i give POA 8.5/10

it is a great film but the reason i give it 8.5/10 is because they cut so much out. i didnt feel that anyone was scared of Sirius like in the book. also i didnt like how things were changed like how harry finds out about his parents and Sirius yes it is in the 3 Broomsticks but Ron and HErmione are out side and no one else is in the rooim but Harry (In his cloak) Fudge, McGonagall and Rosmerta. also Black only enters the castle once and u dont even know it is Halloween. the film os also funny which i didnt expect. the best shot of the whole film is the buckbeak flight it is amazing and Glenco is the realy star of POA.

Quidditch was stunning if not a bit short. my other problem with POA was that they cut to much of the adult actors out with theseption of Lupin. it seemd to be rushing threw the film. saying that if u hadnt read the book or forgot some of it u would and will love it. but i also thing it is a film that u need to see more than once. which i am going to do.

then new cast ie Emma Tompson, Gary Oldman, David Thewlis are all great i am not won over by Micheal Gambon. the returning cast are great as exspected.

POA is a great film beatuifully made. i loved it although it dosent sound like it lol.

but is is great. Alfonso did a great job.

(I have already posted this in another topic..then I saw this one )I give the

film about 8/ 10 too

As I walked out of the cinema at 11.30 last night my initial reaction was ‘ooh, that was good!’
As promised in all the reviews and from anyone who has been asked, it was much better than the first two and it was darker- not as dark as I had expected, but still not fluffy pink kittens like 1 and 2.
The kids seemed a lot more ‘real’ there were little moments and one-liners that gave the film a realistic touch and the way they interacted with each other and the other kids was more than just prompts on a script.

One of the things I noticed and brought joy in to my heart was that the trio can actually act in this film and it really sound as though they are meaning it, rather than just blurting out their lines from memory.
All right, it’s not perfect, but it is still a vast improvement. Even Emma Watson seems to have a bit more emotion behind her words. (“I read it in Hogwarts………A History” Still sends shivers down my spine)
I cannot really think of much more to tell you that has not already been said in other reviews.
I would like to read a review from someone who has not read Harry Potter though, I believe it would probably start ‘nice, but I didn’t understand what the hell was going on.’ And this was very true. The basic story line was fine but the vaguely complicated - “I’m gonna kill you like you killed my mum and dad”…”no I didn’t kill your parents, he did” “but he is a rat”…”no he is peter Pettigrew”… “Who is Peter Pettigrew? Isn’t he dead?” “No he is Scabbers” “ but Scabbers is my rat!” - bit was very garbled and I think could have benefited a few more minutes reviewing the script. - Even I was briefly lost and I have read the book many, many times.
Also another boost to the ‘what’s going on –o– meter.’ Was caused by the lack of ‘Moony, Worm Tail, Padfoot and Prongs’ explanation- were these people even relevant? And what was going on with that pretty glowing Stag? Just an extra five minutes would have done...something like: “Harry, your dad was a Stag Animangus, so that’s probably why your Patronus is a stag. He and Padfoot ( Sirius) used to turn into big animals so when I turned into a werewolf I could be controlled.” – see...that would have taken 15 seconds to say and would have explained quite a bit (hmm maybe I should write the script for the next one .)

There are lots of bits from the book which are cut out which is a shame but obviously had to be done for time sake. On the upside, it has been done with care, rather than it simply being chopped up and glued back together. Effort has been put into making this film seem as faultless as possible, unlike, for example, ss/ps “where is Norbert?” “Oh Dumbledore made me get rid of him” “Oh, that’s a shame. Anyway…”

The fat lady has *thank god* been replaced by Dawn French whose, brief, appearance was excellent. Unfortunately Sir Caddogan didn’t make an appearance (left on the cutting room floor?), which was a shame.
I loved the way the scenes were literally faded in and out of – it reminded me of a silent movie which probably added to the slightly sinister tones. I also loved Buckbeak and Padfoot, at first I had my doubts about an animated Padfoot (these things look so dated so fast) but I think it still worked rather well. As for beaky…I want a Hippogriff!
The Adult actors were, as usual, on top form even though we only had brief glimpses of them. Maggie Smith literally was only there for one line.
Professor Lupin’s Kind yet tortured soul was portrayed excellently by David Thewlis, better than I had expected and although hundreds of us had hoped for (swoon) Ewan McGregor / Jude Law, I think the casting directors made the right choice with Thewlis.

I can’t really say much more than what has been said in other reviews. But a word of warning…the whole 2 hours and 20 moves extremely fast so try not to blink! I think the film could have done with just an extra 10 minutes of gentle clarification for all those who had not studied the book in detail.
Also, if you have not already watched al the trailers and downloaded all the photos onto your computers, don’t! I feel I almost ruined the film for myself because some of the best bits I had already seen (over and over again).
Bits to keep an eye out for-
1, The boys dorm sweet scene. It’s not in the book but I feel it brings a really nice ‘down to earth’ touch to the film.
2, The Dementors’ mouth! It’s a very brief shot but darn scary!
3, The photo of the Weasley’s in Egypt – I must have blinked because I didn’t register all the Weasleys in time and I kinda wanted to see Bill!
4, look out for the ‘titanic’ bit…a Chris Columbus Mickey take, or just coincidence? (either way, Kate is looking a bit rough this time round)

I hope this has all made sense. I appear to have written mostly bad stuff about the film but I still think it was cracking and will be seeing it again soon!

