Good individual movie, bad next to book

Rating: 8/10 (12 November 2005)

This movie, by itself, is a good movie. But if you have ever read the books then it is just terrible. There is so much left out that Rowling gives to the reader that Columbus takes away. Anyone that has not read the book could tell you that the stuff left out is just details and fluff but a for a reader knows those are what make the Harry Potters so great. The movie is just a spectacular action/fantasy movie, but the book is a story about students at a school with real plots and problems. Yes the effects are good, and the magic is exciting but the feeling that the characters are real is lost. The little fights with Draco Malfoy, the teasing Harry about the danger of Quidditch and other little occurrences that make you believe they are real people and not just movie characters.