Entertaining but has some things that strike me as odd

Rating: 4/10 (8 May 2020)

As someone who has not read the books and just watched the movie for the first time I am surprised with what I encountered. Harry Potter comes across as having a hero complex or some nonsense. Why does he feel like he and his posse have to be the ones to figure out what is happening. If he just let the professors do their job things would work out, that Snape guy seemed like a pretty sharp individual I am sure he had things covered. Letting my kids watch that I was just thinking to myself, "If all this rule breaking went on in my house I'd have to lay the law down". Harry and company though, they get to take a walk in the woods as punishment. Just missing the hut made of candy if you ask me. The other thing I noticed was dividing the student body into groups or social division going on. First you see "muggles" having their own classification and then the first thing they do to first years entering the school is sort them into cliques. It's like they are asking to create a rift between students and on top of that there is a house cup competition going on? No rules whatsoever if I feel like docking points I do. I mean that leaves the gate open to favoritism if you ask me. So in short the movie focuses on an entitled boy who thinks it's ok to break rules because he is the chosen hero in a school that supports dividing the student body.