More of the same adventures

Rating: 8/10 (24 November 2002)

These movies might well be turning me into a Harry Potter fan. I still haven't so much as touched any of the books, but I watched this movie as intensely as I did the previous one.
In the previous movie, all Harry Potter ever DID was be famous because he was the only one to survive an encounter with Voldemort. In this movie, he slowly begins to earn his role as main hero of the story. Still, he has hardly done anything extraordinary yet.
If this movie was something, it certainly was fast-paced. The flying car scenes and the Quidditch match almost made me dizzy. (Having to sit in the front row might have had something to do with it.) I was able to follow most of the plot, but after I got home after the movie, I forgot quite much of what it was all about. All I felt was a feeling of having gone over something fast-paced.
As ever, the special effects were well done, but at this age, they were hardly spectacular. There was ONE exception: the scene in the Forbidden Forest with all the spiders. I, 26 years old as I am, was genuinely scared thinking of what it must be down there.
The plot seemed to be even simpler than that of the previous movie. I was genuinely disappointed to find out who the real villain was this time. Let's hope "The Prisoner of Azkaban" has a more complicated and twistier plot.
I am at a loss of what to make of this movie. For Potter fans it is a must, but for others it is only worth watching if you really liked the previous movie. For myself, I am still looking forward to the 20th James Bond movie, which I hope will be more exciting than this.