A wonderful beginning to a fantastic new fantasy saga!

Rating: 10/10 (4 August 2009)

11 year old Harry Potter (Daniel Redcliffe) was a troubled orphaned kid who's parents died when he was a baby and now lives with three horrible relatives known as Cousin Dudley (Harry Meling), Uncle Vernon (Richard Griffith) and Aunt Petuna (Fiona Shaw) as he feels more like a slave then a relative. Of course a large friendly giant-like man named Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane) brings him an important message from a special school for wizards and witches called "Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardy" where Harry has special powers of magic and was born a wizard. Now he enrolls in the school in a magical world unseen by any normal person where anything can happen, he meets up with two fellow students named Ron Weasley (Rupert Grin) and feisty Hermoine Granger (Emma Watson) as they befriend him. Along his way during his first year he meets Professor Dumbledore (Richard Harris), Professor Snape (Alan Rickman), Professor McGarnagle (Maggie Smith) and even bully Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton) as there's some secrets from the past that Harry must try to figure out including a mysterious object hidden in the school called "The Sorcerer's Stone" which is said to have great powers.
Brilliant and faithful adaptation of J.K. Rowling's first book of the ever popular Harry Potter series. Director Chris Columbus has brought the imaginative book on the screen in a successful way with superb acting even from the supporting cast like John Hurt and Warwick Davis. The special effects even the creature effects are quite good but the story is quite compelling as it fulfills the beginning of a fantastic fantasy franchise.