As an avid reader of the Harry Potter series, this movie was a real delight

Rating: Null/10 (5 January 2007)

I was actually very pleased with this Harry Potter film, it included a lot of the original plot line and didn't sacrifice too much of the story or details for the sake of time or simplicity. So far, this is my favorite Harry Potter movie; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is my least favorite, because it just cut out and changed waaay too much for me to enjoy, knowing how good the movie could have been (My brother saw this movie with me w/o reading the book first and he liked it, I had to explain where it went wrong). The only major complaint I had as I watched the movie (as my boyfriend lives to torture me about, since he agreed to watch the movie with me if I didn't complain about the director leaving things out/changing things/etc.) in the theater was the final task in the maze just because it was far more interesting in the book and would've looked awesome brought to life on the big screen. Don't get me wrong, the maze scene in the movie was good, but come on, to me all it seem like was a psychological battle for each of the contestants, against themselves and the bushes, where's the challenge? Where are the sphinx, blast ended-skewerts (sp?)??? After viewing this movie once more I've discovered a few things that now I wish were included, just for the sake of continuity with the next book/movie in the series (the movie is fine without these sub-story lines/scenes): Rita Skeeter's other stories (e.g. her Harry Potter is crazy story) and the Rita Skeeter is an anamaigus story line, and the whole Snape and Sirius setting aside their differences (in the short term) and going off to do their respective jobs for Dumbledor, and Harry giving his winnings to the Twns so they could open a joke shop (as well as the blackmailing storyline that went along with that).