Brits suffer again from Hollywood

Rating: 7/10 (23 November 2001)

Robbie Coltrane and Emma Watson are the best reasons to see this movie. Both are consistently quite good. Daniel Radcliffe gets better as the film progresses and I can see that he could be good as Harry Potter in the sequels.
Key scenes are marred due to poor special effects, esp. the Quidditch sequence, which is esp. sad because other effects are very good (for example, the 3-headed dog and the life-size chess game). The music score is also very disappointing. John Williams recycles music he wrote for both the Star Wars series and Jaws!
I have not read any of the books and suspect that this helped me to like the movie as much as I did. My friend who accompanied me has read all the books and walked out absolutely it.