Frightening...

Rating: Null/10 (4 March 2002)

...but not for the reason you'd think! As one of the friendly people who sells you your tickets when you come to the theater, I worked day shift the morning Harry Potter opened. Imagine the pit in my stomach when I came to work and saw the immense crowd planted by the doors. At 9:30 AM!!! As someone who'd also worked through Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Austin Powers 2, Shrek, Pokemon (1,2, and 3), Toy Story 2 and several other biggies, Harry Potter was an experience all unto itself for the entire 2 months we had it.
A couple of days later, I took my cousin and a couple of her little friends to see it. I've never read the books and I'm not even going to go into the whole controversy. The visuals were awesome, the performances were incredible all around (especially by the three young leads), but the story didn't really hold my interest, especially given the 2 hour 45 minute time length, which was just too long. Especially for a film mainly geared toward kids. But my little entourage enjoyed it, so that's all that mattered.