Rewatch of 2020

Rating: 4/10 (21 January 2020)

Watching this Harry Potter movie over with nostalgia, although I am getting to the fair play criticism here.
Downside of this movie. The dialog is pretty predictable, kid friendly, too many special effects overused. Plotting is going too fast in this movie, even before the opening titles we don't get any reasonable Harry family sacrifice for his child. It is obvious that the movie is gonna have flashbacks in every sequel.
Dumbledore doesn't feel like the Dumbledore we had in the third movie, that is why recasting of the death of the actor, I don't think he really fitted the role of the Dumbledore.
Harry, Ron and Hermonie leaving off to the chamber leaves reasonable opening questions, why does the movie always have to side with the main character going inside and face Voldemort alone ? Why does Ron have to sit on the horse while getting hit, he just could of commanded the horse solo without any injuries. I think the wand riding in the movies pretty clunky and awkward too.
This leaves me to the opening plot: Why Hermonie is witty and the smartest , should she be ordered to leave to a higher year because she knows too many spells already, the wizard committee could of already seen her potential being higher in her classes, also this might is the reason why the movie gets the excuse to involve her in so much plotting, she teaching Harry and Ron all the time and saving them with comfortable spells.
The movie is clunky overall, why would Harry, Ron and Hermy would get thrown to the woods of detention with Hagrid , Hagrid sends Harry and Malfoy to wander alone just for them to have the scene.
The movie kind of does nothing with the extra characters, we get a little bit Ginny and Neville but that is it. Snape saved this movie, he is the most important saver of this movie and Hagrid is a comfortable comic relief.