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"Please don't stone me..."

..just because I saw Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Well lo and behold - a new Harry Potter film that continues in the fine Potter-esque traditions of being dump. It was so cheesy and feel-goody that I'm surprised Rodney Dangerfield didn't appear at the end and do the funky chicken. I dunno how accurate it is to the book, but it didn't work as a film. It was like loads of little set pieces with some feeble excuse for a plot holding it all together. I wasn't expecting anything that great, but the plot was all over the shop - only finaly coming together at the end with the Bergerac style criminal going over his fiendish plot just to make sure that everyone was clear on why and how he was doing it. Highlight of the film was Kenneth Brannagh's self-loving, smug Professor of the Defence Against the Dark Arts, or something. He was actually very funny. Rest was backwash from John Leslie's toilet.

..just because I saw Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Well lo and behold - a new Harry Potter film that continues in the fine Potter-esque traditions of being dump. It was so cheesy and feel-goody that I'm surprised Rodney Dangerfield didn't appear at the end and do the funky chicken. I dunno how accurate it is to the book, but it didn't work as a film. It was like loads of little set pieces with some feeble excuse for a plot holding it all together. I wasn't expecting anything that great, but the plot was all over the shop - only finaly coming together at the end with the Bergerac style criminal going over his fiendish plot just to make sure that everyone was clear on why and how he was doing it. Highlight of the film was Kenneth Brannagh's self-loving, smug Professor of the Defence Against the Dark Arts, or something. He was actually very funny. Rest was backwash from John Leslie's toilet.

*casts first stone*

I wouldnt even consider going to see that. But its your money i guess.

Good for you. I'm going to see it tommorrow. And it'll be class, just like the last one was.

stone em, then hang em, then burn em

You sound surprised this movie stinks

It's from a book about a little wizard boy

I went last night too with iguana, saw it in Cambridge - timing of the showing was such that most of the audience were adult, many of whom just starting laughing at this...It did ok for a while, but the script plummeted towards the end with enitrely made up hollywood scenes which were never in the book, but add another chance for all the students to cheer and smile. It's pretty much what I was expecting, very much for kids, but I can't believe the actors agree to say some of those lines..

Kenneth Brannagh did, however, rule.

Yeah, Ken Brannigans was really funny in it. I loved the way that every time he appeared, the paintings of himself would look at him and smile really smugly.

I can't say I'm all that interested in seeing Harry Potter in his latest adventures at Hogwarts school for unused Roald Dahl characters.

I'll go see it at sometime since I don't actually pay for individual films thanks to the glorious UGC Unlimited card.

fiƒi[oV] wrote:
> I went last night too with iguana, saw it in Cambridge

Ah but which cinema did you go to?

The cool indie cinema near Downing, or the hideous Warner village?

Ken Brannagh ruled in Henry V.

'Nuff said.