Review: Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban

Originally posted by COTTON MOUTH
I did not like this film. It was boring.........!!!!!

Really? That's too bad. Why did you think it was so boring?

cotton mouth?....U TOLD ME U THORGHT IT WAS KOOL!!!!!!!
SHAME ON U!!!!!!

Hypocrites. 😠

this movie was unusually good for its genre. it was such a charming little gem. The only problem is that nothing in the end gets resolved fully.

lol/

THIS FILM GAY...........-45
BU7LLSYHIT

this film was gold.
I really don't think this film is homosexual.

I've seen the first two of these movies. To me they sucked. Very boring and the story line was confusing they did things senslessly without explaining and stuff like that. I hate it how it's a banwagon and ppl tht havn't read the books go and say ut was such a great wonderfull movies just becuz of its damn special FX's
I've no intention on seeing the 3rd movie

Originally posted by BingaBonga
It seemed like a lot of stuff to me to the point that a friend, that went to go see it with me that hadn't read the books, was completely confused and fell asleep.

I fell asleep during the 2nd one and did read the books.

hmmm the movie wasn't half bad. I think i would have been more into the HP series if i was bout 12 yrs younger and LOTR wasn't in my life.

Whoa havent been to KMC in ages.
Yeah hp3 did tend to drag a little, but it was a step up from the prev. two which i was fairly disappointed with. As in most cases the book is better than the movie.

ok this movie was very cool but i wish is was like an hour and a half longer! they left out so much...bummer. i don't think couron should have changed the scenery so much. the hole scotland thing was cool but the castle was too different.

well it is a hommo movie.

I thought it was ok but they skipped a lot, and wasnt Harry suposed to get the Fire Bolt during chrstmas instead of at the end?

Originally posted by Stealth Agent
I've seen the first two of these movies. To me they sucked. Very boring and the story line was confusing they did things senslessly without explaining and stuff like that. I hate it how it's a banwagon and ppl tht havn't read the books go and say ut was such a great wonderfull movies just becuz of its damn special FX's
I've no intention on seeing the 3rd movie

How many people, that you know personally, have said they liked Harry Potter because of the special effects?

Did you know that atleast 1/2 of the movies screenplays today are adapted from books?

I don't read, and I'm not on the Harry Potter "bandwagon", as you put it for the special effects. I enjoyed the first two movies because they were fun, simplistic, easy to follow, CUTE, and above all things, entertaining. That's just my story, and I don't want to be lumped in the dumb sum you mentioned.

I didn't enjoy three, because I couldn't appreciate the dark turn it was taking. Alot of the cuteness/appeal worn off with it. The story was very flat, the acting and lines were a little contrived, trying to usher in the impending doom of the situation at hand. All it ended up being was a little more than a dumbed down prison escape movie where the middle of the movie is played all over again in the 3rd act to an ending people saw coming a mile away. If you go back in time to fix something, you already know it's going to be all right in the end.

The directing that is being heralded is nothing spectacular, either. Putting everything in a pale midnight blue hue, and zooming in and out of shots is nothing shocking, or original.

That's my take.

What did you expect? All movies like Harry Potter do that, thats what makes it exciting.

love the dark and dream like element the movie had, suits it perfectly. hopefully mike newell will give gof a similar texture.

^ i agree with BOP. I don't think GOF will be as dark as the third but towards the end it will be because of

Spoiler:
voldemorts return which isgonna be so cool, wormtail cutting off his hand..EW

Personally, I loved the feel of the first two movies. They had a more "magical" feel to them. I did like the third movie, however, I agree that the different director definately changed too much of the feel that you had from the castle, and he didn't get the new charachters established enough to have any kind of emotions about them. Also, I took my husband to see it (he hadn't read the book) and he was SOOO confused during the explaining of Sirius actually being a good guy. The new director skipped over WAY too much inoformation in order to keep the movie shorter. The first two movies at least tried to explain a little more.

And yes, I did hear that they are filming the forth movie already.

I liked this movie way better than the first 2 HPs. I'm one of those few people who think the shorter the movie, the better. If a movie is longer than 2 hours, it better have good reason to be, otherwise they're putting in too many unnecessary scenes, the dialogue is being spoken to slowly, or whatever. This one had the right pace and I hope he directs future HP movies too.