9/10

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Wow. This is definitely the best of the three films so far. The visuals are stunning, and Hogwarts is now one of the beautiful things I've ever seen. I can recognise the mountains and lakes because last summer I went up there to look at all the locations. One of the places where Harry and Lupin stand was the view out of my hotel room, believe it or not.

But I agree with karen_ginger, it was far to rushed and a lot of things were cut out. If I hadn't known the book as well as I do, I would have been totally confused. They just didn't seem to make Sirius as threatening as he's supposed to seem before they find out he's innocent. The Fat Lady was great, as was Professor Trelawny (if that's how you spell it).

I have to say, one of my favourite scenes was when Harry, Neville, Ron, Seamus and Dean are in the dormitory haing a laugh and mucking around. It shows they are just normal kids which they've never done before - usually it's all plot, plot, plot.

I think one of the nicest touches were the 'new' parts to Hogwarts, added in by the director. They were absolutely gorgeous, and I especially loved the courtyard with the fountain, the huge clock and the wooden bridge.

I'll definitely be seeing it again.

I disagree with KAZ, it was totally Ron and Hermione all the way. I mean, when Buckbeak was executed! She put her arms around Ron and cried into him, and Harry was just standing there like a total larry.

9/10

i would have given it 10 out of 10 but i felt that it was a bit rushed at times, like it has been said before. but some of the changes made weren't as bad as i thought, i didn't like the ending and i think that's the only bit i disagreed with. they could've put the scene where harry gets the firebolt somewhere else, then had the Quidditch Final in or something, 'cos there wasn't enough Quidditch, but what Quidditch that was in was really spectacular.

now the acting has gotten way better, and i mean that. emma watson is probably the most improved, and rupert is as great as ever, his comic timing does lighten the film, but it is nice to have funny moments in an otherwise dark and eery film. daniel is very good, much more like harry and i can only see this trio of actors getting better. tom felton is great as draco and i can;t imagine anyone else playing draco as well as him.

Robbie coltrane is one of the best adult actors in this film, he does bring hagrid alive much more in this film, with the whole buckbeak situation. michael gambon is wonderful as dumbledore. gary oldman and david thewlis are so great as sirius and lupin, they really are these characters, wonderful to see them. alan rickman is as great as ever as Snape and timothy spall as pettigrew was great to see too.

now i think that the dementors were great, 10 out 0f 10 for bringing them to life. they spent 6 months creating them & i think that they needed all that time, but the end product is just how i imagined them and when you see them for the first time, the whole cinema goes quiet and i actually felt cold... Buckbeak was wonderful, very realistic and i thought the werewolf and padfoot were great too.

now, the knight bus is probably one of the best scenes, funny and realistic. the punch scene is very good and the bit where harry/hermione go back in time is very very well done. the fade ins/outs add something to it, very good. also i have to say that the music was wonderful and added to the 'magic' and the tension and just made the film more real and scary at times. so well done to john williams for some more great music.

i am going to see this film again on friday and i am taking my bro' and my dad who haven't read the book. so i will get them to tell me what they thought and if it made sense then i will post what they said on here,

oh and i just have to say that alfonso has done a wonderful job on this film and i hope he will direct film 5,

i will give it a 8/10

loved it but so much was missed, like at the beginning it was his birthday in the book, with all the cards, i thought would be quite important as theses were the first b'day cards he ever got,

also it would have been more funny if they actually showed the bagde that fred and george made, (percy head boy badge to bighead boy,)

i also didnt like how they didnt give harry the firebolt sooner , it was so frustrating in the book that harry didnt have it and got it back the day of the match.

sirius didnt seem to be that scary and in the book so much emphasis is on how scray he was to all wizards, but they didnt really seem that scared,

i absolutley loved the way the done the whole time turner and harry seeing his dad, and then realise it was him, well done

would have beeen good if they actually told u that wormtail, moony , padfoot and prongs were actually , remus sirius peter and james, like they did in the book

alfonso did a great job , really liked how daniel, rupert and emma had progressed as actors, very well done to all the cast and crew .

And if i went to that school i definatley would be chasing around draco, absolutley gorgeous this year,

I thought that the movie was great! 10 out of 10

it was the best movie out of all of them and i was so excited about going 2 see it

i went 2 see it with my friends and we are all fans of hp

i went 2 see it 6 times !! coz it was so good
i want 2 get the dvd went it comes out and i will watch it over and over again coz it is so good

my fav part is the dementors coz they r so scary

*SPOILERS* - DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE!!!

Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban - Rating: 9/10

I watched the first viewing in my home town at 9am on opening day - 31st May 2004.

Even before the opening credits of the movie, you know this is going to be darker and definately more mature than the first two installments.

The dark and rather gothic looking WB sign is just a taster of what is to come.

Many parts of the book have been missed out, but the main ingredients are still there, which still makes it spot on in my opinion.

The reason I am not giving it ten out of ten is because there were some things I feel that should have been explained - for instance:

Prongs! You see Harry save himself and Sirius by the lake with his substantial Expecto Patronum, and you see the outline of Prongs - unfortunately the stag is not explained and I feel it should have been because it is a connection between himself and James.

Also, when Peter Pettigrew emerges it is mentioned about him being the Secret Keep for James and Lily, yet he betrayed them. But it is not explained what a Secret Keeper actually is!

Also, the Marauders Map was not explained either - not once did Lupin mention that the map was conjured by them, and their quartlet being Padfoot, Moody, Wormtail and Prongs - I found that dissapointing - but it may emerge in GOF.

Lastly, when Harry meets the Dementors on the train, you DO NOT hear his Mother screaming until right at the end, and even then it was quite lame - in the book it was really emphased that this woman was dying, yet it didn't seem that way at all in the movie.

However, the Buckbeak scenes were superb, and the acting overall was alot better than the first 2 movies. The beautiful scenery is magic in itself and you can really imagine Hogwarts being there, and being real, it's definately more believable!

Michael Gambon does Dumbledore proud, and Alan Rickman is amazing as Snape, I enjoyed his performance much more than the first 2 films.

There is definately more comedy, I was really laughing hard with the Aunt Marge scene, you have to see it to believe how funny that is - the Knight Bus scene is also hilarious, but it also gives the movie great balance, because it starts funny and then things get sirius (pardon the pun) haha.

I actually went cold while watching some parts of this film, it was aspiring and I can't wait to head back to the cinema and watch it again!

My hero's of the Movie = Gary Oldman as Sirius and Thewlis as Lupin they blew me away totally!

~Swizz~ :sorcerer:

Excellent 10/10

The best one by no doubts. There was not one part where it draggedcos I'm sure if it was any longer it would have . You were either laughing, sympathetic, awed or scared. All the parts that were supposed to be funny were being laughed out loud at.
The Knightbus was fantastically fast paced and funny. Stan Shunpike had his pimples and a great cockney voice. He seemed a little cold toward Harry but then I suppose all bus conductors are. Lol.
You tell this film is a lot more magical as soon as Harry enters the Leaky Cauldron. Witches and wizards stirring soup with their fingers moving the spoon with out touching it Percy getting his glass filled from a floating drinks dispenser and the sinister Wanted posters. The dementor on the train is a bit slow but I suppose that makes it a lot more sinister. You a woman screaming briefly and that’s it.
As soon as Lupin gives Harry the chocolate you tell he is a very nice guy even if you haven’t read the book. The part on the bridge is so emotional you can tell how much Lupin loved the Potters .As I imagined him and sounding like imagined him to. David Thewlis’s acting is astounding and is beaten only by Gary Oldman’s.
The choir is brilliant makes the school seem a bit more medieval you know. Also when I bought the soundtrack I keep playing that track. Lupin’s and Hagrid’s introduction is quite funny showing how clumsy Hagrid can be. The Quidditch was great even if was short it was stil briliant and it wasn't as always against Slytherin but Hufflepuff. Also I loved how Fred and George had a bigger part and that you can tell how mischievious they are.
I loved the Flying Buckbeak scene the music adds to the feeling of how majestic this creature is. Also when you find out Buckbeak is to be executed you look back on that scene and see how the crying Hagrid feels after the trial. Draco is so much meaner and arrogant in this one also Tom isn’t so stiff jawed now.
When Harry finds out about Sirius being his godfather in the Three Broomsticks the music is heart rendering. You can tell Hermione understands emotions better than Harry and Ron as she comforts Harry afterwards. Her acting has improved so much thanks to Alfonso.
Also Dan’s acting has greatly improved, I really sympathized with him when he is in the astronomy room with Lupin after he had his second attempt at the boggart dementor he talks about his memories of his parents and not even knowing they is they are even true.
The end of the movie the shrieking shack part is great. Gary’s acting is brilliant. The best of the whole cast. You can see the horrors he’s been through in Azkaban. You really see the hatred between him and Snape. Also the hatred between Snape and Harry more outlined.
I loved the shot of Sirius and Harry looking up at the massive Hogwarts whilst Sirius invites Harry to live with him.
The fat Lady (Dawn French) was very funny and although you only saw Sir Cadogan in the background portraits I’m sure he takes over the entrance hall in the deleted scenes as with Sirius slashing Ron’s drapes cos I know he was in it cos you see his name on the end creduts.Also looke carefulluy in the portrait scene and you see a man with a pointed green hat which has a silver slytherin Snake badge attached to it,I reckon this is Phineas Nigellus.Oh and if I'm very much mistaken they have changed Flitwick to have brown hair.
I don’t know where else to put this in my review because it is a small and minor thing but I like it. It was the ghost Horsemen smashing through the window don’t know why I like that but it really stuck with me. Padfoot and the Werewolf were brilliant; the werewolf wasn’t as skinny as I’d thought from the figure. The ending could have been better about the firebolt but it was ok cos the movie needed a bit of a happy lift. But I wanted to see Pig.lol. I promise you won’t be disappointed from the WB logo to the Shot of Harry’s face while riding his Firebolt.
I loved it no matter what anyone says.

