Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Reviews
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Brimming with invention and new ideas, and its Hogwarts School seems to expand and deepen before our very eyes into a world large enough to conceal unguessable secrets -- What a glorious movie.
Read the full reviewAnd among the things this ''HP'' does very well indeed is deepen the darker, more frightening atmosphere for audiences of all ages already familiar with the intricacies of the ''Potter'' landscape. (This is as it should be: Harry's story is supposed to get darker.)
Read the full reviewDarker and more dramatic, this account of Harry's troubled second year at Hogwarts may be a bit overlong and unmodulated in pacing, but it possesses a confidence and intermittent flair that begin to give it a life of its own apart of the literary franchise, something the initial picture never achieved.
Read the full reviewA fun, fantastic adventure, but, watching it, I had the sense that it could have been even better than it is. I was diverted and entertained, but never truly absorbed.
Read the full reviewMoves the franchise even closer to Indiana Jones territory, with bloodcurdling action scenes and a passel of climactic computer-generated slime beasties unparalleled in their potential ability to -- I'm quoting from both book and film here -- '' rip, tear, rend, kill. ''
Read the full reviewNothing from the book is left to wither away. That should please the vast reading audience that'll watch the movie.
Read the full reviewScenes that should have been cut are included, so as not to disappoint anyone. What could have been a small, sweet and genuinely scary film is instead a full hour too long and many millions too fat.
Read the full reviewBy the end, instead of feeling stirred to a high pitch of anxiety and excitement, you may feel battered and worn down. But not, in the end, too terribly disappointed.
Read the full reviewThe film's scary moments are too monstrous and its happy times have too much idiotic beaming, making the film feel like the illegitimate offspring of "Alien" and "The Absent-Minded Professor."
Read the full reviewA well-chosen cast helps make the wild notions convincing, and director Chris Columbus presents it all in an attractive, thoroughly watchable package. But try imagining a universe in which the Harry Potter series existed only in film form.
Read the full reviewI can't think of a movie this long that has left me so starved for a movie.
Read the full reviewBig, dull and empty -- nobody associated with this production appears to have thought hard about storytelling.
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The Metascore® designation for this movie is 63
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I dont like Harry Potter
"Once again I dont like all the 7 Harry Potter books that have been out there and all the 7 Harry Potter movies I give all the 7 Harry Potter movies Two Thumbs Down and 7 F's F F F F F F F and the score of 0 out of 100 and Please stay away from all the Harry Potter books and Harry Potter Movies Thank you"
Watch the Batman movies for the beautiful actresses in them :)
"After all the Batman movies that have been out to date , exception of Batman , Batman Forever and Batman Ilike the best , only complaint I have ; why change leading ladies every film ? Kate Holmes was a beautiful actress and worthy equal to Batman ; She had talent and grace as well as beauty , the other beautiful actress I loved watching in a Batman movie was Nicole Kidman ; I thought Kim Basinger was overated actually . The other women I don't want to review about . Especially Michelle Pfeifer , If I spelled her last name right . she was good as Catwoman , but her role as Catwoman was never done right , go new Batman ..... Hope this Joker in the next Batman movie can top Jack Nicholson as the Joker ; but Jack was the best villian to date , be it in any Batman movie or movie peroid , Jack is still the best Rkallao@aol.com"
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
"Iloved it it was brilliant. the basilik was awesome the movie was wnderfully done. to the people who think it was horible or terrible and didn't like it screw u"
3 star movie
"intreasting but teriblie over rated.I give it 3 stars."
Chamber of Secrets
""Chamber of Secrets" was a better movie than the first one. Dobby is just how I imagined. The Basilisk animation was absolutely amazing! All the actors did a splendid job portraying their charactor. This movie was done wonderfully."
Much Better than the First
"I went to see this movie out of curiosity if Potter, Weasley and Grenger had grown up and made the movie better and they did. Thanks to a more serious story and set up this is much better than the first movie."
this is stupid and dumb
"hey tbpixiedust 12 you are an idiot for the following reasons 1 you like harry potter 2 you have no scence of good movies and 3...you named yourself "pixie dust shove off and babble about harry some were else."
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