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Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets (Widescreen Edition)

Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets (Widescreen Edition)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Magical Movie
Review: If you love magic, wizards, and adventure, then you'll love Harry Potter and the Sorcer's Stone. It's a thrilling, wand-raising family roller coaster that will keep you all on, until the end of the ride. It's full of action, suspense and much mystery. Though it may not be suitable for younger kids.

Harry Potter and the Sorcers's Stone is based on the best seller novel by author J.K. Rowling. The book highly resembles the movie in some parts, but may not be able to tell in others. Although many parts of the book are shown, many parts are missing.

The quilty of acting is fantastic, maybe just the way they act in England. Their acting is also made fantastic because of the wonderful script. If you like classical music, along with mysterious music that sets the background, then you'll love this movie.

The directing is also one of the best things of the movie, which is all made possible by Director Chris Columbus. He made sure that the music, drama, acting, and all of the computer graphics were great. Well Chris, you did a good job!

The movie is about a boy named Harry (Daniel Radcliff) who lives with a family of muggles, otherwise know as non-magical people. Although once he's at his Aunt and Uncle's son, Dudley's birthday party, things begin to change that no one could ever think possible.

After the birthday party, Harry suddenly starts receiving many letters for the exact place his is at that moment. Though he keeps receiving them, he is not allowed to open them.

When the letters start to over flow, Harry's aunt and uncle take him and his cousin to a little cottage far away where they can stay away from all of those letters. Little do they know though that someone is coming to get Harry to bring him to a magical school named Hogwarts, which implies nothing by the name of the school.

Harry's adventure begins once he gets to Hogwarts. He meets new friends, new enemies, and learns things unimaginable to the muggle eye. Harry Potter is a wonderful movie for the family, but contains scary moments, and some mild language.

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Not the best but not the worst...
Review: What can i say? The movie pretty much ruins the book. And I read all the hp books (1-5). But what I like in the movie is the special effects and stuff. You have to admit... it is pretty cool. What i don't like was some characters in the movie. some new actors in the movie are...well...not the best. Lucious Malfoy in the movie totally destroyed my expectation on the image. The movie is also fuzzy on the details. Furthermore, the movie skipped many important/ good events from the book. The DVD version of the movie has some intersting extras such as games and interviews which i liked.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Movie, ok. DVD extras, pretty neat
Review: The movie's not as good as the book, but when is it ever? A book's a book and a movie's a movie and never the twain shall meet. Chamber of Secrets is pretty decent considering how tough it is to adapt a book to a screenplay.

The kid playing Harry looks like Harry but he's a tad too cutesy-poo (reading the books, I've always imagined Harry to have a little more of an edge). His acting is hot and cold but it definitely has improved from the Sorcerer's Stone. The special affects are so-so but the Tom Riddle/Diary-writing-on-it's-own scene was extremely well done. Very creepy!

I'd give the movie about a 3, but the DVD gets 4 due to the nifty special features! The Dark Forest/Spider game is tons of fun and scary if you turn the lights off, the inteviews with JK and the actors are very enlightening and the deleted scenes are hilarious! It's little wonder they weren't included because they are embarrassingly comical (I dare you to watch the "What am I, Hedwig" scene and not crack up! Total cornball!).

Overall, I love the books, like the movies, and really like the DVD!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Harry Potter Flies Again
Review: I've only read the first and second novels. I liked the first much better than the second, which this movie is based upon. I liked the movie about as much as I liked the novel; I can recommend it, but it's not great. It's a bit too long, too complicated, and it has too many loose ends. There's about three characters about whom you never learn what happens to them. There are things mixed together that shouldn't be, such as phoenixes and basilisks. Mostly, it's for kids (although adults can enjoy it, too).

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Harry Potter Widescreen DVD
Review: Choose "Wide Screen" or the "Pan and Scan" version? Here is some help: For the most part in any DVD, the Wide Screen or "Letterbox" version is supposed to "PRESERVE" the aspect version that you saw at the movies. "Harry Potter" versions were probably filmed using 1.18:1 aspect ratio, but Warner Bros Pictures used a 2.35:1 aspect ratio to transfer to the widescreen DVD. This is good for the new widescreen tvs, but, this also cheats you out of this movies' integrety; whereas it deletes both the top and bottom portions of the original film. Some movies are SHOT in 2.35:1 aspect ratio, and you usually do not lose anything with those - (why couldn't they just do the 1.18:1 aspect ratio as it was meant to be seen?) For purists, it's fine for the new television monitors and tvs, but I would prefer the full top to bottom view of the actors and things that they are holding and the hand movements.

The TV or the "Full Screen" version, (Still not 1.18:1 aspect ratio), was meant to fit on a regular TV screen. Here, little portions are lost in the left side of the film. I prefer to take the little loss on the sides versus losing the top and bottom, showing clapping, wand holding, etc to be seen, so skip the widescreen and purchase the "Full Screen" version if that is what you want. Either way, the movie is a PIP!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Very Impressive
Review: You have to remember that the Harry Potter books are excelent and that you can not expect the movie to be better than the books. However i was plesantly suprised when I saw the Chamber of secrets. I remember reading this book and being kind of bored. I mean It was my least favorite of the books. This movie did a great job but I kindof thought that Voldemort tords the end could have been meaner if you know what I mean. If I were to rate the books I would say 1st Goblet, Azcaban, 3rd Order, 4th Stone, 5th Chamber. The Chamber was better than the 1st one is some aspects.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Ok. 2 stars
Review: What is this movie but a bunch of elves, dwarfs and fairys running around and killing each other over a wedding ring? It's all bad acting from the word go, and the music can't hype up what the story lacks. I have a theory on why people love these movies; they feel that because the directors and actors and writers try so hard to make an "Epic Saga of Biblical Proportions," that they (the movie-goers), must give the film makers positive reviews just for the effort. I am different. I will not give good reviews to a movie just because it's ten billion hours long. Good is good, fairyish is fairyish and my time is too important, as is yours, to be wasted on this midevil drivle. And now I will cast a spell. I call it the "I'm to influenced by movie advertising and special effects to think for myself spell." See, it's already working. Now go out and see the whole trilogy, fairy.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: sucks
Review: I just bought this movie yesterday and I expected it to be like the book. Then when I got it it was horribe possibly one of the worst movies ever. The acting seems like they are not realy scared. There is too much special efects even for spiders walking on the floor they look very fake. Hagrids acting was like he did not realy care. The only thing what keeps me from giving this only half a star is the acting of dombledoor it was superb he acts like ho realy cares for what he is trying to do. I hope the next movie will shine over this one. And for those of you who gave this movie 55555555 stars Go home to your mama

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Fine Sequel that might be even better than the original.
Review: Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets is the second of the books to be made into a movie, and in my opinion is the best so far. it's more moving and more special than the first film, and much better acted. Thanks to Daniel Radcliff and the gang for another year at Hogwards

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: EH
Review: The Harry Potter books are so good, which makes writing this review so hard. The whole movie is very sloppy(so was the first one)the problem is that they tried to throw it all together too fast to make as much money as they could off pottermania. They really needed two things to make any of the movies great.
1. They should of waited for all the books to be published before writing the script and filming. For a tighter production.
2. Hire Peter Jackson he obviously knows a thing or two about making a fantastic fantasy film.


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