Amazing (bad) magic!

Rating: Null/10 (8 June 2004)

The director did AMAZING magic with this movie; he managed to absolutely and completely suck ALL the charm out of Harry Potter! True book fans will be sadly disappointed. It was Hitchcock does Harry Potter. The only bright light was Emma Thompson. She did a great job as Professor Trelawny. Even the HP regulars seemed to have forgotten how to act. I agree with a previous comment; I just can't believe that JK Rowling approves of this movie. It was very oddly filmed too. All of the characters seemed abnormally tall and thin. Some odd filming. Everything was oddly lighted. Everything was just ugly. They stunted significant plot points and, well, at risk of repeating myself - left out all of the charm of the books. What a shame.