i went 2 c poa yesterday, and it was brilliant, lived up 2 my expectations, really funny, and i still jumped when i needed 2, recomend it 2 any one of any age, fantastic

totaly wicked 11/10!!!

SPOILERS

The only thing i found wrong with it that i found was the opening scenes, i think they rushed it a bit but was still in everyway very good

they did miss a bit from the book but they they made up for it alot in the sences they did keep.

i think most peps was suspecting a Ron and Herm sorta ship but it was deffinently a Harry/Herm film BY FAR!.

also they made it so funny! they added lines in it, like in the scene where harry and herm go back in time you see Harry and herm watchin themselves with ron comming outa hagrids hut, while they are watching themselves hem steps 4ward and looks at her self and turns to harry and says: "does my hair really look like that from the back?", that made me crack up so much!! very funny film most deffinently

i have to say its my favorite and is deffinently darker. but with the scences they misssed out it is very well made up by the scences they kept.

when fred and george drags harry away in the snow when he is under his cloke was brill was sooooo funny and then later in hogsmead when harry attcks malfoy and friends, it was brillient!

in the book herm is alot more stressed and moody but i think in the film she is more layed back and deffinently not grumpy but you dont see alot of them fighting


deffently going to see again, i say they couldnt of done a better job!

Dan, Ruput and Emma have all improved, they are great the whole way through they are so much better and deffinently suited to there charecter

hop you guys like it

kaz

After waiting for 1hr in a que last night to see poa, i was extreamly excited by the time i got a seat. By the time the sceans with the dursleys had finished i was hoping that dan's acting would get better! thank goodness it did. he managed to steal all sceans from every1 else.

i'll start off with my fav bits first. the night bus was fabulous & just the way i pictured it when i read the book the 1st time. when harry got squashed on the windows i was in histericks. the quiditch match was fabulous, alfonso managed to get the weather perfect and the dementors chasing harry was so scary. my other fav bit was everything after the wimping willow attacked harry & hermione. hermione was brilliant holding on to the tree & getting flung around. the shreaking shacks sceans were creepy with the noises in the background and the werewolf lupin & sirus fighting bits were fab. oh yeh, buckbeack is amazing & draco get what he deserves twice, once with buckbeack & again with hermione (go girl)!

i did feel the leacky cauldron sceans were very rushes & i was looking forward 2c diagon ally again, but i didn't! alfonso managed to potray the dementors on the hogwarts express really well & it sent a chill down my spine.

sadly :ermsmile: i'm not too keen on the new dumbledore though, he got on my nerves a wee bit, when greating them back for a new school term.
i'm also a wee bit sad that macgonical and snape weren't in it more.

dawn french was brilliant as the fat lady, very funny.

i really enjoyed the fact that so many sceans were shot outside & glenco looked fabulous (it made me proud to be scottish)!

however, i was really sad when it ended, cause so much was missed out or changed. if you're going don't read the book before, it's best that you don't or you'll be constanly saying "what about this or that" the film felt rushed and was far too short! only 2hrs 10mins max!

eventhough i still give it a 8.5 out of 10!

any true fan will love it, dispite it's small faults.

9/10

I think its was the best out of the 3 this far.. any doubts i had about this film and the continuity to the other 2 was gone.. they did a good job of transfering directors.. the new feel to the movies is a definate improvement, more funny things that i'm sure would have gone in the books if jk had the time or maybe they were editted out..

I love the snowball fight scene.. i also through aunt marges scene was great, from the trailers it looked a tad childish and cheesy, but in the film it worked well..

i thought the quidditch scene even tho very small.. it was a great scene and i'm glad they managed to portray harry's fall and it even made me gasp.

My only disappointment is some things happened in the wrong order, the only one i can really remember was the broom at the end... the reason harry fell off at quidditch was so the added effect of sirius sending harry a so called dodgy broom was totally overlooked, least he got the broom but there was no mention of sirius sending Ron his new pet Pig..

*** Spoilers ***

I'd have to give it 9/10

N.b. Sorry it's so long, I couldn't stop once I had started

My Review of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Well I thought the film was fantastic, despite the trouble I had (I missed the beginning up to when he left the Dursleys and had to sit in the aisle, because the seating got mucked up!)However, it was definately worth sitting on the floor and I did not care that it was uncomfortable.

