Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

[buttercup31]

This review is for those of you who have read the books and know what’s going on. If you haven’t read the books…well, then, you really shouldn’t be seeing the movie (pet peeve).

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[buttercup31]

That actually makes even less sense. She had trepidation about the movies in the first place because she was worried about the perversion of her books. Now all of a sudden she's okay with a total rewrite? Which is strange for any author, let alone one who has already voiced that concern.

It's not like I wanted not to like the movie. Which I shouldn't even say I didn't like it; I didn't want to be disappointed with it (I mean just looking at my journal now, It's nothing but HP all over the place). Like I said, it had its good moments, some of them even great. And I will try watching it again to see if I can really move beyond the story changes, because if I can, then it would be a pretty great movie. But when I went to see it I was going to see the movie version of my favorite book and what I got was Alfonso Cuaron's version of my favorite book. It just wasn't good enough for me.

I did love how the kids were dressed this time. It was a good call by JK. Especially in the Care of Magical Creatures scene with all of them looking disheveled. That was great.

And I was thinking about it last night, on the previous two movies JK was there consulting. But we (most fans) bitched a lot about her concentrating on the movies rather than writing the books. So it might be my own damn fault!