A slow start to the best film series ever

Rating: 9/10 (16 April 2020)

The first Harry Potter film, and for that reason it had to have an introduction to Hogwarts and how Harry Ron and Hermione became friends. The scenes where Harry meets Ron and Hermione for the first time on the train is a little boring to watch nowadays. It is a vital part of the movie and it had to be there, but I can't deny the scene isn't very spectacular. It wasn't just this scene that was a bit dull though, all the scenes that reveal more of Ron and Hermione's personality are great to watch for the first time but they really lack replay value. They have to be there though for character development For example the scene when Ron making fun of the way Hermione says wingardium leviousa is a little boring to watch now but it's necessary for Ron's character to become as good as it was in later movies.
My other criticism of the movie is there just simply isn't much going on in the first half of the movie, it's just Harry getting used to his lessons at Hogwarts. While these lessons aren't exactly boring, they aren't extremely entertaining scene, not on the same level of entertainment as the later films. But like the train scene, the lesson scenes were crucial to understand how Hogwarts works. The chess game was good and the big reveal at the end was shocking. Overall it's a very good film, it just has a necessary slow start but picks up eventually.
Plot Complexity: 14/20 Emotion (Not including laughs): 8.5/10 Characters: 9.5/10 Consistency: 9.5/10 Laugh Factor: 4/10 - didn't really make me laugh but Harry giving Dudley a pig's tail might make some laugh Scare Factor: 2/10 Sex Factor: 1/10