I agree with people that you need to see it twice to fully appreciate it, because I blinked a couple of times and missed some crucial scenes. Literally the Weasley's photo of Egypt was 2 seconds and there was no explanation to it or anything. I didn't see Bill or Charlie and can't wait to get the DVD so I can pause it.

The film did miss out quite a lot, and had been chopped up and edited quite drastically. However Alfonso didn't just shove it back together in some random way, I felt it worked very well, and included what was needed.

Firstly the kids have really really improved their acting. I don't know whether it was their maturity or Alfonso but they acted their parts, and didn't just reel off lines that had been learnt. They actually had emotion and it felt much more natural. Dan really put everything into his performance. He was so much more vulnerable and the horrors of his past really come into play. The scene where he and Lupin discuss his past, and in the tower practising the Patronus charm, really were touching, and you finally get the idea that Harry has been through a lot. In the first two films, it honestly just feels like he has had a bit of cruelty from his aunt and uncle and has no parents. He doesn't seem to be affected by this and just wanders around aimlessly. However in this one he really shows how hard his life is, and the emotion of finding out that Sirius was their friend and betrayed him is so strong.

Emma was much better, though a bit less stoppy than in the book. She even had me laughing with her hair comment 'Is that what my hair looks like from the back?' and she really has matured.
I loved Rupert so much. Seriously, his confusion about Hermione and how she kept appearing was adorable, and how he was almost praying on Hermione's attention with his leg. So cute. Though in the shack those two really did get silenced. That was okay because there was so much going on, but you didn't see any or Ruperts disgust at Scabbers being Peter (probably because of time restraints)

There was a lot of chemistry between the trio this time, and you get the feeling that they actually care about each other and also have arguments. I was slightly taken back by how much physical contact was between them. There were so many scenes where Hermione was holding Harry's hand (okay understandable circumstances), literally hugging and crying into Ron, (major ship moment) and just generally touching the guys, them putting their arm round her etc. I think it worked though. It seemed more realistic but was just strange because in the other two films there is absolutely no contact at all. Seriously all three were much more protective and close, which was believable from the book point of view, but compared to PS/COS it seems kind of overdone.

I loved the humour added to it aswell. It was lovely in places and the comments between Draco and the others worked very well. I loved Malfoy in this one and he was so much more arrogant than the others. The scene in hogsmeade with the snow was ingenious and the whole cinema laughed. I was pleased they broke up the tension and darkness of this film with light hearted comments.


The Shrieking Shack. Hmm, I'm really not sure about this. The whole scene was extrememely rushed and confusing. This worked in both good and bad ways but for example, Snape's involved just seemed bizarre. He suddenly turns up, gets thrown back in the bed and is then just forgotten. Seriously, no mention of him after that until we are told he saw the Patronus? I loved that Sirius was so desperate and angry, and that was half of the reason it was so rushed. It worked in that sense, if you understand what I mean. Lupin and Sirius were fantasic and played wonderfully by David and Gary.

They really did change the Shack bit and what happened afterwards, and I think it was more thought out in the book. However it was intense, exciting and everything that it needed to be, so I don't really have much to say negative about it.


I really did love the way they did the Time turner bit. I was always worried they would muck that up but they captured it perfectly. It was cleverly thought out and Alfonso added a couple of little extra bits that I really liked. It was probably my favourite part, along with Buckbeak. Buckbeak was brilliant, his whole part, Hagrid's emotion, the bit with Malfoy, Harry first meeting him. Everything.

I also loved the way they interacted at school. The boy's dorm bit was really nice, and showed how happy Harry was to be back at school. The general interaction between them all worked very well, with Neville comments, him getting eaten by the book, Seamus's bit with the fat lady. Perfect. And Dawn French was sooo much better than the other Fat Lady. The whole school seemed less false and much more believable that the kids were doing what they wanted, rather than being told when to laugh and exactly what to say.

It was generally more believable, for example the general Wizarding world, in the Leaky Cauldron, and there were things going on in the background, so it didn't just seem like the rest of the school were watching Harry wander around. The set was fantastic, the knight bus and giant clock, plus the whole scene around Hagrids with the pumpkins and crows, was wonderful and so realistic.

The scene transitions, were brilliant too, I loved how they used clever camera techniques, and when in the boggart lesson, you are looking at a reflection of the class, and it kind of merges into the main screen, very clever. The scenery was beautiful, really gorgeous.


I was saddened by the lack of explanation about the map and the relationship between Lupin, Sirius, Peter and Harry's parents. There were various hints to how close they were, but they weren't identified as the 'Mauraders' and I seriously don't think that people who haven't read the book will catch on to that. You see Lupin using it, but all they needed in that final scene with Lupin and Harry was a comment about the map, and an explanation of the stag. I was really disappointed that they didn't explain the animagus situation. You realise Sirius and Peter are animagus's but you don't know why. You don't realise that James was an animagus or that the stag in the Patronus represented the part of James in Harry. I've always loved finding out those two things in the book and I feel they were the only two bits cut that I really missed.

