Entertaining for kids, boring for adults

Rating: 5/10 (15 July 2002)

"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is little kid's eye candy. Funny, crazy and weird creatures and backgrounds appear around every corner, which is fun to behold until a point. This film, directed by Chris Columbus and based on the popular J.K. Rowling novel, comes in at around two and half hours and feels at least that long, if not a little longer. Little kids will probably enjoy it, but after awhile, eye candy can only do so much. Children will enjoy the visual imagination in front of them, but anyone over the age of 13 may be looking for a little more substance behind the characters than this. A 5 out of 10.