Harry Potter and the Canon of Azkaban

Rating: 6/10 (14 July 2005)

I saw this opening day and was all excited because it was my favorite book in the series. Well, let me tell you. What a let down. As a movie by itself it was relatively okay. It just left to much unknown. More than one person who hasn't read the book has asked me question because they didn't explain things in the movie. My friend was utterly lost about the Maurader's Map and why Harry's Patronus came out a stag.The movie just left to many plot holes for people who were uninformed. My group of friends and I (huge Harry fans by the way) came out of the movie down-hearted. In the whole series, my two favorite characters are Remus Lupin and Sirius Black. I thought they screwed- up the portraying of these two men. Lupin, in the books is reserved and sensitive, not brash to Harry and a show tunes fan. Sirius is supposed to be sickly and dirty, but not decrepit and tattooed (anyone else wonder why it looked like he had a menorah on his chest). The story was almost so far from canon that I wanted to scream.
Out of all the Harry Potter films so far, I must say this is probably the most entertaining, but the farthest from canon. If your a canon freak like me, stick to Chamber of Secrets. I can only hope that Goblet of Fire is somewhat canon, but from what I heard it maybe a downer too!