The fact that it had to be rushed in places, not through Alfonso's fault really, and how they didn't really clear up certain things, (the didn't do how the Secret keeper, and Lupin immediately knows Sirius was innocent, like as if he knew all along). This is the main reason it did not get 10/10, for I am thinking of people who hadn't read the book. It was fine for die hard fans because we didn't need explanations, but important details may be lost to other people.

Wow there is so much more to say, but I am short of writing a full length book here. The dementors were brilliant, the acting much better, the whole atmosphere much more believable, and there was a perfect balance of humour, tension, emotion and excitement. I didn't even mind that he had changed a lot because i believe it worked better on screen that way.

8/10

Well, having booked my tickets about 2 weeks in advance and managing to get a backrow seat even though there wer 5 screens showing PoA that nyt and there was a que ryt round the cinema i settled back to watch the film i'd been waiting to see for so long!!! I even took my book wit me (yes my friends did try to disown me).

The opening scenes wer amazing, pretty faithfull to the book and got loads of laughs from the crowd. The shot where u see Aunt Marge jst floating off in the background is a good touch! I wasn't sure about The Knight Bus from the trailer clips I'd seen, but i thort it workd pretty well, although my friend commented to me that she thort that the bus was being portrayed as being quite scary and she hadnt expected this (note: i didnt think the Knight Bus was scary!). I did think Harry crashing into the window twice was perhaps a little excessive?!

I think that the first half hour/hour of the film was really good, although i could comment on loadsa things that are different, but then u cant expect films to be exactly the same as the book! (However.........Dementors don't fly! They glide!)
The special effects were definately up to scratch, and i think the dementors did work really well (apart from wen they flew) as it's obviously really difficult to cum up with a way of portraying them as we only really know how they feel, not wat it looks like wen they'r around u bcos all we get is Harry's perspective in the book! So it was clever that everything froze, but im not sure if the book reads like that? I sort of imagined it more as jst having a feeling of bein chilled to ur bone, not actually being physically cold? But then that wud be really difficult to portray!

I thort that Buckbeack was really realistic and he was how i imagined him to be! The scene where Harry is on Buckbeak and flies over the lake is amazing! Also i thought that the way Harry got picked to ride on Buckbeack was really good- it was funny how everyone stepped back to make it look like he'd volunteered!

One criticism i have is that you don't see nearly enought of people like Prof. McGonagall, Snape, Hagrid etc...its really focused around Harry, Ron and Hermione.....u barely see Neville at all, and that's bad!! There was no madam Hooch at all, which brings me on to the next thing! Quidditch!!! The one scene of Quidditch was pretty cool but i deffo think there cudve bin more, especially bcos Gryffindor win! And there's a whole chapter (although short) in the book dedicated to the Quidditch final!! I think that although there are time constraints on filmmakers, it would've bin nice to see a bit more of day to day life at Hogwarts- there definately wasn't enought castle scenes and we don't get to see all the quirks of Hogwarts! The film basically misses out the whole of the easter term!

The scenes with Lupin were done well- the bit where Harry and Lupin are on the bridge tunnel thingy is sweet, u see Lupin as another one of Harry's adopted parents. The scene where Lupin leaves is also really nicely done- it captures the feeling that everyone seems to leave Harry- a theme in the books which is constantly repeated! But its good where Lupin says hes sure he will see Harry again!! (OotP!!)

The shrieking shack was interesting- the fact the shack itself was physically moving around all the time i found slightly annoying, but i think the scene pretty much captured evryfin written in the book, but like the rest of the film it was a bit fast- it swept over it too quickly. Peter Pettigrew was satisfyingly replusive! And they got the line in about Hermione being a sweet, clever girl which is direct quote from the text! The sceneb4 where the willow attacks Harry and Hermione is good- it has comedy value, but of course that doesnt happen in the book and with that time they could've added summit that was in the book!! But it works pretty well!

The ending of the film is good, i liked the shot of Harry and Sirius lying on the floor together after the dementors have gone, and all the bits with Sirius are really good! But we cd've had a bit more of him!!! The ending of the film is also basically faithfull to the book. with a few added bits so its good that they get the really important moments right. However, wud've bin nice to see Harry get the note from Sirius saying he's allowed into Hogsmeade, and when Ron gets Pig!( cant wait to see how cute he'l be!!!).

So overall, i think the film was really good although it has its faults! It's still a children's film though, whereas the book has progressed mch more! But i mean they can't really go that wrong! 2 hrs of Dan has to be good, and their acting seems to be up to scratch- definately improving! Trelawny was very funny, i think Emma Thompson did a good job! And the new Dumbledore is jst as good (his beard cd be a bit whiter tho!).

b4 i 4get........ the scene in Hogsmeade was odd tho, wat was the point in taking it upstairs? Why didnt Harry jst find out from under the table like he does in the book, and as if Prof.McGonagall wouldn't notice a door opeing by itself wen harry enters and leaves! WEIRD!

