ET?

Rating: Null/10 (16 November 2002)

Best of the books. Very long movie for so few hundred pages. Branagh a complete surprise - counted on him being totally miscast. Very little of Cleese. Harris was grand - RIP: he did an awesome job. Oh - the kids are getting old.
Some important stuff missing, as I remember it. Wonder if Dobby will be the next Jar-Jar.
Why, when everything else is studiously English, let John Williams slip through the door? Major mistake - singularly most truly untalented person in music today. HP becomes ET over again - very annoying.
Scary, very scary. Too much so for 14 year olds? Maybe. But lots of movie, worth the price of admission. Will be interesting to see how it fares against its predecessor at the box office.