Good ride again, but...

Rating: 8/10 (20 November 2002)

I am a big Harry Potter book fan, thus I am sad to say that this film is again greatly lacking in the wonderfulness of the books. However, it is decent film that is fun to watch with Grint again giving the best performance. Branagh and Coulson close seconds. Both owned the parts wholly. I am sad that again Columbus missed some of the finer points about the characters, especially the Weasly family and their importance. Too much effort with the "action" rather than the story which is truly unnecessary and often unbelievable, such as the Quiditch match that missed much of the point of it and put the story action out of view of the characters for us the audiences sake. Wonderful art direction and cinematography, but still lacking in the emotion of the books.