Neway....even tho iv sed loadsa criticisms it was still amazing! Visually i think it was mch more impressive (and im not jst talking about Harry and Draco!) I'm deffo gona go see it agen as an after exam treat! Just bcos its not the same as the book doesnt mean its rubbish (for example- think of hw mch was cut from LOTR!)

Well done to evry1 who was involved!!! Can't wait to see the 4th one!!

I give the film 6/10

the acting 7/10

and the specail effects 100/10
i will eplain them now

the film
the film was good but theychanged things and but thing in the didnt really stay true to the book but some things they but in were funny like ron/harry commonroom asleep and the fat lady bit and sirus saying "the tail i could dealwith but thefleas killya"

the acting
the kids were better than the othertwo films but otherwise the acting was quite good.

the specail fxs

all i have to say about them is.............bloody fantastic....... :flowersmile: :flowersmile: :flowersmile: ......for the specail fxs people




i saw it last sat but only managed to post i got my 18th birthday present 27 daysearly cos the hamster has died in the main computer and i needed the laptop for my collegework and to go on my fav site...

im boddin ofthe pc now see ya later

i give the poa 8 out of 10
it's a great movie, i can say that cuaron really did well about it but there is something missing, it doesn't reached my expectations... but all in all it's a great movie

another thing i want to add to the pro list is the sound,

they really got the music and sound right and it suited the film perfectly, such as the boggart scene when Lupin put on the music, it worked really well.

but what i found diffrent also with this film was that they put speicial music in with the type of scene like when harry and herm had just got into the past the music included a ticking clock sorta sound and again it came back when they had only a few mins to get back to the hospital wing- it really suited it well

also i found the camera angels intresting, it wasnt like befor it was alot more active and alot more movment in the camera which made the film and more bigger if you get what i mean

also with the scene changes, it wasnt like a quick cut it was like time change and scennery sweep, like when they first get to hogwarts it sort follows this little blue bird thing flying around it. and another: when the time changes from Autum to winter it starts with Hedwig flying arounf and then as she is flying trough the mountings it starts to snow lightly and then moves onto think coverd snow, it really worked on me


black outs: the black outs also wher not like cuts it was like closing your eyes affect black out and stuff

well thats all the tech side to the film i thought worked really well

thank you KAZ for mentioning something that is rarely mentioned, the music. the soundtrack for this film is absolutely amazing, especially Buckbeak's Flight sequence and all the times they repeat 'Double Trouble' several times, with different intruments. it is the main theme of the film John Williams has done a fantastic job creating this music for this film, it just brings the world to life.

:flowersmile: yes the music was fab i think the lupin teaching scene music was brill it made a difference to the film as it was quite late i was tiered so i didnt really enjoy the film probally so i need to watch the film again in the morning while im wide awake :sorcerer:

Rating: 7 out of 10 stars

Why?? I'd give it a 5 really.. But to be fair on all equal sides of the film. It's a great movie on it's own but it's not a good movie based on Harry Potter

They cut LOADS of scenes from the book. Imagine if you were watching a HP movie for the very first time and you went out to read the book later. You'd be disappointed coz' they cut a lot and you'll be totally blur about it. "Eh? This didn't happen in the movie?!" Some of the important scenes form the book were cut and I think the scene where they were explaining who really betrayed the Potters' was just too fast and wasn't really completed.

What's-a-going on?!!?! Was it me or the movie'll still be the same if it was fast forwarded.. Yes it will!! Coz' it is.. everything's rushed and it didn't feel like 2 hours and 15 mins at all.. more like a movie made for TV. Too many things were cut short. And yeah there are unnecessary scenes (look below) but the whole movie is about the storyline and that's it! Nothing more and a whole load of stuff less.

Some unnecessary scenes were in it too. Yeah they were funny but what does it have to do with the story? Like the one in the boys' dorm. What were the sweets for? I admit, they were funny but eh? They didn't stress on Quidditch much here. It is important but I'm also not overshadowed by the fact that Oliver Wood has been totally cut out from the movie. It's important because it shows, after many years.. they finally won the Quidditch cup. Fine it doesn't show much rivalry between harry and Malfoy but that doesn't mean they have to cut it out.

Music has definitely change and I enjoyed the music. Makes you feel as if Hogwarts is not a school stuck in time. There are some funky music!! Well, not funky but you get the picture. I like the boggart scene with the music and as I find the music cute...

Ahh.. Not the same ol' same ol'. For a change, it's not Hedwig. What I mean is.. Usually when they show a change of seasons and time, it's usually Hedwig flying around with his snowy white feathers (so cute!). But this time, it's a cute lil' bird.. Funny too when it hit the Whomping Willow.

Acting.. MUCH better!! I understand them!! You actually get to feel the exact same thing when the actors are portraying them on-screen. I think Alfonso did the right thing to ask them to write an essay about their characters. You can see their improvement.. They're more into their character and not Dan, Rupert and Emma playing Harry, Ron and Hermione respectively. It was much better than the first two.

