A good movie  but it leaves out so much of the book!

Rating: 9/10 (5 June 2004)

If you are a Harry Potter fan without the benefit of reading the books, then I am sure you really enjoyed this latest movie, and perhaps thought it was the best of the trio so far. Most of the fans of the books have said the same thing to me, they were a little disappointed at how much was left out.
Having said that I am not comparing the movie to a book for the purpose of this review, so I will say the special effects were outstanding as always  I don't know how they achieve a lot of what is on screen, especially the flying Hippogriff, but it is so seamless that you really don't think it's a special effect at the time, it's only after that you think back on how good the effects were.
I would have preferred there to be more subplots in the story, as there certainly were more in the book, but for some reason they left them out.
The young actors are growing up in their roles, and I didn't find there was anything wrong with their acting at all, although some people have made comments about their accents being hard to understand. Obviously these people are not British because the accents are not at all hard to understand, but to someone non-British they could be  much in the same way as I struggled to understand some of the accents in Cold Mountain, etc.
I think in the next movie I would like there to be more interaction with the adult actors  especially the best ones, like Snape and Hagrid, and perhaps for it not to be quite so dark (I don't mean evil-dark, I just mean dull-dark!).
I gave this movie a 9 out of 10  it was exactly what I wanted and expected, and I enjoyed it greatly, I can't wait for November 2005 now for The Goblet of Fire!