Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets (DVD)

...up to the release of Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix DVD next month I have decided to review the previous films in the series. So this is number two in my series of reviews - Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets (2002). As I sat waiting for the second instalment of the Harry Potter film franchise to start, I kept thinking "Please be better than the first film" (I have a feeling my husband was thinking this too!). Yes I had enjoyed the ...
...In this film we see Harry and his friends return to Hogwarts for their second year where another plot is brewing to bring the evil lord Voldemort back to his former power. But this plot not only endangers Harry but all the pupils at Hogwarts. However on this occasion my apprehension was slightly less justified as I shall explain. From the very opening of the film you know this film is going down a darker path. The familiar orchestrated theme returns ...

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...to see the most recent Harry Potter film at the cinema, we thought we would refresh our minds in terms of the second film as it seemed so long since we had seen it. 'Chamber Of Secrets' is the second film in the Harry Potter series and it is based on the book of the same name, although as with most films it is not an exact replica of the story in the book as time constraints mean that this is not possible. I will say straight off that if you want ...
...he was born to play Harry Potter, as he closely resembles the mental image JK Rowling conjured up in her books. Emma Watson is excellent as the fiesty Hermione Grainger, and completing the trio is Rupert Grint as Harry's best friend Ron Weasley. They are joined by Richard Harris (Dumbledore), Alan Rickman (Prof Snape) and Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid), although there are some new cast members this time round, and the most entertaining has to be Kenneth ...

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Two Disc Widescreen Edition) [2002] was originally sold for £24.99 but can now be found selling on Amazon for £11.97. PRODUCT INFORMATION: (for Amazon edition) • Region 2 encoding (Europe, Japan, South Africa and the Middle East including Egypt) • PAL, Widescreen • Number of discs: 2 • ASIN: B00006FMGF • Catalogue Number: D023592 • Aspect Ratio: 2.35 Wide Screen • Available ...
...ABOUT THE FILM: The first Harry Potter film saw Harry find out he was a wizard. He sucessfully started his path to becoming a fully trained wizard, meeting and once again defeating the darkest wizard of the age who is determined to destroy him. In this film Harry once again battles against his deepest fears and his darkest enemies. Harry must endure the suspicion of everyone in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry when sinister things start ...

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...skip this part. PLOT Harry Potter last year (in the first book) found out he was a wizard and went to Hogwarts school of witch craft and wizardry and now at the start of the film is on summer holidays and looking forward to leaving his Aunt and Uncles an returning to Hogwarts for the Autumn term. He is a little upset by the thought that none of his new friends have written to him but he still can't wait to leave. One evening, whilst his Uncle ...
...that he cannot disclose but Harry has his heart set on returning to Hogwarts and will not take Dobby warnings seriously. 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 ...

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...informed me that the new Harry Potter film, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", was finally out at the cinema. A phone call from my dad while I was at uni told me that I was to take my sister and two youngest brothers to see it when I returned, but sadly I couldn't wait, and traipsed down to the cinema in Cambridge with my friends a few days after it opened. When seeing it for the second time, this time with a 7 year old, an 11 year old and ...
...faces, but new enemies for Harry and his friends to conquer. This film is not for arachnophobes: frequently throughout the film we are treated to glimpses of spiders scuttling out of the building, and there is one scene with giant spiders, which terrified some of the smaller children in the cinema. Not my little sister though - she's tougher than that! Dislike of snakes is another reason to stay away, especially with the size of the snake (well, ...

emmorticia 18.12.2002 (18.01.2003) · Read full review
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...a house elf called Dobi, Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry to study year 2 of 'how to be a wizard'. The school resonates to the usual comings and goings, new pupils and staff, and all the usual events that typify your average wizards school. But something's afoot and when strange messages start appearing on walls foretelling of the opening of something called 'the Chamber of Secrets', the staff are a little too concerned. ...
...on from the previous year's Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone, The Chamber of Secrets (CoS hereafter) has a lot to live up to. While the first film may have left many unimpressed, to others it was a magical adventure that managed to faithfully stick to JK Rowling's original novel. Can a second bite of the cherry ever manage to match up to the first? Apologies in advance but I'll be making comparisons between the two and no doubt be leaving ...

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...have made the film of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets even half as good as J K Rowling's second book in the HP series. You see that's the ultimate power of the written word, it can spark the imagination like no movie can ever manage. Even in these days when the power of the computer is awesome and you can generate all manner of marvels and make real the most amazing of dreams on the screen, there's nothing quite as wonderful as the imagination. ...
...the door, for despite them, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is without doubt one of the films of the year, a certain box office smash and a superbly realised version of the book - it's streets ahead of the relatively twee and simpering first film, and is an altogether much darker and more exciting affair, genuinely gripping you throughout, such that there's absolutely no way that you'll realise that the 161 minutes have actually passed by ...

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...a preview of the latest Harry Potter film is already becoming a bit of a November tradition. This time, our evening cost £110 for a meal, film tickets and refreshments at the cinema. So was it all worth it? Read on… Last year, three of my children were huge Harry Potter fans and the other three of us knew little about it. The first film converted us and even I had read some of the books by now, with The Chamber of Secrets being my favourite, ...
...to the magical world of Harry Potter and we were soon thrust into the main part of the action, with little pre-amble. Well, with a children’s film lasting two hours forty, you don’t really want a slow build up! The basic plot of this film is centred around our hero, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), of course and his best friends, Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson). As they return to Hogwarts School for their second ...

