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Ok, considering I've seen the first ever publich showing of Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets I'll give an unbiased review.
Not being a fan of the Harry Potter Movies, I toddled along to the first showing of this movie at my local UGC Cinema and sat down and thirly enjoyed this movie, but not in the way that I would enjoy something like the Lord of The Rings or Spider-Man. Of course Harry Potter's target audience is of a younger age so I can see how I might not have enjoyed it as much as a slightly younger audience, but to say the least it is a lot better than some of the crap that is fizzled out these days.
Crap this is not and a year on the main characters are a lot older, taller and voices broken. Many of the returning cast return and some dont. Kenneth Branagh plays a wonderful part of this cocky guy who seems to think he's adored and well he is. He was one of the better bits in the movie. I was sometimes phased by Rupert Grint's Ron. He isn't that great an actor, but he could play his part okish. I guess the scenes he played a scary person in weren't convincing enough for me, but kids should get a good laugh out of him more than I did. I suppose you can't hold it against the kids as they're just young and learning the actor trade.
The SFX were impressive, especally the character of Dobby. He was well great. I couldnt tell he was CG by his bad creation, but through the fact there was no way they could have done it otherwise. In fact the CG character of Dobby is very similar to the CG Asgard in Stargate (speaking of textures) was like which speaks well for Stargate. The CG Spiders were incredibly creepy. Not being too scared of Spiders, they kind of made me jump. I felt by body tense up as the gave case to Harry and Ron, which is a good thing because not often do I find myself doing this in movies. The person I had sat beside seemed pretty scared of the spiders as well.
John Williams score was very much like his original score with old themes returning and some of the music sounding like music from his Indiana Jones scores. I found myself whistling the main theme for most of the night and on occassion not realising I was doing it until someone else pointed out that was 
This movie certainly had better action sequences and was a lot more action orientated I found myself clenching up at points as they were tense. The story wasn't too difficult to understand and the film was a lot shorter than I expected. I had thought it ran for three hours when it was more like 2 1/2. Although in some cases I found that you had to have seen the 1st movie to understand some of what was going on. The only thing that annoyed me was that the cues in the Foyer were too long and I couldnt get an ice cream and there was some little toddler crying down the front row for a few minutes mid-way. Why bring a toddler who's gonna forget about it the next day? You may ask this yourself.
I'd give it 8.5/10. But I am not a fan of these movies and am not the target audience.
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The first part of LOTR is the slowest, it begins to kick arse next.
11-07-2002 08:15 PM
Can KC go to any other showing? Probably not til next week
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