Absolutely wonderful!

Rating: 10/10 (23 November 2001)

I haven't been so in love with three 11-year-old kids since I was ten-years-old myself (and that was a very long time ago!!) I don't think I've ever been in love with a gigantic man like Hagrid, nor have I loved a school. But I loved all of them after reading the four novels and didn't think I could love them more until I saw the movie. While I heard others say that they were apprehensive about what "Hollywood would do to the story," after seeing the previews and trailers for the movie, I didn't think it would disappoint me. It didn't. I was even more in love with Harry, Ron, Hermione, Hagrid, and Hogwarts when I walked out of the theater than when I walked in ... so much so that I missed them and went back to see the movie again two days later ... and again four days after that. Everyone who had anything to do with bringing to the movie screen J. K. Rowling's first novel is to be congratulated. And that includes Alan Rickman, who was the astonishingly nasty Professor Snape. I can't wait to see the second movie when it comes out.