Not all reviews are good ones..

[Annalisa Moretti]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Barb <goalieracer at y...> wrote:
> True it is a movie....and I was NOT expecting a
> re-read
> of the book....but to me the magic of the first two
> movies was missing...(and I am not referring to spells
> etc) It just seemed like any other movie...with
> nothing
> of the specialness that I loved in the first two
> movies. I was able to lose myself in the first two..
> not this time...
> This movie was choppy..it did not have much a flow to
> it....The one thing I did enjoy was the enchanted
> ceiling in the scene where the students were sleeping
> in the great hall...

See, I completely disagree. To me, the first two movies were as 
magical as an old smelly gym sock. The only thing magical was the 
acting. They were boring and overly precious. 

I have major problems with scene deletions in PoA, but I can do 
nothing but give my most grateful thanks to Alfonso Cuaron by making 
Hogwarts and the wizarding world come to life. For the first time, I 
felt like I really was there, and not watching a movie. He didn't oh 
and ah and pee his pants over every little magical thing we 
encountered - they were THERE, and his treating them as just 
average, normal things was what made them perfect. Like the guy 
stirring his drink at The Leaky Cauldron, it was just a part of the 
scenery. And I also feel Cuaron eeked out superb performances from 
all of the cast.

Still, I would like to grab him by the shoulders, shake him 
violently and ask him, "What oh what happened in the Shrieking 
Shack?"

- Annalisa