Different world

Rating: 5/10 (15 June 2006)

My first reaction on this movie was something like: "Oh my god, they totally changed the whole story!" And I still think it's true. I know the book four is too extensive to get everything in one movie, but than they should film two parts! That would be absolutely great. I missed so many wonderful scenes like the Quidditch World Cup (they didn't even say who won!). The storyline was crowded into too short time, one action scene by other. People who didn't read the book may like it, but everybody who did must know how many things they changed.
The worst thing in this movie was the atmosphere. I was always imagining Hogwarts as a medieval school, full of ancient things and with that medieval atmosphere. Prisoner of Azkaban has everything I wanted Hogwarts look like. But this movie is more from nowadays, for example the discotheque after the Yule Ball-I truly hate that scene. Of course it's nice idea, but it doesn't belong to HP world.
Another thing I didn't like is music. Patrick Doyle is good, I kinda like some of his scores, but after real master John Williams it seems so poor and without emotions. I rather do not mention that song "Do the Hipogryff"...
Okay, that's almost everything for the bad =o) Just that scene with the dragon. Too long, too boring. I really don't thing the idea with breaking the chain was good. I would delete that scene and add something better-even from the deleted scenes, maybe that one with Snape and Karkarov.
But of course it's still Harry Potter, at least the main characters are still the same, so I can't say I HATE that movie. I just don't like it so much as the others. For acting I would like to show my opinion that Emma Watson was much more better in the first movies before she grew up and ceased to play spontaneously. I think she's endeavoring too much. Rupert Grint is still the same for me, that means not the best, yet not the worst. However I can put glory on Daniel Radcliffe. I didn't like him so much in the first movies, but now I can see he's getting better and better. I'm not professional to talk about acting, yet I see he's really good. He's playing with a lot of emotions and mainly with heart. When I see him on screen I'm not looking at ACTOR, but at HARRY POTTER. You may say that's normal because we know him mainly from this role, nevertheless I do not see Hermione, but still the actor. I can't explain it, it is just so.
What I really enjoyed was the scene at the graveyard. Even if I didn't think Ralph Fiennes will be the right one for playing Voldemort, I think he did great job. He wasn't so scary, anyway I liked him. When Harry gets back with Cedric's body and don't want to drop him, I am always close to tears. Daniel played it so emotive!
And that's all I guess. Sorry for my English, I'm not so good at it.