Well, gee. Now I know what everything in the book looks like without having to use my imagination.

Rating: 2/10 (26 March 2002)

Nearly every single scene from _Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's (or Philosopher's) Stone_ is in the movie, but there's still something missing. Something big and very important, and it isn't Peeves.
It's the heart.
I saw this train wreck in a dollar theater and felt like I was having the book read to me flatly. All it does is show you what the producers think everything in the story looked like without ever bothering with what the story was ABOUT. I know a movie's in deep, deep trouble when I really couldn't give a pair of fetid dingo kidneys about the title character or his friends.
Do the little ones a big, big favor and sit them in front of "the Neverending Story", which has got more imagination in any given frame of film than "Harry" has in its entire running length. And it does so while (gasp!) NOT sticking slavishly to the book!