Somebody teach these kids how to act ...

Rating: 3/10 (16 December 2002)

Sorry, but if I have to see Rupert Grint try to act perplexed/terrified one more time, I'm going to take his broken wand and shove it up where the sun don't shine.
And Daniel Radcliffe may look like the kid on the cover of the books, but the cartoon kid shows more believable emotions. What a pity that this huge behemoth of a "franchise" rests on such poor actors. Give us a couple of really good child actors and maybe it'd work. Plenty of grown-ups disagree I'm sure, and that's OK. Peace, people, it's just my own rather opinionated two penn'orth.
The movie? Long, claustrophobic, full of holes. And why does Hagrid get all that applause at the end? For doing what, exactly? For being big and looking like a tramp? Best thing in the film: ... Richard Harris, by a mile, God rest his soul.