Disappointing

Rating: Null/10 (8 June 2004)

Being a Harry Potter purist the 3rd movie in the series was a large disappointment. I sat through the very short movie constantly thinking to myself and sometimes outloud, "WHAT!", "They cut that out", "thats not right." The largest gripes that I have with the movie are as follows:
1. The setting of the school and the grounds was changed. The old castle and school grounds were pure to the books. The new castle and ground look like they are in some dark corner of the world and do not fit well with the other movies. In a serialized series like Harry Potter continuity is important and with this film that is broken for a castle that looks horrible and a school grounds that just don't exist.
2. Quiddich, Harry's favorite thing of all time starred for 5 minutes total. 5 minutes is not enough for this amazing sport. If you are a Harry Potter fan than you are elated to see every second of a quiddich match!
3. They cut out Sir Caddogan, most of professor trelawney, almost all of the young wizards Defense Against the Dark Arts training, pretty much everything that made the book great.
Too much was cut in total. Otherwise being a very good adaptation this film did not feel like a Harry Potter film and it did not seem to be a continuation of the last film. This film makes it hard to believe that it is set in the same world as every flavor beans, chocolate frogs, and wizards chess. To sum it all up... DISAPPOINTING.