[HPFGU-Movie] the UK preview?

[Schlobin1 at aol.com]

yes, the Post sounds very blase, THEY say that Columbus adhered SLAVISHLY to 
the books - HUH -- little do they know...! Here's an excerpt

As is almost obligatory for hit movies, "Harry Potter" has a soundtrack by 
John Williams ("Star Wars," "E.T.," etc.), a brassy score that the director 
plays ever louder to rachet up the tension. 

The adult actors perform admirably -- particularly the oversized Robbie 
Coltrane as the giant Hogwarts groundskeeper, Hagrid. But the 12-year-old 
actor Daniel Radcliffe -- who looks almost exactly like "The Weakest Link" 
hostess Anne Robinson -- brings a disappointing minimalism to the plum role 
of Harry. Faced with stuff that would thoroughly gross out most kids -- from 
vomit-flavored candy to a splat of dragon saliva in his eye -- Radcliffe 
routinely responds with the mildest of shrugs. 

The movie also raises the old question of whether there can be too much of a 
good thing. For all its dazzle, this first Potter film carries on for more 
than 2 1/2 hours; at a screening in London this weekend, some young Potter 
fans dozed off just over two hours into the movie.