Crap

Rating: 1/10 (4 January 2006)

I enjoyed the books very much, I enjoyed the movies even more, until now that is... What was the director thinking??? This should have been two movies! Now it was like a series of little one lined trailers taken out of the book. Suddenly not only Rupert Grint showed to be a bad actor, even Daniel Radcliffe himself was terrible. Even worse, besides the parts Emma Watson, Jason Isaacs, Michael Gambon and Alan Rickman played, it was like the editors had a great idea: let's remove all the scenes in which the actors perform well and let's show the visitors all the others can't at all.
It was amazing and shocking to see that the best parts were left overs from Alfonso Cuarón's Prisoner of Azkaban: the art and props department had very little to do I think, since they all used Alfonso's input.
But hell, what can one expect from a 63 year old director I guess.
The only reason I didn't walk out of theater was because i was there with all my family of whom at least my mother seemed to enjoy herself with this movie.
I think the 12 year old next girl next to me illustrated this movie best: 30 seconds before something would happen she said to her mother exactly right what was going to take place (like: oh, there's gonna be a shocking moment now) and after the movie she told me she never read the books :( So a big thanks to mr. Mike Newell from turning the magical Harry Potter world into a bad seventies circus act. And if you disagree on this one: take a look on how both schools entered Hogwards, my god,what a terrible circus act that turned out to be :( but hey, take a look at yourself if you are a fan: not many i have met who disagree with me on this one ...