TOTALLY RADICAL

Rating: 10/10 (18 November 2002)

First I would like to say that I felt the "Chamber of Secrets" was so much better than I had expected it to be. If you haven't seen the movie yet, be warned. There are going to be some spoilers.
I thought the opening was good. It allowed one to see a little of Harry's life with the pics of his mom and dad, and his friends, Ron and Hermione. It just shows one how much Harry misses his friends at Hogwarts. Then Dobby warns us about some "great danger." After about an hour of exploration and detective work, we are taken the the Chamber of Secrets. Tom Riddle is revealed as the 16 year-old Lord Voldomort, sends a Basilisk to kill Harry, but his bravery defeats his soon to be enemy. The day is saved, and we once again wait in agony until the "Prisonor of Azkaban" comes out in 2004.
Now for my thoughts on the direction of the film. I felt Daniel, Rupert, and Emma did an absolute terrific job as Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Kenneth Branagh was the only man I know who could have played Gilderoy Lockhart as I saw him. Jason Isaacs also did a wonderful job playing the always pleasant (wink, wink) Lucious Malfoy. I had watched The Patriot, and thought that he did a really good job playing a bad guy, and when I came to this website to see who else was added to the cast, I saw his name and was delighted with joy.
Everything was as I had imagined it from the book. I was a little dissapointed that we weren't directly introduced to Professor Dippet, and the fact that we never got a chance to know that Ginny Weasley, but that's just me. I really didn't think about those parts of the book until I started thinking back on the book and the film.
As I said, it'll be a long, rough two years until we can see the next book in live action, but I think that watching the DVD's and reading the books might keep me occupied until then.