Shallow and ultimately pointless

Rating: 5/10 (12 June 2004)

This is possibly the worst attempt by Hollywood to convert a 1000+ page book into a movie less than 2 hours long. It was like seeing a Cliff Notes on screen...many of my favorite parts from the book were cut, the little touches that made the book so endearing. The characters were not fleshed out at all, none of the child actors can act (They should have been replaced for this movie...children that can kind of act when they're young do not always mature into great actors in their teens), and it seemed to me that if the viewer came in with no prior knowledge of the Harry Potter, they would be lost, and what's more, I doubt they would care. Pitiful.