Fantasitic!!

Rating: Null/10 (16 February 2002)

I was actually rather slow as far as the Harry Potter books go. I'm an avid book reader,so I didn't get round to reading the 'Philosophers Stone' (or 'Sorcerers Stone') till a few moths before the film opened. I loved the book, and was really looking forward to the film. I wasn't disappointed. When the film started, I felt as excited as a little kid (I am in fact 22) and was grinning like a mad woman! This film bought back that kind of childish excitment I used to feel when going to see a Disney movie on the cinema. I think we need more films like this. The casting is perfect. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson are all brilliant. (Ron almost steals the show)and all the grown ups are brilliant too.It's funny,imaginative and exciting. No one should make a fuss about sequences cut from the book, because obviously they coludn't keep everything. Imagine how long 'Gone With The Wind' would have been if they'd kept everything in!
I've seen Harry Potter four times so far, and am thinking maybe a fifth time wouldn't hurt!