Good, but not as good as the first one...

Rating: Null/10 (15 April 2003)

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I'm not sure but I liked the first movie better than the second. I thought the second was just a bit too heavily plotted and lacked the wide open and free fun adventure feel of the first.
Also, I know Hermione got petrified in the book but having one of your major characters basically out of the picture for the last 1/3 of the film really just killed the whole thing for me. It was silly, the main female character just vanishes for the last part of the film. I thought it was especially bad that she wasn't in the final climactic scenes.
I know that's how it happened in the books, I read them. But I think they should have asked JK Rowling for permission to change this for the movie, at least for the final scene. Have it that there was enough new mandrake potion to cure her so she could join them in the Chamber of Secrets. She could have even got trapped behind the rocks with Ron so not changing the final confrontation between Harry and Voldelmort.
I'm not sure how it'll play out in theaters with the main crook being Voldelmort in every single story. It works fine in books, but I already have heard friends and family saying that it was kind of boring for Harry to fight Voldelmort again. Many people that say this haven't read the books so they don't know that all seven books will be about Harry's ongoing battle with the evil sorcerer.
I think the Harry Potter books are great but I wonder if they might not need some serious editing to transfer them to the big screen. After all, the two mediums are completley different and what works in one will not necessarily work in the other.