Mind Numbingly Awful..

Rating: Null/10 (30 August 2006)

Mind Numbingly Awful..
If I was an eleven year old watching this film, I would have walked out of the cinema citing this as an insult to my intelligence. Don't believe the hype about Harry Potter as it is little more than a large cash cow that the studio execs signed up to drain as many children (and their parents) as possible of their cash.
The story is atrociously bad, the acting not much better and the special effects pretty bad. The whole plot is utterly ridiculous and packaged together in a film so dreadfully written that it should never have made it into print let alone onto celluloid.
It is extremely rare that a film, even a really bad unwatchable one makes me want to switch off before the end but I had to turn over after just ten minutes as I could not stand this utter codswallop any longer.
And yet the popularity of this series seems never ending as sad people dress up their kids in badly imitated costumes from the films so they can queue up outside bookshops in the middle of the night to purchase the latest instalment. I appreciate that Star Wars makes fans queue around the block (Ok maybe not the tiresome prequel trilogy) but at least that has some redeeming features to it that do not insult the intelligence.
Avoid this badly written claptrap at all costs!