Brilliant film, but fairly badly adapted

Rating: 9/10 (22 December 2006)

I absolutely LOVE this film, but as a Harry Potter book fan I was slightly disappointed in how it had been adapted from the book.
I saw the film before reading the book, and thought that this film was great, although there were parts that confused me, like there was no explanation why Harry's patronus was a stag, and not much explanation about the Marauders and the marauders map. Whilst this film was great cinematically, it was not very well adapted from the book. I thought this was disappointing as the film was the shortest out of all the movies released up until at least the 4th film. I think reorganising the events in the book was not very good.
The film also had a bit too much 'cheese' for my liking. I did not like the end bit of Harry on the Firebolt and parts of the Whomping Willow scene.
All in all, the film was really great entertainment, I was disappointed with the way it was adapted, but Alfonso Cuarón was an excellent director and this film deserves a high rating.
***** Stars