An excellent illustration to the book

Rating: 7/10 (10 December 2001)

There have been some truly excellent reviews, so I just wanted to add a few strokes which the previous people might have missed.
The Director swore to stay close to the book and he did that. Too close in fact, so to those of us who are familiar with the book and see movies as an art form in itself it looked like a series of excellent illustrations with moving characters in them (like illustrations in all the magical books should be :) I was curious how it would look to someone who had NOT read the book (yes however hard it is to believe, but such people do exist), and I found one. Her reaction was: "It was a very pretty cartoon strip".
And finally the Quidditch (?sp?) Match was perhaps a bit too long and had too much influence of G. Lucas (not that either are necessary bad things - it was very visual).
GO SEE IT (if you haven't yet), but do read the book first and try to get it on the biggest screen there is around).