better than the last

Rating: 9/10 (28 July 2007)

While it will never be possible for any of the later films to be as true to the books as the first two (dont forget that the first two were less than 300 pages and the last several have been well over 600) I think that this movie does a good job of keeping to the story line. When a book is as beloved, and yes even as obsessed over, as these books are, there are always going to be those people that are disappointed when the minute details that make the story books what they are are not included in the movie. Overall, it is really well done and they managed to get much more of the main story line into this film than the last. The cinematography is wonderful and the acting is getting better every time. As the main characters grown up and their acting becomes less forced, the movies continue to evoke the essence of the written characters. The ensemble cast including such British greats as Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson really brings these films past the children's films that I think that many adults think of them as and into an entirely new genre. Our grandparents had the Lord of the Rings and this generation has Harry Potter. Well worth seeing.