Harry Potter, as the name of the movie tells, is the hero of this film, and its future followers. To a point of annoyance, at times. The entire world seems to revolve around this young boy, and his doings, and even if he faces dangers, he and his...
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Harry Potter, as the name of the movie tells, is the hero of this film, and its future followers. To a point of annoyance, at times. The entire world seems to revolve around this young boy, and his doings, and even if he faces dangers, he and his friends always find a way out. (Mary Sue-type of characters really come to mind, here...). I am not a fan of Harry's, and not afraid to admit it.

Yet the movie is beautiful, and visually great. The story is sweet, innocent in a way, and leaves a warm, fuzzy feeling: a boy who thought he had nothing but his miserable life is suddenly Somebody. The weight is a bit too much at times, since everyone seems to know more about his life than he does, but Harry has a lot of support coming to him.

The movie's theme could be about finding your own place in the world, and thus, finding yourself. Harry does just that - while he accidentally stumbles upon a great matter of secrecy, revolving around the Sorcerer's Stone, that is in a way directly tied to his past.

The scheming that begins to take place pretty early on in the movie is rather interesting. You can try and guess who is responsible for what - and why - but there are no guarantees that you will be right in the end. Never trust the obvious answer, the movie seems to try and say.

Many of the plot turns are convenient, and not very surprising, but still there is some feel of newness to them. The world beyond the story is one of magic and astonishment, and will no doubt enchant generations to come.

I don't read any of the books,but I still like the story.This movie is made by Chris Colmbus which I like his movies and they picked a great cast for all of the movies.It was so cool.

This movie is so great it is the start of a great movie series but the only thing wrong in it is that in some parts of the movie there are some boring parts in it.

The book was great but this film in the politest term possible sucked. Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint were both largely unconvincing and seemed out of touch with the characters they were playing. The real stars of the movie were Tom Felton...
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The book was great but this film in the politest term possible sucked. Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint were both largely unconvincing and seemed out of touch with the characters they were playing. The real stars of the movie were Tom Felton and Emma Watson, who were both stunning in their portrayal of Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger respectively. I shudder to think what this movie would have been like with out these young actors who really gave this movies it's atmosphere. Yet is still seem very lacklusture and I could only bring myself to give it one and a half stars.