It could have been WAY better....

Rating: 5/10 (17 November 2001)

***************WARNING, WARNING, WARNING!!!!!!***************** !!!!Contains spoilers!!!! Now before I start, I want to tell you that I'm a crazy Harry Potter fan, I've read all 4 books multiple times and was waiting anxiously for this movie to come out for months. I was sadly dissapointed. I know a lot of people loved the movie, even critics... but I found it lacked so much from the books. I know you're all saying:
"Well, it's impossible to put every single detail into the movie, and besides, it's already 2 1/2 hours long!" But I have to tell you, I wouldn't have mind if it was 5 hours long if it would just have had more of the books in it. SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!
It starts out fine... dumbledore's coming down the street with his put-outer... and so on and so forth (I'm not going to tell you everything!) but then it gets all messed up. No Mrs. Figgs, no Piers, an abrupt leaving of privet drive, and you know what the worst thing of all is?? Hagrid says the "Harry your a wizard" part all wrong! I won't tell you how though..... Anyway, moving on....
Once they get to Hogwarts, it starts getting better... but things happen in the castle that aren't supposed to. They get lost in all the wrong times and places, time seems to leap in great bunches, almost no classes and... oops giving to much away....
Well... it soon gets obvious that Quirell's the bad guy, even to people who haven't read the books and I, like many other people have a big problem at the end involving something that Hermione does, or well is "supposed" to do... won't say what though...
Don't worry, I liked many things in the movie too. The Quidditch match was amazing and the invisibility cloak looked really real... speaking of real, Fluffy was incredible! I liked the slober... Oooh and other effects were cool too but lacked an amount of magic that the book brings.

Well anyway, over all, I'd say if you're a huge Harry Potter fan, and you know every aspect of his life, you may not enjoy the movie as much as those who won't know what to expect. I'd give it 5/10 or **1/2 on *****, whichever way you want to rate it.
Thanx for your time! Bye