Okay...nothing great...

Rating: Null/10 (15 November 2002)

This makes me wonder what all the fuss is about, I have only read the first book, the first movie was less then steller. Okay, what Rowling did to create Harry Potter, take Scooby Doo or Nacy Drew for that matter, some bad guys from Mythology and other creatures that have been done a million times before and plug it into a semi-gothic wizard school and you have Harry Potter. The storyline is beyond predictable, well it is ment for children. The first 30 minutes are great, but then after that it drags, on and on and on and on and on. Seemingly for no real reason, this is the type of stuff that would work as a saturday morning cartoon. Harry is a BORING main character, Ron is okay, Hermonie (or however you spell her name) is just down right annoying. But there is not one orignal idea in this movie, not one, yah see most fantasy novels have at least one thing unique to it, (LOTR has Hobbits, InuYasha has well InuYasha , and Spirited Away had Aku and a Spirit Bath house with many crazy looking creatures) What does Harry Potter have? A bunch of characters you have seen time and time again in hundreds of other things. Although cute, cut it down about one hour and it might be worth watching. The storyline is empty without depth or a focused end, it just plods along. The storyline is also WAY to dark for some younger children and to plotless for many adults.
Bottomline: Wait for $1 seat or better video, it's not worth it.