Disappointment

Rating: Null/10 (7 June 2004)

Last night I had the distinct pleasure of going to see the third installment of the Harry Potter films. I, like so many others of you out there, have read every book and am anxiously awaiting the sixth book's arrival. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was my favorite book of the five that are out so far. I cannot say, however, that the movie was my favorite. So many things were contradictory in the third as compared to the first and second. For example, weren't Hagrid's hut and the Weeping Willow quite close to the castle in the first and second movies? In the third they are a tremendous distance away. Also, I haven't gone back to check, but I'm pretty sure Professor Flitwick (or who I thought was playing Professor Flitwick) was a completely different actor that looked nothing like the original. Those are just some differences and contradictions from the three movies. That says nothing of all the things they left out from the amazing book. What happened to two of the three Quidditch games? Didn't Gryffindor win the Quidditch and House Cups? I thought it was very important for Harry to meet Cho Chang in the third book considering they somewhat get together in the fourth, but she was nowhere to be seen. One of the biggest reasons I was looking forward to the third movie was Hogsmeade. I couldn't wait to see Zonko's Joke Shop, Honeydukes, and the Three Broomsticks. Not there. Didn't see a bit of it. No Butterbear, no Chocolate frogs. Nothing. I'm disappointed in the movie, but don't get me wrong; it was an excellent movie and I understand that they could not get everything in there. I just think they left out some key elements.
P.S. Dumbledore is just not the same.