about wizardry. But what do I know? 600 million dollars can't be wrong. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to finish watching the special features for Phantom Menace and begin getting hyped up for Episode II, because unlike Harry Potter, Star Wars deserves its popularity.
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Summary: Not Another Based On a Book Movie!
Review: This movie was great for the kids, and it whetted an appetite to see some of J.K. Rowling's magic in "the works," but as far as it being better than the books, that couldn't be farther from the truth. I think it would be better off to leave Harry Potter to the imagination, but still... it was kind of cool to see the spells and enchantments of the stories. Take it or leave it.
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Summary: Good but important details left out.
Review: I thought that the movie itself was in fact quite enjoyable but they left out a few scenes and some important details. Being as big of a Harry Potter fan as I am, I was surprised to find that they even changed the way he looked in the movie. In the books it said Harry had jet black hair and green eyes. Well in the movie they gave him dark brown hair and blue eyes. It made me mad to find they changed the main character. But other than that and the fact that they left a few scenes out it was a spectacular movie. I suggest all who love movies to go see this one.It honestly was one of the best movies I've seen in awhile that I've been able to forget the outside world and enjoy what i was seeing. To all that haven't seen this I suggest you do.
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Summary: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Review: This movie, I might say, is not as good as I've expected it to be. Number one, whenever you read a story, a certain image appears in your brain. You imagine and visualize what's going on and sometimes only you can like it! What on Earth do I mean? Ok, i'll tell you. When people read books, they visualize what's happening in the story. Only their visualization is good for themselves. But if you see what another person imagines, you'll mostly hate it! When I read the first novel, I really expected things to be better. I expected the Dursleys family look like what I wanted them to look like. But if I see someone else's image of the Dursleys and the Hogwarts school, i'll be very disapointed on how stupid or pathetic the scenery is. Number two, events take place the same area. When I thought of it first, I knew that every scene should be snapped shot in a different place. But I have seen a certain area snapped shot one million times. It is very obvious that someone might get bored very quickly of this. Number three, Scenes take place too quickly. This story is long, every scene must have a long amount of time but instead, the director needs to divide 1 hour and 30 minutes in 2 minutes per scene. The story will go quite fast and the details will not be able to be added on. Some details are quite as important as you might they are. Number four, Once you're half way through the story, you'll be able to know everything. Once the scene takes place in the third floor corridor near the forbiddon area, you will know that from every now and then, all three Harry, Ron and Hermoine will obviously think of plans of going inside the forbiddon area. Number five, it is obvious that in many movies, the good and poor guy becomes evil and the evil and mean guy turns out to become friendly (example, snape and quirrell). That might sum up everything I know about this movie.
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Summary: HArry Potter the movie- a childs point of view
Review: As a 12 year old girl I am one out of millons of big fans of the harry potter series. When the movie came out alot of children didn't want to see it, i was not one of them! I jumped at the chance to see my favorite book come to life on screen. i thought that this was an amazing chance. And I was right. This movie is great. It gives you a different point of veiw on how the characters look and it also gets parents to understand what their kids go gaga on all the time. I am glad to say that my dad has finally seen it and i was the one who took him. It was the fifth time for me. I advise people to get it because it is agreat movie for the family and because this is coming from one of the biggest fans that you will ever meet.
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