Horrible

Rating: 1/10 (19 November 2005)

This movie sucks. The book that bears the same name (but is totally different) is where the series turns from good to great. The movie is where the series turns from okay to BAD. The very first scene departs from the book by adding another person in the Riddle house. The entire part about Harry being home and the Weaslys coming to take him to the Quidditch World Cup and him staying at their house is gone. They move the group from the top box to the nosebleeds for the movie and cut out Winky and her theft of Harry's wand altogether. They show none of the quidditch game, don't show the mascots, and instead of the kids running through the woods and having a confrontation with Draco (which is big in the book for character development), Harry just falls down and gets kicked outside the tent. This is just what is screwed up in the first ten minutes. I actually left the theatre after the dragon broke its chain, chased Harry around campus and then went King Kong on one of the towers. What happened to the dragon, you might ask? Nobody knows. Evidently it's just sleeping down on the grounds somewhere. Hopefully the director will read this page and realize that he needs to quit and never direct another movie again. Ever. Especially not one that ruins a great book.