Very well done movie, got away from being too childish

Rating: 9/10 (31 December 2004)

I've read all of the Harry Potter books 10 times each and I'm a huge fan, which also sets me up to not like the movies. I liked the first two movies. I was worried about this movie because the book starts to get darker and I was afraid it wouldn't be captured in the right way. Alfonso Cuaron did an amazing job with the cameras and the movie turned out very well. The one let down may be that if you hadn't read the book, you wouldn't understand some of the story that somewhat is useful to know later in the books...I don't know about the movies. The casting for the movie was excellent, at least in my opinion. I imagined Sirius Black, and the other new characters exactly as they are in the movie. Gary Oldman is the perfect Sirius Black. However, I didn't picture Remus Lupin to look like David Thewlis, but still a good job with the casting.