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Title: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Year: 2004
Reviewed: June 14, 2004
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This one was difficult to review.
I loved the books (still do). And no matter how derivative they may be, and they are incredibly derivative, I still flippin' loved them. Regardless of the contrite subject matter J.K. Rowling did everything in the first books brilliantly, and I am honored to call myself a fan.
I give Harry Potter the Prisoner of Azkaban a FOUR COURSE MEAL review.
This movie is great, dark, and sinister. You can quibble (however, I prefer to quarrel) all you want about the plethora of information that was or was not left out of the movie, but this was, by far, one of my favorite films in the series.
VIEWER BE WARNED: there is a great deal of subject matter left out of the Prisoner of Azkaban movie. You may well indeed not see your favorite scene, or chapter, from the book in the film, but still… Prisoner of Azkaban had more depth of character, more sensitivity, more grim dread, more magical wonder, than the first two films. This, I do believe, is mainly in part to the new and more mature direction of Alfonso Cuaron.
Well done… boys and girls.
It just so happens that the fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is my favorite one in the series. Coming in at a little over 730 pages it will be a marvel and a shock if Rowling and her well-paid gaggle of artisans can do the next movie any kind of justice.
Good luck, and keep it going.
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