An excellent adaptation. Some loyalty was missing though.

Rating: Null/10 (27 October 2002)

I had once started reading the book when I was in sixth grade, the beginning was pretty boring, so I couldn't go on. When I heard the movie was coming out, I went ahead and read the rest of it, I finished it about three weeks before the movie came out, and i must say, i was pleased, that I went ahead and read the four books. I went to see the movie about a week after it came out, and it was also very pleasing. I liked the fact that Chris Colombus directed, instead of Spielberg. All the characters were very well acted. The kids were all brilliant, especially Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, all the teachers were well portrayed, especially Snape, and they also did a great job with my favorite character from the book, Hagrid, played by Robbie Coltrane. The visual effects were well created. I think my favorite scene is the Quidditch game, I like all the shots they took from the air, and the scoring of the film was the best thing in the movie. Nevertheless, they missed out some parts of the book that were important. For example, Harry was pretty confident in calling Voldemort by his name, and in the book, he always says "Vol, I mean, You-Know-Who". Hermione also says Voldemort's name once, and according to the book, she was afraid of it as well. They also left out the whole story with Norbert, the dragon, and they do not show the reaction of the students for the 150 points that Harry and his friends lost. Apart from those little things left out, this was a very good movie, and I don't understand all of the bad publicity they're throwing to it. I'm looking forward to seeing The Chamber of secrets. 9/10.