Harry Potter in IMAX 3D

Rating: 9/10 (19 July 2007)

I've never read any of the books (but my sister has, so she fills me in on what was missing from the movies) so I always see the Harry Potter movies without expectations of what I want to see in it. I thought the movie was excellent; perhaps the best so far! But the 3-D effects were disappointing. They were very good, and were quite effective in showing vast spaces, but they could have been a lot better. If you've never seen a really well-done 3-D movie (like the ones at Universal Studios in Florida) you should thoroughly enjoy the 3-D in Harry Potter. But having seen what is possible in a 3-D movie, where things can seem to actually pop right out of the screen and into the audience so it looks like you could reach out and touch it (or get hit by it) it's easy to see how much better the 3-D in Harry Potter should have been.