Interact. No not the club the word and proper meaning. You get to see other students explaining stuff and not Hermione or the teachers. Who's that chubby black kid? Well, thanks a lot man for explaining to us blur audience. You see Seamus getting excited about the Firebolt and Neville being chomped off by the the book. It's usually about the trio and just that.

The new cast was brilliant! I love how Emma Thompson portray Prof. Trelawny. It's the exact same way I see her.. To burst into weird fits all of a sudden. Definitely one of my favourite characters amongst others she played before. David Thewlis was a great Lupin.. very cool. He certainly seemed to be the one for the role although I didn't agree on him being chosen to play Lupin at first. Gary Oldman's Sirius Black was cheeky and not the serious yet charming man he is in the books. It's like all he does is to go with the flow and doesn't mean it. But I like Sirius despite there are two different characters in the movie and the book.

OMG the visual effects were brilliant! May I just say this out loud... I LOVE BUCKBEAK!!!!! Sorry, I just do and I can't help it. Buckbeak seemed real.. like he was a real hippogriff. And he's so cute!!!!!!!!!! But really the effects were GOOD!! The dementors seemed real and I like the effect that they do make the dementors are just dead.. C'mon.. they walk past someplants and they froze and die? That's cool!!

But all in all.. It was okay.. The movie didn't jump out to me or should I say wow me like Chambers' and Sorcerers' did.. But those two were kiddie films. You can see their transformation from pre-teens to teenagers clearly visible here. Definitely NOT for those aged 13 and below...

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.. I expected too much I guess but it was still.. okay to me.

Rating: 8 out of 10 stars

On acting
The acting was really good,obviously Dan,Rupert,Emma and the rest of the cast has bloomed in their acting.Trelawney was sort of psycho..good job though.She is really what I pictured her to act.

The story
The story that you get from the movie was quite disappointing because it's incomplete.If there's a teenager who has never read the books before and watches the movie,I'll bet he/she will never get the part about the Marauder's Map...But if you did read the book,you may get a little disappointed because you know what's going to happen.Same goes to seeing the movie stills online before the movie is released!That will sort of take away the excitement of the whole story.I regretted doing that.

The scenes
It's hilarious from the beginning!I think the hilarious theme shadows the spookiness.Well,sort of.It was kinda spooky.

Music
The music during DADA was great and it's the right kind of music to make you feel more into the thing you want to do...


Despite any disappointments in any HP related things,one should never give up in supporting HP!!

YES!!! YES!!!! YES!!!!! That was amazing. I just got back from seeing PoA and just let me say it was fantastic. I saw the 1:00 screening and I'm going back to see it at 7:00 just to catch the parts I may have missed. Ron/Rupert was hallarious, he made me laugh so hard. Harry/Dan was awsome. He was so angry yet so kind hearted. Hermione/Emma was just as brilliant as ever, I really ejoyed her having more time on screen than the previous two films.

I especially was looking for the forshadowing that Jo Rowlings was talking about and I think I know what it is though I kind of don't want to say because I don't want to ruin anything for anyone. However, I can't help myself. This is only a theory and beside no one will probably read this anyway. So here goes, I truly believe that Hermione is going to be Harry's twin sister. I know, I know...for all you H/Hr shippers this would be truly awful not to mention those H/Hr ff will all of a sudden go from Aww Love to Ewww Sick but still this is what I believe especailly after seeing the film.

My reasons, the way Lupin was describing Lily to Harry and talking about how she cared about the well being of those misfortunate as himself. Look at Hermione, the way she feels about house-elves and in the film ...WARNING SPOILER... when Lupin turns into a werewolf, Hermione wants to help him and reaches for him then earlier in the film Lupin talks about how Lily especially tried to help him and was there for him....End of Spoiler.... Anyway this is why...among other reasons....I think Hermione is actually Harry's twin sister and the Grangers had adopted her after Voldemort killed James and Lily.

rating: 8/10

The acting:
As usual, they were all great. The new Dumbledore was good, but not as good as Richard Harris. And lupin's moustache?! I will say no more...

In general:
there wasn't anywhere near enough quidditch! The shreiking shack scene wasn't that great either, but the knight bus was amazing!!! I must hitch a ride on there one day!

The music:
awesome.

special effects:
they were amazing! buckbeak... i must own a hippogriff!!!! the knight bus was amazing, the dementors were amazing, the firebolt was amzing... everything was amazing!

other stuff that i dont know where to put as I'm actually stupid:
why didn't Lupin tell Harry who the marauders were? And why didn't it end at kingscross? and why can i think of nothing but Dan whilst writing this review?!

Danz_angel x

It was very good. I'd say for us obsessors, go see it like you've never read the book. The acting is phenominal especially dan. It's very good, but some key things and explanations were cut. Special effects were awesome and the music was great, John Williams does it again! I never really did see the whole teenage hormone thing except three tiny parts between Hermione and Ron. I wish Ron did more. He was the comedian! I wish they used Black coming over him in his bed. Anyway, it was good. Like I said, the actors have really grown and become their roles. And all the guys got so hot! lol. Go see it! It's really good!