Important Negative Spoilers Request

[claresbuk]

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Hi everyone

I'll start by saying that sadly I have to agree with all the comments 
made so far.  My husband and I stayed up for an hour or so after the 
film dissecting it and I think most of the things we came up with 
have already been covered.  I'll just add a couple more that annoyed 
us.  

When Ron, Fred and George turn up in the Flying Ford Anglia and Harry 
asks why they've come, we would have preferred it if Ron had said 
something along the lines of being worried as Harry hadn't replied to 
any of his letters.  We just found the, "to rescue you" line a bit 
surprising, as it didn't make any sense how they knew Harry needed 
rescuing and to say a little bit more wouldn't have added greatly to 
the running time (time that could have been regained elsewhere).  

Secondly, why did they have to mess around with Arthur Weasley's 
lines?  I was looking forward to hearing about his collection of 
plugs or asking Harry about electrickery, but instead he asked what 
the purpose of a rubber duck was.  We just felt it didn't work as 
well as JKR's original words and seemed a really pointless change. 

It's funny how film critics seem to prefer this film to PS/SS as 
Chris Columbus has been brave enough to use his own imagination more 
and not stick so rigidly to the book.  Although I enjoyed the film, I 
came out feeling a little disappointed.  I found the changes in PS 
easier to understand, but I think it's going to take several more 
viewings of CoS to accept the changes that have been made this time 
around.  I'll have to take my Mum to see it as she hasn't read any of 
the books and it's sometimes refreshing to hear the views of someone 
seeing it who doesn't know what every last word of dialogue should be.

Those things aside, generally I thought the casting of all the new 
characters was excellent and the scenes that ran pretty much as 
written in the books worked really well.  There were many things that 
made me jump or scared me enough to make me sink lower into my seat 
and many things that made me laugh out loud.  

We went with a couple of friends and I insisted we all sit through 
the credits.  They were all glad I made them stay, although we were 
the only people left in the theatre.

I've written more than I intended to!

Clare