Wonderful imagination and just like the first book! But they don't include Peeves...

Rating: 10/10 (4 July 2006)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone/2001/****
Main Stars: Daniel Radcliffe Emma Watson Rupert Grint
Okay, so this is the starting film, the very first film of the seven-part series of HARRY POTTER! What a wonderful, charming, and imaginative book and movie! I was extremely entertained with the book after I saw the movie. I was only in third grade when the movie came out so I was not the best at reading nor the most convinced of reading. I have read all of the books and I say I am very impressed with all of them; however, I also am safe to say some were better than others. I'm totally interested in the whole series and many readers can't wait until the seventh book of the seven-part series comes out and neither can I Well I can wait because I have other books to read but I will, when the seventh book comes out, start reading immediately because the sixth book actually leads into the seventh which makes you hang on for a long time. But before the seventh book and movie and the prequels before that happen, the world lay at the mercy of the young 11 year old Harry Potter having to face the mystery of the Sorcerer's Stone in his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He becomes Hogwarts's newest celebrity on the very first day when everyone whispers in gob smacked voices, "Harry Potter!" Harry Potter, as clueless as he is since he lives with the foul, evil Muggle Dursleys', doesn't know he's a wizard until the keeper of the keys, Hagrid, tells him. And the most expected scene would be Harry getting his letter which is inviting him to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and to become a very complex wizard in his seven years of learning; progressing toward the end until finally BEcoming one of the best, smartest, cleverest wizards to ever live. Ever since Lord Voldemort gave Harry Potter that scar on his forehead Harry has become famous throughout the wizard world. In the Muggle world, however, everyone could careless about him as though he's some regular pedestrian on the sidewalk with a normal and dull life. Yet in the wizard world everyone shouts enthusiastically, "HARRY POTTER! WE MEET AT LAST! YOU LOOK JUST LIKE YOUR PARENTS DID. YOU LOOK JUST LIKE YOUR FATHER BUT YOU HAVE YOUR MOTHER'S EYES! YOU LOOK JUST LIKE I DREAMED YOU WOULD!" Then they bow down to Harry like he's there ruler, their lord and so on and so forth So this so-called Sorcerer's Stone is a secret, very secret stone and it's all Hogwarts's business according to Dumbledore and Hagrid. Yet later in the magnificent film, the stone becomes Harry's, Ron's, and Hermione's quest to find the secret of it. Nicolas Flamel has something to do with it and Nicolas is a friend of Dumbledore and Dumbledore himself wouldn't dare give out valuable information regarding the Sorcerer's Stone. What exactly is it? Oh come on Lord Voldemort thinks it is power for him but obviously it's not. It's a stone and a useless piece of junk (supposedly), which is then later, destroyed. But what then makes this film so magnificent? The original Quidditch matches of course and all the rest of the guts that fill in the movie and it is all from J.K. Rowling's magnificent, creative imagination. The story (the book) and the movie are both equally entertaining because the movie follows the story of the book very well. Then there's the very original character Lord Voldemort Wow how awesome was the very last scene when Lord Voldemort escapes in a very painful way from Professor Quirrel's weak body and how he turns to dust/dirt at the very end! One thing is for sure, the movie itself and book will become classics ten to fifteen years from now. They'll always remain classics to me, now and forever. Movie directed by Chris Columbus.