Funny, thrilling, exciting- an excellent mix!

Rating: Null/10 (8 December 2002)

This may not have been my favorite book from the Harry Potter series, but I still enjoyed it, and they made a hell of a movie out of it. It was a lot darker and more thrilling than the first one, and unlike the first movie, some elements are actually scary, like the giant spiders (an animal I hate with all my soul) and the basilisk. All of the characters are well-portrayed, and you can see that the boy's voices have changed quite a bit. You could already notice Daniel Radcliffe's voice changing in the Philosopher's Stone, but here, it is deep all the time. Rupert Grint's voice has also changed quite a bit, a little deeper, and crackling (he's actually 14 years old by the way) and Tom Felton seems a lot taller and meaner than the first one (Tom Felton is 15 by the way). Emma Watson also seems to have grown into a more mature young woman. All of the other characters from the first one were also good (I enjoyed Richard Harris's last performance, I'm really going to miss him), but I was deeply amazed by the new coming actors. Kenneth Branagh is a real scene-stealer as Professor Lockhart, so is Dobby the house-elf, and Moaning Myrtle, but I believe the best performance came from Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy. I'm glad they didn't change the score from the first one, and the settings are still amazing. The visual effects are again amazing (although I do wish they had made some scenes shorter). What else can I say, it is an excellent movie. 9.5/10.