Two Towers has some worthy competition

Rating: Null/10 (18 November 2002)

Warning: Minor Spoilers
This movie rocked! I knew that it had to be better than the first one, but this totally blew me away! The script was great, and the acting from the children and adults alike was so much better than it was last time. Not to mention the cool spiders, mandrakes, phoenix and the basilisk. My friends and I were screaming during the scene when Harry and Ron wander into the Dark Forest to meet with Aragog. That was truly scary. Knockturn Alley was just as creepy as I imagined it from the book. The new characters were just hysterical and frightening. Kenneth Branagh definitely Gilderoy Lockhart beyond well, and you could see how much fun he must have had playing that part. Same goes for Lucius. Gees Jason Isaacs was scary. Even I, being a villain freak that I am, cringed when he started beating Dobby with his cane. Dobby was, by the way, not as annoying as one might have pictured him to be. I guess the director was really trying to not make him that way after seeing what happened to George Lucas' reputation with Jar Jar Binks. And Christian Coulson as Tom Riddle did the best by portraying a sixteen-year-old as evil. However, there were a few things that the movie should have included: the scene where the Malfoys are selling things to Mr. Borgin and the Valentine's Day celebration. Those would have been icing on the cake. But when Lucius and Arthur are at Flourish and Blott's, they did not fight! My friends and I were literally yelling FIGHT FIGHT, but they did not! The movie also made Draco Malfoy seem more pitiful than bratty. Not only is he treated rotten by his dad, but Snape isn't that nice to him either. All in all, it was excellent. I give it 9.5/10. Cannot wait until Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblet of Fire.