oooohh... i'll just keep this short

Rating: Null/10 (15 January 2002)

reluctantly i read the first book after my sister and mother pushed how great it was. {and i'm not a big reader} i was hooked, it was so great. Rowling is an extremely talented writer. i couldn't get enough. i had to read all of the books. and they never let me down, they were all wonderful.

i can't wait until her next book. and i've already made up my mind that i would see 'Chamber Of Secrets'
but, i absolutely dispised the movie, they butchered it. they did no justice at all to the book. there were countless numbers of missing scenes, they didn't go into enough detail, and it was hard for my fiance{whom i dragged} to follow along. i ended up having to describe the missing scenes to him just so he could get it straight. not only did they butcher the book, but they took apart a few scenes and reconstructed them. the scenes in the forest, the baby dragon, the zoo, etc. i understand that they were on a time limit, but if they want to pride themselves in staying true to the book then they need to stay true to the book, the entire reason why the movie was made was to take the book to a next level.
i'm not expecting anything great from the next 2 movies. and i'm not expecting them to stay remotely close to the books. and i hate to be crude but i think that they could have gotten better actors, to fit the roles. i didn't like the kid that played Ron, and i felt that they could've found some one much better then Alan Rickman, i love Alan Rickman as a actor, but not in this movie at all. he looked like a moping misfit from some teenage Goth party. like at any second he was going to start crying his eyes out.

overall i recommend that u just go out and read the book, because the movie inhaled profusely.