Venom and Ire and a brief note about Snape

[Felicia Rickmann]

Many here have expressed their dissatisfaction with CoS but I doubt they can
come close to the sheer spite of one critic in a British newspaper.  The
critic, it seems dozed off, because CoS is too long, as JKR is a control
freak who, the critic fondly imagines, really spent the entire film
breathing down Chris Columbus' neck.

Draco is (quotes) a *nasty smirking mini-Nazi *, * played . as a one-boy
Village of the Damned * ; Lucius is a shampoo advert in a corset, and Daniel
's voice is *funny * like Hugh Grant with one too many Adam's apples.
Maggie Smith? Cough and you'll miss her.  The film is exhaustingly
repetitive because setting a film in the Same place, with the Same cast, and
the Same villain, more than once is a Major Drawback. [cue: summary
execution for JKR and Columbus here].  Basically, the critic proposes, as
cinema is a *one-bite* medium HP is doomed, (doomed!) due to Chronic Sequel
Fatigue, the reasoning being only a year since the first film.  Oh yes, and
Lord of the Rings is doomed too, they should both be put out on TV if you
want your films in Episodes.

Well then, it seems I will have to go see CoS again, as I missed Jason
Isaacs' corset and would dearly love to see it, although I did find his cane
rather splendid... and I really did rather like the languid way Severus
Snape says Expelliarmus, like he has all the time in the world, facing as he
is, the most splendid fool in the Wizarding World, Lockhart.

Felicia
<with the merest, distant, glimpse in the direction of irony>