Unusually high rating in IMDb.. NOT the book fans I'm sure

Rating: 5/10 (10 December 2005)

The movie was a disappointment. I understand that the book is far too long to incorporate into a movie but, I hoped that what little they picked out from the book they could have tried getting it right. The headmaster Dumbledore was completely out of character behaving more like a angry old man rather than a calm and wise old wizard. Voldermort turned out to be a joke with his rock singer like antics. They got the 'slit-like' noses, and the 'high pitched' voice though. But he looked anything like the most evil wizard of all. Who picked these guys to act anyway? As for the plot, there were some agonizing moments in the movie such as the quidditch games which started, and then never ended. Sort of a clear message to the viewers saying: "Sorry folks we've got to finish up this movie and we can't put in everything. Moving on to other things in brief....". Well I'm sorry, but the show length was 157 mins long. That's still less than 3 hours, and if you include a scene at LEAST complete it. Pretty bad work Mr. Director.
Some of the major characters were left out. Such as Molly Weasley and the House Elf (whatziznameagain?). Time wasn't an excuse.... bad job...really bad job...
The underwater scenery was good, and so was the dragon chase (but it was highly exaggerated) AND.. a NEEDLESS waste of that precious commodity, time...
Harry Potter book fans will be disappointed...I think the movies are targeting the fans who haven't read the book. How disgusting.