Terrible Terrible film

Rating: 1/10 (23 November 2001)

How on earth did this get up to the lofty heights of an 8.1 rating?
I have never read the books, but went to see the film on the back of a good rating here, and many critics saying how good it was. This film was awful. I'd give it a 5/10 for reasonable sets, costumes, effects and making me laugh (twice). I actually voted it as a 1/10 though to hopefully give some more realism to it's rating.
The quidditch game is pathetic. I thought we british invented good games, you know tennis, golf, football, etc. If it's a good game, we invented it. JK Rowling supposedly is british, but judging by this poorly thought through piece of crap she's gotta be american (or worse).
The ginger lad gets praised for "the best game of chess ever played at hogwarts" or something, and yet we get to see none of the game other than him making the worst possible first move available to him. An untrained chimpanzee could have guessed a better move. Out of the 20 or so things he could have done how does this master-chess-boy make the worst possible move???
The plot is terrible and full of holes, the biggest seeming to be: Why the hell didn't the badguy use his knowledge to get past the dog earlier? He'd known for half the film, but still only just gets there before Harry who only learns at the end how to bypass the dog!
I thought no matter what that the film is at least choc full of top quality actors and no matter what it will therefore be at least "ok". How wrong I was... None of the good actors get anything more than tiny bit parts, and mainly even then they act way below standard - but what can be done with this script?
All in all, don't see this unless you are a fan of the book, or have some money & time that you absolutely must waste.