Leaves you with about as much to think about as a trip to the circus.

Rating: 6/10 (4 December 2002)

A typically female, airy-fairy story - all window decoration and no real edge or power to it. Yes, if I was 8 or 9, I'd have loved this film. But I'm an adult who loves films like Toy Story, The Wizard Of Oz, The Grinch... because these films actually give you something to chew on.
The Harry Potter stories are a wash of pastel-shaded, girly frills (and thrills); totally unscary and unmoving.
And the stories are so badly constructed. I thought that if a decent screenwriter got hold of the HP series, he could fashion a decent structure from the amateurish rubbish produced by Rowling.
But look at the cash come in.
Two bits of British nonsense topping the US charts. Ha! (Let's face it - Bond movies died about two weeks into the preproduction of Moonraker - or before)