Anime Forum Games Links Movies Music Profiles Survivor TV Shows After a year long delay and a death of one of the main actors, the third Harry potter film finally hits theaters. This time around we join Harry and pals for their third year at the school of Witchcrafy and Wizardry and this time it's directed by a whole new director. The same guy who gave us the sexually charged, Y Tu Mama Tambien. We receive a much darker setting and a darker Potter as he slowly starts to grow up into what J. K. Rowling threw at us in the fifth book. Harry returns to school only to find out that it's under the not so helpful eye of Dementors, creatures that will suck out your soul with their kiss. They are watching Hogwarts in the hope of catching Serius Black, the man who betrayed Potter's parents. Emotions are high and with a new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Harry may be in for more than he bargined for. The movie flows like a raging river, given no time to come up for air and at times you feel like you're being smothered with information. For running at 2 1/2 hours, it's over quickly and there isn't a moment to breathe. The kids aren't much better this time around but the guy who play Prof. Lupin, whose name I forget at the moment, and Gary Oldman deliver an oustanding performance during the shack scene. It makes me wish that those characters were in the next movie but we'll atleast get to see them once again in the fifth movie. The new Dumbledore is also good and if you didn't know that Richard Harris had passed away, you wouldn't be able to tell. The special effects are alright for the most part. The only real questionable thing is the wolf which when compaired to the likes of the Wolfman in Van helsing, comes off as a bit lacking but oh well, nothing is perfect. I also felt that maybe the whole movie was a bit too dark, there is rarely a ray of sunshine to be seen. fans of the book will notice stuff is missing but they will also notice that the ending has been completely returen by moving a scene from the middle of the book and making it the ending. It isn't that important of a scene and I can see why it might be moved to the end but by ending the movie without showing the end of the school year left me wanting something and I never got it. On a side note, Double Trouble is a decent song which has a very nice choral arrangment. Reviewed by APF Score: B-