It’s Harry
Potter Month.
Where I do mini reviews of all but one of the Harry Potter
because like hell am I doing long reviews of movies that are within the realms of 2 and a
half hours long. In fact, I’m only really doing a long review of half a movie…
OK, I’m going off a bit here but let’s just say that the Harry Potter films do
question the myth that children have short attention spans.
So where
better to start than the first movie: Harry Potter and the Philsopher’s (or if
you’re in America Sorcerer’s because... I really don’t care, the books were
written by J K Rowling in England, it’s Philosopher’s) Stone.
Released in
2001 the movie was given a $125m budget and naturally was a success, grossing
$987m in the box office, the second highest of any of the Harry Potter movies.
Just a final note before I begin, I haven’t reread the books for the purposes of these reviews, I’m judging
the film on its own merits, not as an adaptation (although for some intent, I will reference areas of the book that I remember)
