What's the point?

Rating: 2/10 (7 January 2009)

I've read reviews for these films excusing the pathetic adaptations of the stories to film because "they are for die hard fans who know the story already". To know what is going on at all (especially in the later films) one would certainly have to have read the books. Even as kids movies they have left out so much of the fantastic novels, you would almost think that the same people who hate the books and ban them because of "satanic teachings" (HA!) produced these movies to dumb them down to the point of their own ignorance and stupidity.
The quality of film and even acting slightly increases throughout the series, but as everyone else has already stated they are RUSHED!! It is almost as though the entire cast were directed to read off their lines as quickly as possible, and at times the acting is so horrible that I almost think that I could do better with zero acting experience, but probably not.
The saving grace for me was the cast which fit well, and really saved the other stuff in a big way. Kenneth Branagh in part two was my favorite match out of the bunch.