My movie review

[shieka99 at yahoo.com]

I never got this sent before, so here it is now. Everyone's said 
everything, but I didn't think it would matter.

Okay, this is basically a messed up scene by scene things that I 
liked, the actual review and what other people I know thought about it 
will be sent in a new message. 


I went twice for starters and I have to admit, the first time until 
the Quidditch match, I didn't think it was going to be a good movie, 
but at the end I had turned that into excitement for my second 
viewing. First, I wanted to state that I had went 6 hours early before 
I could get tickets, which is at 6am. I went with 3 other friends! 
Anyway, after 3 hours other Potter fans started to show up. This was 
great and we were talking all about Harry Potter. One lady bought a 
huge thing of fries and offered some to everyone in line. Which wasn't 
tooooo many people at that time. Anyway, by the time they let us in, 
there was a HUGE crowd. Luckily for the rest of them  the theaters was 
playing so many times in so many theaters. I might also mention that I 
left in such a haste to get our group seats, I forgot my wallet at the 
desk. Luckily the girls who were right besides us gave it back to me.



****Anyway, on to the Scene by scenes-What I thought:********

-Dumbledore with the adorable baby Harry was pretty good, though I 
have to admit I didn't like the Put-outer because it looked bad for 
some reason. Hagrid crying was soooo sad. :( 

-Dudley's stomping on the stairs was great! It showed a little of how 
Harry has to put up with his family. I wanted to HUG poor little Harry 
in the closet. ;) It was so touching and I dunno why. 

-I liked the changes to the zoo scene, though they could have dragged 
it on a bit further. Dudley pushing Harry down and Harry shooting him 
death glares was great. I find Daniel has a good evil look, or angry.
Sad that the 'Burma' snake didn't say Amiga!! ;)

-I think it helped a lot when Vernon grabbed Harry by the hair and 
shoved him in the closet. It was a great touch to Vernon's part and it 
showed violence that you hardly think of in the book. 

-Harry trying to get his letters was adorable, though I think it could 
have been done differently and they could have spent more time on it.
(That is, if they could have more time without making the movie so 
long)...

-Fiona is GREAT! I loved her speech, it was sooo good and had a lot of 
emotion. If only Dan could have reacted a little more.

-Diagonally is WONDERFUL! Anyone else notice the absence of the 
FANTASTIC Diagonally music from the soundtrack? That upset me because 
I thought it fit Diagonally perfectly. I loved all the shops and 
everything. I wish they could have spent more time there.

-Gringotts... it was okay...

-I didn't really mind the changes to Ollivander's because it wasn't 
that bad. Although I disliked the corny music and lights when Harry 
recieved his wand. 

-The Flashback was disturbing, I think, especially for the little 
kids. I did enjoy the snippet but it looked disturbing.

-I think Molly was okay, not a perfect and Ginny was so cute besides 
the fact that she looked pretty young. And did anyone notice that when 
Molly shows Harry Ron, Harry looks at Ron not too friendly? 
Hehehe! ;) 

- Draco is perfect. I LOVE him sooo much!!!! He is adorable and he 
looks all snobbish. It's so cute! I especially like his accent, as a 
matter of fact, I love all their accents.
 
-The Sorting hat should have went over Harry's eyes and those weird 
things hanging from it looked silly. :p

-The portraits were really cool and I liked the ghosts. I thought 
Nick's head rolling slightly off was disturbing. ;) One of the things 
I especially liked was the portraits, I really, really liked them and 
I wished more of them had moved. 

-The common room looked SOOOOOO cosy! I want to be there right now and 
snuggle up in front of the fire....

-The little Harry scene all alone sitting in the moonlight was 
emotional. You had to smile for him!

-Tranfiguration, I was dissapointed... All we see is Maggie telling 
them off. (Maggie IS a great actor!!!)

-Nice little potions scene. Alan is perect as Snape, just a little off 
in how I pictured him, but that doesn't matter. "Our. New... 
Celebrity.." *shivers*

-I don't like Seamus at all... cute but eh.

-The flying lesson was okay...  But Neville looked bad, it was a bad 
CGI. >.< But Harry and Draco on the otherhand were WONDERFUL! H/D 
shippers... YUM! I loved Harry's little 360!!!!

- Fluffy is one of the best CGI'd! It was SO CUTE!!I want one of my 
own now.

-Ack, haven't mentioned Hermione even though I thought she was one of 
the best actors... I think she is great!!!

-I LOVE SEAN BIGGERSTAFF!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! HE IS GORGEOUS!!!!! And 
I'm alowed to love him, afterall, he IS almost my age.
I love his accent, I love his acting, I love the way he looks, talks 
and everything!!! Oh yeah, the briefing on Quiditch was good too cause 
SEAN WAS IN IT!

-Charms, I can't get: 'It's Wingardium levioosa, not wingardium 
leviosaa' (Or something like that) out of my head! It'ssoo perfect!

-The troll scene was pretty good besides the bad CGI of Harry flailing 
around. Little Daniel is SOOOO cute!

-Quidditch is my Favorite scene of all. I loved the music for it and 
am addicted to listening to it. Harry is very good. I love the whole 
setup how they all go in a circle with the 2 seekers above and Sean 
was there to. I just loved everything about this, defintely one of the 
better parts of the movie!

-Harry getting presents was... emotional and it was so SHORT. Ugh! Oh 
well, I love the invisibilty effect, it looks really good. "My body's 
gone" Hehehe!  

-Mirrior of Erised... That brought tears to my eyes. It was so sad for 
poor little Harry. Especially when he touched his shoulder. 
Even though James looked all wrong, it was still good.

-Norbert was cute, but as some people have said, it's good they cut 
out the other parts of that.

-The Dark forest. DARK forest?? Ugh! Anyway, the centaur looks so bad. 
(as most of us think so), but this was great H/D interaction! YUMMMY! 
The unicorn looked bad, liked  a stuffed toy. (As someone else 
mentioned)...

-Devil's Snare, was okay, lacked something though...

-Chess game- I actually didn't like this very much. It looked corny 
and Ron looked pretty bad. I know a lot of people thought this was 
great but I did not. It didn't look right and the music was bad.

-Forgot the flying keys: Loved this new version. It made it more 
interesting, and better besides the fact that if Harry was flying any 
longer, he could have gotten all bloodied. >.<

-The last scene. I liked it even though it was different. It was 
almost as good as the book, maybe as good. Voldemort's face was 
creepy, but I thought it was more like a snake? I found Quirrel good 
in this scene, very good! Poor Harry... :( And then the addition of 
Voldemort flying through Harry, weird! But it was okay and an okay 
excuse for Harry ending up in the hospital wing.
__Anyone else notcie that Quirrel chokes Harry and nothing happens 
to his hand? Yet when Harry puts his hand on Quirrel it smokes?__ 

-Dumbledore's spirirt seems to come back a little in this scene. I 
liked that they included the every flavored beans thing and the moving 
pictures! 

-It's so sad to see Harry go... and the photo album was a nice touch.

******If you haven't noticed, it was rushed because I had sooo much to 
cover. I missed out on a lot. However, if you want something better 
and it all summed up about what I thought, then please read the review 
I will be sending in soon.*******