Good movie, but just didn't live up to the book

Rating: 6/10 (9 March 2006)

It was a good movie but it was just way to choppy and missing out on many crutial details. If I hadn't already read the book I would have been completely confused and lost. There wasn't very great transitions in between the tasks and characters weren't very well described and were given no background information. I mean don't get me wrong, it was a good movie, but it just flat out didn't live up to the book. I loved the special effects with the dragons and the mermaids though, also the scene with Voltemort in the graveyard was pretty decent. I was just disappointed on how many details were left out about many key creatures and characters that come on later on in the series and what make the book so magical and entertaining, such as the sirens, as they never mentioned. The maze was very poorly done I would say too, all it was was a harmless maze with a bunch of attacking bushes and branches. Where were the creatures like the blasted-ended srewts and the boggart? The most disappointing thing I would have to say though was the conclusion. in the book it set up a great cliff-hanger, the movie didn't. They were no arguments between Fudge and Dumbledore which set up the great conflict between the minisrty and Dumbledore.
Well it was a good movie, but just not good enough.