Another well executed children's fantasy, livelier and with a better script than the first.

Rating: Null/10 (14 April 2003)

A good children's fantasy is a difficult feat, and luckily the team putting together the Harry Potter movies is sticking to the formula and spending what it takes to deliver the stories as imaginatively as the current state of special effects arts can deliver. Daniel Radcliffe capably carries the pictures in the lead and was well cast. These Harry Potter things lack wit and inventiveness when compared to classic children's fantasy movies like THE WIZARD OF OZ, MARY POPPINS, WILLY WONKA and most of the Ray Harryhausen pictures, but they're still very nice efforts in a most difficult of genres. Rises high above the usual crap that's currently being hawked to the kiddie crowd.