Here's my opinion.

Rating: 6/10 (17 November 2002)

I'm sorry if this gets lengthy.
I read quite a few of these reviews before I went to see it opening night in the states, Friday the 15th. This is my first comment since I've joined IMDB, and I figured I'd make my first comment one for the Harry Potter movie.
I personally am a huge fan of the books. I think they're brilliantly written and are great books for children and adults. Although there are quite a few people who would disagree with me and say that they are bad for children and so on, I feel that it is better to have children reading than being on computers, playing video games and watching t.v. The books, in my opinion are all about imagination and letting yourself get lost in a magical world. Having an imagination is one of the best gifts one can have.
I'll start with the Harry Potter movie by mentioning the first one. I read all of the books before the first one, so of course I was really excited. When I saw the first one, I was very pleased to see all of the things I had read about be put into a Hollywood film. To my surprise, a lot of the things matched what I was seeing as I was reading the book, and that made the movie even better. I think the cast is amazing and unbelievable considering their age. Also, the children are fans, so it was cool to see them put into their acting what they thought their characters should be like. I'm sure we'll see a lot out of them in the future.
Obviously, as I've said above, I loved the first movie. Now I will state what I thought about the second movie. As soon as I walked out of the theater for the first movie, I said to my one friend that I couldn't wait for the second movie. I made my friend a fan of Harry Potter due to dragging her to the movie and lending her my books. Due to me looking forward to the 5th book and the second movie to come out, at times that's all I could think about because there were some things that I was eager to see and read.
As I walked into the theater for the second movie, I was really energetic and hyper because it was finally time to see this movie. I was so happy as the movie went on. Of course I noticed a few of the things that were different from the book, but when making a movie from a book, you HAVE to expect that. I loved the movie. It was awesome to me. The basilisk was one of the things that I was most anticipating. Continuing on, when I walked out of the theater, I almost thought that it was a movie that someone might not enjoy as much if they didn't read the book. There were some things in there that I could imagine someone being confused about, but that still doesn't mean the movie was bad.
So all in all, I loved the movie, and i think everyone should go see it. Can't wait for the third movie!!! Concluding this, I would like to say R.I.P. Richard Harris.