very odd indeed..

Rating: Null/10 (3 June 2004)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the darkest of the movies so far. Cuarôn has done a great job on the emotional part and the special effects, but the movie should have been twice as long. Unfortunately the storyline is quite different from the book as they have cut so much, that people who haven't read the books have difficulties to follow the plot - I don't think they can actually understand it.
I'm a bit disappointed that important key scenes - at least what I think are some - are mentioned in no word. The marauders should be a good example: OK, Harry got the map an' all, but that Professor Lupin is one of the inventors of the map, and why Harrys' patronus has such a shape doesn't get clear to someone not knowing the book. Ah, the patronus.. the book says that Harrys' Patronus was circling around Harry, Sirius and Hermione - who isn't there in this scene... At last she's at Quidditch. Uh, Quidditch! When Harry fell off his broom the book said that it was around 50 feet... in the movie it's about a mile and a half.. very odd.
Everything looks quite different from the first two movies, not only that the atmosphere is quite dark, but also Hargid's Hut being downhill, the big and the small lake.. honestly, I was disappointed about the movie, but it's quite amazing to see these children grow and improve. Especially Emma as Hermione (where of course the improvement of her - ehh - femaleness is the only reason for me to watch this movie again and again and again..).