Wonderful . . . but the book is better

Rating: 10/10 (27 November 2001)

The movie was well made, and it was true to the book, there was
not a lot of "Hollywood" influences. However, the movie did not
provide much insight into the characters such as Albus
Dumbledore and Hagrid. However since the book was so long
and packed with details, it is difficult to make all of the information
into a reasonably short movie. Therefore you are provided with
one long 2 hour rising climax, until the very end when you are
giving a conclusion to all of the ideas presented throughout the
movie. In contrast, the book provides many scenes in which there
is a rising climax and then conclusions to those scenes.
Therefore if you haven't read the book, then you will wonder why
you are being presented so many different ideas throughout the
movie. I would have to recommend this movie to Harry Potter fans
who have read the book, otherwise you might get buried in all of
the ideas thrown at you in the theater.