Fair, but over rated

Rating: 6/10 (26 November 2001)

The first Harry Potter film is certainly not a bad movie, but also certainly not the cinematic triumph that dizzied critics have been calling it. This film will obviously never live on as the "Wizard of Oz" as one national critic gushed.
The film follows the first Harry Potter book, also somewhat overrated, relatively well, but fails to make concrete some of the tensions that the book did so well.
Those who have rated this film a 10 on this site are obviously 9-year-old Harry Potter zombies, as no thinking movie reviewer could in any good conscience include this film with any of the all time classics...