This Alfonso Cuarón-directed chapter is often considered a favorite for folks who otherwise don’t care for the franchise. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) AFP PHOTO/MARTYN HAYHOW (Photo credit should read MARTYN HAYHOW/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images The actors are promoting the latest film in the Harry Potter series, 'Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban,' which will premier in London 30 May. Radcliffe (Harry Potter) Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) and Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) pose at a photocall at London's Liberal Club 27 May, 2004. LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM: The three main lead children characters from the Harry Potter films Daniel. At the very least, Chris Columbus deserved a special Oscar for casting this entire saga pitch perfect from the start. That’s another example of Hollywood learning the wrong lessons from a blockbuster smash. The mystery is (obviously) kids stuff, but the film works as a refreshingly stand-alone story which didn’t feel the need to offer an entire saga’s worth of loose ends. Even so, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Ruper Grint nail the core characters with able support from the likes of Richard Harris, Robbie Coltrane, Maggie Smith and Alan Rickman. This table-setting chapter is a remarkable example of efficient character introduction (three of four main adults, Hagrid, Dumbledore and McGonagall, appear fully-formed in the prologue), and the sheer inexperience of our young actors puts the “burden” on the elder pros. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

Even with an overindulgence in hormonal hijinks, this one still works as a visual differentiation while Tom Felton’s Malfoy shines as a young man tortured by the implications of actually doing evil as opposed to merely “being” evil.Įmma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint (Photo by DMIPhoto/FilmMagic) FilmMagic Moreover, and this is not necessarily a criticism (because it works for this adaptation, but the film painfully telegraphs what in the book was a jaw-dropping plot twist. We get almost no “origins of Voldemort” material and very little in terms of Snape’s backstory, instead saving that for one long montage in the final picture.

I’m a little “biased” as they say, because this sixth film is based on one of my favorite books in the series, and yet seems to omit the very things that make the book pop.

Opening weekend: $77.84 million ($158 million Wed-Sun) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage) WireImage Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' premiere at Ziegfeld Theatre on Jin New York City. NEW YORK - JULY 09: (L-R) Actors Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint attend the 'Harry.

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