Here are some comments on the third Harry Potter movie.They're from a few american magazines and my personal impresions.
" Third 'Harry Potter' soars with spirit and special effects that would make any wizard proud.
Harry's green-eyed soul in all its comical, touching glory is what this Potter adventure is about.
From the opening scenes of Harry in the purgatory of Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon's house, director Cuaron and his screenwriter, Steve Kloves, place you behind this growing boy's spectacles with an ease that is ticklish and mind-opening. The perfect slapstick timing, the droll performances from Richard E. Griffiths and Fiona Shaw (as Vernon and Petunia Dursley), Harry Melling (as their son Dudley) and Pam Ferris as another awful relative, Aunt Marge, and the offhand virtuosity of the special effects contribute to making this introductory sequence a coup. But the key to its success is Cuaron's intuitive genius for putting himself on an adolescent wavelength (as he did in the vastly different, sexually charged Y Tu Mama Tambien). "
Is it just my impresion that a porn movie director shoudn't do a Harry Potter movie?!
" The most important new character, seedy Professor Lupin, played with miraculous warmth by David Thewlis, loved Harry's empathic, generous mother Lily and troublemaking father James, and takes Harry under his own ragged wing. Lupin instructs his pupils on how to defuse the power of "boggarts": shape-shifters that assume the forms of their victims' worst fears. The young wizards learn that they can undercut the boggarts by re-imagining their private phobias in ridiculous shapes and then shouting the magic word "Riddikulus!" Lupin later teaches Harry that he can deflect the soul-draining kiss of the dementors if he hangs on to a vivid life-affirming memory and pronounces a white-magic incantation. Yet positive or creative thinking doesn't always alter a harsh fate. Harry's parents are pertinent examples, and so are Black and Lupin. "
The Baltimore Sun
I don't know what to say.A lot of critics say Harry Potter 3 is better than the first two.Yet polls allover the internet show the viewers are thinking otherwise.One of the polls I'v seen shows that out of 10 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban gets 6.1.That's quite pathetic.Then an a poll whear you could give it from 0 to 4 stars, 28% gave it 0.I personatly gave it 2.
" Among the criticisms leveled at Chris Columbus's Harry Potter films (2001’s Sorcerer’s Stone and 2002’s Chamber of Secrets) were repeated attacks on Columbus and screenwriter Steve Kloves’s slavish allegiance to the letter and law of J.K. Rowling’s brilliantly sprawling wizard universe. The faithful cheered the literary exploits of Harry, Ron, and Hermione brought to Technicolor life, but critics bemoaned the sometimes stiflingly verbatim "no detail left behind" doctrine. This time around, neither camp has room to complain, as Alfonso Cuarón’s adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban soars gloriously into fluency and magic. "
I object! This time the other cam has a wright to complain!
" Azkaban is an adaptation worthy of Rowling's marvelous creation—a chapter that spins the story to ever more thrillingly dark, treacherous heights. "
Sarah Brady
" Unlike American movies such as "Spy Kids," where the young actors dominate most of their scenes, the Harry Potter movies weave the three heroes into a rich tapestry of character performances. Here I savored David Thewlis as a teacher too clever by half, Emma Thompson as the embodiment of daffy enthusiasm, Alan Rickman as the meticulously snippy Snape, Robbie Coltrane as the increasingly lovable Hagrid, and Michael Gambon, stepping into the robes and beard of the late Richard Harris as Dumbledore. "
And in conclusion...
Is "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" as good as the first two films? Not quite. It doesn't have that sense of joyously leaping through a clockwork plot, and it needs to explain more than it should. But the world of Harry Potter remains delightful, amusing and sophisticated; the challenge in the films ahead will be to protect its fragile innocence and not descend into the world of conventional teen thrillers.
The Chicago Sun Times
