Great Movie, best yet

Rating: Null/10 (21 June 2004)

First of all, i have read all of the harry potter books to date and i think they are all amazing. With the first being introductory to the series and a bit confusing at first, but necessary. The second one i think was mainly filler, but it was still good, the movie wasn't that great, however. prisoners of Azkaban introduced the idea that the series was going to get darker and finally got the story moving and twisting into a spiral that leads to the last book. Goblet of fire was also a great book like the others, it became even darker and emphasized on prisoners of azkaban in the fact that harry potter isn't going to be a nice calm story about a wizard though. and finally the order of the pheonix introduced action and responsibility to the characters of harry potter. Wow i got a little of subject but its hard not to review everything thats out so far. Anyway, I highly recommend that fans and non-fans of harry potter go see this movie. It really hops back and makes up for what the chamber of secrets wasn't. Thankfully under a new director, alfonzo cuaron or however its spelled. I hope he does the 5th book because his idea of how the harry potter series should work is by far the best seen on the silver screen yet. It rivals with the first movie, but it improves on everything that everyone loved about the first one. Also, the characters are growing up, and so are the actors. I think they portray this very well with hermione getting a sense of style, even though shes not really supposed to look great until the 4th installment. I think the way the harry potter movies have slowly but surely made her more and more mature have done a great job in doing that. As Emma always been a great actor for hermione. Not to mention rons character, he was great in the first one, and annoying in the second one. But in prisoners of azkaban he really shows his color as hes learned more about the character. Rupert really got the character down this time. And Daniel playing harry, he has improved the character a lot, he still needs to show more emotion at times, but all in all he did a wonderful job of portraying harry in the prisoners of azkaban. All in all, this movie is by far the best installment in the series yet, the actors have gotten down the parts of their characters very well, while there still is room for improvement, the job they have done in this movie is excellent. I hope that the rest of the movies improve upon the awesomeness of the prisoners of azkaban. Which is looking to be i an fairly bright like right now, there's no more to complain about. They have it down and are ready to grow along with the characters.