A great MOVIE

Rating: 9/10 (25 November 2005)

My wife and I saw it the other night. She has read the HP books several times, and was disappointed with the same things I've seen other HP faithful write repeatedly on this site - bad interpretation of Mad Eye Moody, bad direction of Hermoine, no Dursleys, such-and-such was left out, and the list goes on.
I, on the other hand, comprise what I am sure is a very small minority of people who has not as of yet been able to read the book yet - and I really liked the movie. I think it is about as good a movie as one can see right now, if you look at it as simply a movie. Good story, good special effects, good characters, and Moody and Ron's antics really steal the show (for me at least).
But, if you can only see this as a book adaptation, then it suffers the same fate as about 95% of all book adaptations: "The book was better, and I didn't like how they did (blank)." It's a shame, really, because this film is far-and-away better than most of the tripe spewing out of Hollywood these days.
PS: One thing we both agree on was that Voldemort was FANTASTIC. I thought Ralph Fienns did a great job acting him, and my wife felt he was a great interpretation of the character in the book.