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There's a catch-22 to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. If you haven't read the book you won't have the faintest clue what's going on, if you have you'll be annoyed at how much is cut out. That said, the makers do a good job of introducing all the major characters quickly and smoothly. If you've read all the books backwards you won't want to sit through a lengthy exposition, nor do you want to be thrown in cold if you're unfamiliar with the ...
...get very peculiar indeed. Harry Potter's guardians, Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon, are hosting an important dinner party, and their despised nephew is warned to stay in his room and make no noise whatsoever. It's therefore not a good time for Harry to discover a strange, excitable creature bouncing up and down on his bed. This turns out to be an elf named Dobby, who has come to warn Harry that he will be in grave danger if he goes back to Hogwarts, ...

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Harry Potter is back , and this time he is about to start his second year at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But there's just one thing ? Why is Dobby the house elf so concerned about Harry and why is he telling Harry he will be in serious danger if he goes back to Hogwarts ? Watch Harry Potter and The Chamber Of Secrets to find out! Harry Potter and The Chamber Of Secrets was released in the United Kingdom on 15th November 2002. The ...
...my favourite Harry Potter movie. It was also my favourite book out of the whole series. I enjoyed the first film (Philosopher Stone) so I was quite excited when this movie was released ; and this film is so much better than the first! I think the main difference between the first movie and this one , is how the three main characters , Harry , Ron and Hermione have all grown up! I prefer the actors 'grown up' as I find they're not so annoying and ...

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...is a big mistake. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets after the mess of the first movie had a lot to prove. A task that was going to made still more difficult by the fact that it’s an adaptation of the weakest of the series to date. The book lacked the charm of the original and rising sense of darkness of the subsequent instalments. With the same director at the helm (Chris Columbus) and no major cast alterations, the scene was all set for another ...
...film begins, as will all Harry Potter films, with out eponymous hero being terrorised by his revolting relations the Dursleys. His owl is confined to his cage, he is forbidden from practising any magic and even worse he has received no word from his school friends all summer. Poor mite. Then just when things can’t get any worse, a masochistic House Elf named Dobby turns up to protest that Harry must not return to Hogwarts School of witchcraft and ...

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...of an 11 year old Harry Potter fan means that you have to go and see the previews! Oh how I suffer!! It was with great excitement on both our parts that we arrived at the cinema on Saturday! My son had been running around in excitement for the whole day! So, how would the second film match up to the book, and the first film? A little background first, for those who haven't yet entered the world of Harry Potter (shame on you!). Harry is an orphan, ...
...Dobby is here to warn Harry that he will be in great danger if he returns to Hogwarts. Dobby goes to great lengths to discourage Harry, including dropping a fresh cream pavlova on the heads of Uncle Vernon's guests. Uncle Vernon locks Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) in his room, but he rescued by Ron (Rupert Grint) and his brothers Fred and George, in a flying car! Harry spends the remainder of the summer with Ron's family. This year, Ron's little sister ...

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...preview screenings of the latest Harry Potter movie. Now I have to say when I went to saw this movie I was not looking forward to it as the previous Harry movie left me untouched on any level being to me as the movie felt like a it was going by the numbers and I could not engage with it on any emotional level at all. If I had written an op on it it would have gotten a three for its prettiness and Alan Rickman as Snape. So as you can understand seeing ...
...me. The Plot Harry has spent the summer with his awful guardians the Dursley’s. He is a bit worried as he has received no mail from his friends and the Dursley family are being particularly vicious in their attitude to Harry. The situation starts to get worse one night when he gets an unexpected visitor in the form of Dobby the House Elf who has come to warn Harry not to go back to Hogwarts. If he goes back he will DIE!!!! In fact it is Dobby that ...

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...upon which I would see Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. My love for the Harry Potter films undoubtedly stems from my love of the book series. I had read every book before I even knew there was going to be a film, and although I anticipte every Harry Potter film greatly, it is the books which remain all important. One of the most vital elements of the films therefore, in my eyes at least, is how faithfully they reproduce the world of the ...
...happenings do not bode well. Harry is hearing voices, and when several pupils are attacked, it looks like Hogwarts may have to be closed. That is, of course, unless the mystery is solved before the attacks get any worse.... In keeping with the books, this film appears immediately a lot darker than the previous one. The politics of the wizard world are now being introduced to us. Lucius Malfoy, the father of Harry's playground nemisis Draco, introduces ...

jammy_mint 18.11.2002 (06.05.2003) · Read full review
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...anticipated films of the year, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets probably needs no introduction, but for the sake of completeness, it's the second in the series of planned films based on J.K. Rowling's massively popular Harry Potter books. The first film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, released last year, is the second most successful film of all time (after Titanic), taking £620m at the world box office. As far as the story goes, ...
...of the previous film), with Harry living with his foster family in Surrey. His foster family treat him like dirt, and he's desperate to get back to Hogwart's again and see his friends. However, one evening while his family is entertaining an important potential business client downstairs, Harry is visited by Dobby, a 'house elf' (small, green, flagellant, CGI), who, a slave to a household who he refuses to mention, warns Harry not to go back to Hogwart's ...

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