Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Movie Review

Oh, movies from THIS decennium, how I start to miss your improved cameras. But child actors and special effects aside, this is still a very good (and long) movie.

Title: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Director: Chris Columbus
Based on: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
IMDb rating: 7,4/10
Rotten tomatoes rating: 82%
My rating: Yay, the end battle was longer! The basilisk was ugly though.



This movie is so nice. The acting has improved, the end battle is a lot longer, which was one of my sole complaints about the other movie, and even though more scenes are left out this time, it's still really true to the book.

I feel pretty much the same about the movie and the book. The actors (especially the younger ones) seemed more comfortable in this movie and I like how well Hogwarts looks with the decor and furniture.

You still notice that this movie is OLD. This I noticed most (except for the technical screen stuff that I don't know sh!t about) with Fawkes and the Basilisk. I had pictured the Basilisk more snakelike and Fawkes is just less pretty than I had imagined him. (Which is a shame, because I love phoenixes.)
The casting is, yet again, very good. Especially Lockhart stood out to me.

Since I forgot most of this movie -- I watched it ages ago and never finished the review -- this review is a bit short. So, to make up for it, here's a list of animals in books I want as pets, in no particular order.

• Fawkes
• A stag
• Buttercup & Lady
• Crookshanks
• Buckbeak
• Hedwig
• Ollie
• Hazel's imaginary pet dragon
• Gwyneth's gargoyle Xemerius
• The Firebird
• A mockingjay
• Does Iko count as a pet?