Good, but needed more!

Rating: Null/10 (7 June 2004)

Spoiler I went to this movie with the expectation of it being as good as the book. Sadly it was not as good as the book. The book kinda carried you away, I felt like while i watched the movie there was a barrier there keeping me from seeing what was really going on.
The movie started off with aunt marge coming to visit (no one even knows why) They dropped the whole part about hagrid sending harry the monster book of monsters, they also dropped the part about ron calling harry on the telephone (truly a must have they kinda circled around aunt marge's visit but never really hit the nail on the head. After he fled from his aunt and uncles thats when it really got messed up.
The knight bus was way to crowded, in the book it made it seem like a almost pleasant place to ride in. but in the movie the bus cluttered and the beds were not neat(also in the book he stayed in the bus a LONG time but in the movie it was about 1 min. Once he got to the leaky cauldron i don't know what was up with tom but if you read the book you sure don't see him as a hunchback. The conversation between fudge and harry seemed a little vague. I Absolutely HATE HE FACT THAT HE Didn't GET TO ACTUALLY GO INTO DIAGON ALLEY. Him not lusting over the firebolt every day for a month kinda took the excitement off of him getting one at the end. also the part at the bookstore with the cage of monster books, that would have been a really good scene. anyway off to hogwarts, oh oh the dementors they were not explained enough you didn't fear them like you feared them in the book they just werent as scary. They casting was superb I loved gary as sirius and also love lupins character although the mustache was a little puzzling. sirius was also not explained enough you didn't fear him. I the book it told about how he murdered all these people. also they didn't even explain his connection to harrys family and how close they were.
one of the things i did like about the movie was buckbeak he was perfect. One more complaint, i you didn't read the book you didn't know the connection between (mooney-lupin,prongs-harrys father,wormtail-peter petigrew and padfoot- sirius) the movie didn't explain that they created the map and neither did it explain that they all were best friends. If they were going to make a movie that didn't follow the book it should have been for the first two movies but this book was so good it should have almost been word for word.
All in All the movie was WAY to rushed it could have be 30 min longer and they could have gotten in a bunch more stuff that was vital to the movie. i give this movie a 6 out of 10. I loved it but for someone who hasent read the book they are going to be VERY lost.