I like your review and agree with it wholeheartedly. I, too, know the books inside out, but the fact that just whoWormtail, Moody, Padfoot and Prongs were and the fact that they wrote the map even, was noted all around me in the cinema I saw this in. Whispers of "How did he know it was a map?" were being hissed in my ear by my friend who had not read the book, when Lupin mentioned the map to Harry.
I was disappointed overall. Like you, I loved the feel of the film and the boys doing magic in the dorm was one of my favourite scenes, and Buckbeak - wheeee! But we could have done with another half an hour, mainly exposition and fill-in, and I'd have been a lot happier.
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Date: 2004-09-01 08:55 pm (UTC)I was disappointed overall. Like you, I loved the feel of the film and the boys doing magic in the dorm was one of my favourite scenes, and Buckbeak - wheeee! But we could have done with another half an hour, mainly exposition and fill-in, and I'd have been a lot happier.