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hechboy2

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Now this was my favorite Harry Potter movie.It was cool.

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Posted aug 8, 2009 5:09 am pt

diyari

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best in its serie,even so much better than the 4th and the 5th...
it got the best story line of all and it reveals so much,very good special effects,very good sound effects,and really rocks.

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Posted aug 2, 2008 6:09 am pt

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And here he is again! Sheep! What are you doing? Stalking me or something? LOL! LMAO!! Anyway, this movie is the second-best Harry Potter movie I have ever seen. Like the fourth one, the effects, acting, and plot/storyline was very good. But I...
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And here he is again! Sheep! What are you doing? Stalking me or something? LOL! LMAO!! Anyway, this movie is the second-best Harry Potter movie I have ever seen. Like the fourth one, the effects, acting, and plot/storyline was very good. But I still say the fourth one is the best I have ever seen.

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Posted jul 27, 2008 12:16 pm pt

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I'm not a big Harry Potter fan, actually I'm barely a fan at all but still this movie was pretty good. I didn't like it that much though because of some of the cheesiness and not that good acting but still okay.

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Posted jul 13, 2008 4:42 am pt

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The third Harry potter moive even thought must fan did not like this one, i loved it Lupin is my faviote character, and this moive just blow my mind away.

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Posted may 11, 2008 4:46 am pt

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This in my opinion is the best of the Harry Potter films. I may have been willing to rate it higher if I wasn't so anti-Harry Potter. Chances are you all just think I'm a miserable buzzkill, but this franchise just isn't worth the praise it gets.

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Posted apr 16, 2008 4:37 am pt

RaytheChameleon

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I liked it. The book was a little better then the film, but all the same, it was enjoyable. I love Sirius Black and Remus Lupin, I did like this alot! 8/10

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Posted mar 29, 2008 7:43 am pt

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Undoubtedly one of the best HP films to date, Prisoner of Azakaban is an action packed adventure filled with emotion and heart. It is really the only HP film that can stand on its own, and that is an accomplishment for the director, Alfonso Cuaron.

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Posted feb 20, 2008 1:35 am pt

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To any fan of the books this movie is a disgrace if you haven't read the book then maybe you see it the other way. But I have read all the books and Prisoner of Azkaban was my favorite book and it was brutally destroyed with this awful film! The...
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To any fan of the books this movie is a disgrace if you haven't read the book then maybe you see it the other way. But I have read all the books and Prisoner of Azkaban was my favorite book and it was brutally destroyed with this awful film! The Quidditch was killed and they got the wrong actors for some of the newly introduced characters.

With some change in actors and a better following of the storyline this could have been an amazing movie but it fell flat!

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Posted jan 20, 2008 12:31 pm pt

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Number 3 of the Harry Potter books comes to film and is the first to need a sharp departure from the book to make the story work and keep the time under the time of the final Lord of the Ring film. I do like the flow of this one best of all that...
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Number 3 of the Harry Potter books comes to film and is the first to need a sharp departure from the book to make the story work and keep the time under the time of the final Lord of the Ring film. I do like the flow of this one best of all that have come out (As of this it's up to 5) and this is the one that I think works for the screen. I'm not one for how it's gotten darker, but it does set the tone up for what is to come.

I do have a minor gripe, though it's not movie shattering, I really don't think the CG in this is as sharp as it is in earlier and the later ones.

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Posted dec 24, 2007 8:08 am pt

• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  100
  A different kind of Harry Potter movie, a better kind... It's where this fantasy series has wanted to go all along.

  by Mick LaSalle | Read Full Review »
• [+] Baltimore Sun
  
  100
  The Prisoner of Azkaban is to Harry Potter what that other No. 3, "Goldfinger," was to James Bond: the movie that takes the invention and gamesmanship of the series to a whole new giddy peak.

  by Michael Sragow | Read Full Review »
• [+] Premiere
  
  100
  Soars gloriously into fluency and magic.

  by Susannah Gora | Read Full Review »
• [+] Salon.com
  
  100
  One of the greatest fantasy films of all time.

  by Stephanie Zacharek | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Magazine
  
  100
  The most powerfully entrancing children's film in years. Of course, a true kid's classic is just as magical for adults.

  by Peter Rainer | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
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  Potter 3 is, in its heart of hearts, a teenage angst movie...Cuaron has done a masterful job of bringing off this shift in the Potter paradigm without disrupting any disruption in the established style of the series and without any pandering concessions to the teen-movie genre.

  by William Arnold | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  90
  Like the first two movies, this is loaded with computer-generated imagery, but for the first time there's a sense of dramatic proportion balancing the spectacle and the story line.

  by J.R. Jones | Read Full Review »
• [+] Wall Street Journal
  
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  The right word for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is wondersful -- as in full of wonders, great and small.

  by Joe Morgenstern | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
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  A deeper, darker, visually arresting and more emotionally satisfying adaptation of the J.K. Rowling literary phenomenon, achieving the neat trick of remaining faithful to the spirit of the book while at the same time being true to its cinematic self.

  by Michael Rechtshaffen | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
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  The best of the Harry Potter films so far, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is also hands down the scariest, and the deepest.

  by Ella Taylor | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
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  With Cuaron leading the way, Harry has burst from the printed page to soar on-screen.

  by Mark Caro | Read Full Review »
• [+] Rolling Stone
  
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  Not only is this dazzler by far the best and most thrilling of the three Harry Potter movies to date, it's a film that can stand on its own even if you never heard of author J.K. Rowling and her young wizard hero.

  by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
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  An entrancing experience for Potter fans. It's a carefully crafted, dreamy immersion in a world that feels snugly familiar even when evil intrudes.

  by Jami Bernard | Read Full Review »
• [+] Charlotte Observer
  
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  In an era when most scripts are written by committees of monkeys, hearing one man's intelligent voice is an almost forgotten pleasure.

  by Lawrence Toppman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
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  [Cuaron]'s a visionary and crafty storyteller who rewards your patience, not with twists in the plot, though the movie has its share, but with pure feeling. Deploying wit, grace, and artistry, he's whisked a kid flick into adolescence.

  by Wesley Morris | Read Full Review »