Still my favorite of the franchise

Rating: 10/10 (14 February 2010)

Let me just get this out of the way, I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!! I love a lot of the Harry Potter films, but not only is this one my favorite, it's in my top 3 favorite films. Sometimes it's number 1, but I always juggle it along with Jurassic Park and Empire Strikes Back. To put it simply, everything is right with this movie.
Unlike the first film that made a failthful adabtation, but wasn't dark enough. COS gave us one of the best book to film adabtations, along with making it just as dark as the movies that followed. The acting is much better this time around, and the special effects are incredibly well done. Some may say they look dated, I don't think so, they look just as real to me now as back when I first saw it in 2002, (well OK, maybe that snake during Dueling club looked kind of cheap, but still.) The book isn't my favorite of the series, but the movie gets all the good stuff, while taking out a few things I don't like, such as that Valentines Day thing, and not wasting time when Hagrid is taken to Azkaban and going straight into the forrest. Although it would have been cool to see that Deathday party.
Overall, it's not the best movie of all time, but I still Love it.