Beats LOTR hands down...

Rating: Null/10 (29 December 2001)

This is a much subtler movie...while it might seem episodic...it moves along at a clipping pace. The actors are marvellous (as others have noted; bouquets to Alan Rickman and Maggie Smith and Hagrid and young 'arry). They had depth -- something not evident in the LOTR characters. The graphics were great perhaps not as subtle as LOTR. At least we weren't bombarded with countless (bad) battle scenes. I disagree with other reviewers who felt this was more childish than LOTR (which I thought brimmed with mawkish sentimentality and posturing). Those poms can sure act. And no token females--the females here had a decent role ...