I was very excited about seeing the film and even though I knew the story and knew the ending I still clung to every word that was being said and it was like saying hello and good-bye to an old friend and I was sad to leave the cinema seat that I had sat in for two hours.

Uncle Vernon is very angry by what he thinks is Harry's disobedience and using magic as well that he puts up bars and says Harry will not be going to "that school again". Next you see a flying car with none other than Fred, George and Ron Weasly in it and they rescue Harry by pulling the bars off with the added bonus of making sure that Uncle Vernon ends up in the bushes below Harry's window.

Then, strange things start to happen and some of the students, a cat and a ghost start getting petrified (frozen with terror), no-one knows what or who is doing it. Harry keeps hearing a voice but he tells no one at first this voice seems to be coming from inside the walls of the corridors and keeps moving around he hears it just before the petrified victims are found. The students are then told the story of the Chamber of Secrets by professor McGonagall. It is said that only Salazar Slytherin's descendent can open it. Harry Potter, they all find out, is a Parsel-tongue which means that he is able to speak and understand snakes so nearly everyone thinks that Harry is the one who has opened the Chamber of Secrets because that is what Salazar Slytherin was well known for. Harry then finds a diary which is enchanted and the story gets even more strange.

The "Basilisk" near the end is quite frightening too, well it was for my children who are 4 ½ and 2 ½ but once I had reassured them they were OK with it. I must just add that my daughter, the younger of the two, is absolutely besottted with Dobby the house elf (special effects created) and kept on asking where Dobby was!

The main facts were kept in and I think that Harry actually calls his owl by her name "Hedwig" this was one thing that annoyed me in the first film as it was so obviously forgotten.

This film was directed by Chris Columbus and the screenplay was written by Steve Kloves and I think that these two did wonders to stick as close to the book as they did. I know that they can't follow the books exactly and I very glad that I enjoyed this film more than the first one like I did the books as this gives me hope that the third one, which just happens to be my favourite story of them all so far, will be great too.

I do recommend this film to anyone and everyone but as a PG the very young should be watching with an adult but as I said I think it is a family film anyway. If you haven't seen the first film I suggest you watch that first but it wouldn't be the end of the world if you watched this one first.