Beautiful and nicely adapted

Rating: 9/10 (27 July 2002)

When I first read the Harry Potter books, I thought, 'this would make a great movie scenario. The descriptions are very precise and the dialogue sounds like a series of film replicas'. Well, the movie was actually made, and I must say I liked it.
I found the adaptation was pretty good; the storyline was in most part respected and I thought the acting was quite good also, although the physical description of some of the actors didn't quite fit with what I had imagined when reading the book... but hey, I can't blame anyone for that! I found the settings and the backgrounds beautiful and inspiring, and these matched very well with my 'imagined world of Harry Potter'. Some of the cute and/or funny things I liked about the book were omitted in the film; I guess they were less important than the storyline itself. Although the movie is 2 and a half hours, I didn't find it too long.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is actually a fairly good movie. It is well worth being seen, although I must say I enjoyed the book better. I give the movie 9 out of 10.