Disappointment

Rating: Null/10 (1 June 2004)

I saw this film last night and I was extremely disappointed. The film was extremely light on plot and was comic in parts where a more sober tone was called for. The child actors have improved a great deal since the first film but Malfoy has become a caricature and his hair is now a scarily un-natural shade of platinum, which really doesn't make him more believable. I felt really let-down watching this film - the pace was slow and I constantly had a feeling that something was missing.
However, having said that, the effects were good, Buckbeak was just as I imagined, and David Thewlis played a marvelously ethereal Professor Lupin.
Still worth the price of the ticket - just forget what you've read in the book and you'll probably enjoy it.