Cute, but very far away from the greatness of the books...

Rating: Null/10 (1 December 2001)

HP did entertain me. It's a faithful adaptation of the images of the book, but nothing else. It just cannot convey much of the emotion of the characters in the book, and in the end, it ends up being just a great disappoinment... why, you may ask? because of the same reason Star Wars EP I:TPM sucked: the use of BAD CGI is stunning! they abused, no, USED an obscene ammount of bad CGI at some key points where it was not needed... and that breaks up the fantasy, disrupts the suspension of disbelief when one could be having a ball. The technical flaws on this one hurt it very deeply, but still it's not a bad movie. It just didn't live up to the hype, and will never reach the level of fun the book series bring. Would've gotten 3 stars out of five, but since I have read the books and have thus something to compare them to it gets measly 2 out of 5.