A Harry Potter fan reveals the TRUTH

Rating: Null/10 (18 May 2002)

Oh. Yeh. OK. I've read the books 2 or 3 times the way through and have all of them. I've seen the film 3 times [little bruv has it on video] and I STILL think it's just a bad film. I'm sorry to all you fans of this but i would only give this film 3-4 stars. And those are for the special effects. Yes, the special effects are great! I loved the Quidditch Match where the people are flying around [except when D. Radcliffe appears again] and the CGI was brill.
But the acting was a TOTAL let-down. I have said I've read all the books 2 or 3 times and Harry was TERRIBLE! He's supposed to be laid back and easy-going but Radcliffe isn't. Sorry Daniel if your reading this. He is as stiff as a pole and as soon as it's Christmas and Harry runs out in his pyjamas and round glasses (OBVIOUSLY commercialised, in the books Harry doesn't have round specs and the (cr@p) toy manufacturers have now started to refer to them as 'trademark specs', probably because they are easy to make in plastic) he says 'Happy Christmas Ron' and my mind drifted to some B-Movie romantic where they're just gonna leap on each other and kiss or summit. Daniel was so subdued in it all the time he wasn't convincible, and when he says 'I... didn't know' about his dad playing Quidditch I thought OMG. In the books and a PROPER film he would have said 'I didn't know!', stating the fact instead of being unconvincibly shocked. Please. He spoke his words so posh and pronunciated (he's from LONDON goddammit!) that he wasn't laid-back and easy-going AT ALL!
To the other characters! Ron and Hermione were mostly great, but Ron is a bit too amazed sometimes, especially by the Invisibility Cloak, and Hermione speaks just too posh sometimes as well. They all have a knack for stating the obvious, 'I think the troll escaped the dungeon' (never, it's just walking infront of you). Harry does it a lot, mostly. Malfoy is just weird, he's not quite right... The adults were brill though, with the exception of Snape who seems quite nice actually and his sarcasm doesn't work, when he refers to Harry as 'our new celebrity' then I just burst out laughing. Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane) was by far the best actor in the film, with Dumbledorwe and Mcgonagal close behind.
So I would like to say that if you have never read the books by all means go see it but if you have you will be DEEPLY dissapointed.
And they never name Harry's owl, Hedwig.