Prisoner of Azkaban: Fans' Reviews


Please note that the reviews below are individual, and do not reflect the views of the general public or The Pensieve.

Name: Nikki
Positive/negative: pos +
Rating: 10!
Review: I thought it was quite good - loved it!

Name: potter262
Positive/negative: neg -
Rating: 2
Review: I, personally, was extremely disappointed with the 3rd film. I'm a HUGE (and I mean huge) fan of the books, and this version just left out way too much! If someone is going to make H.P. movies then it better stick to the books. There are many reasons I don't like it, here they are:

-Ron was a complete joke. He wasn't their as Harry's best friend, he was a gag. Harry's friend wouldn't always crack jokes. That was his SOLE purpose in this movie.

-I know we can't have Richard Harris as Dumbledore, but I certainly wish we did. The new one was like a hippy, not like Dumbledore at all, and seemed a bit sarcastic. Dumbledore would always laugh at something like, "Alas...Earwax" but he wouldn't say "did what?" It might have gotten a laugh, but he wouldn't have said that.

-Okay, let's get this thing straight right off the bat. I'm a Quidditch NUT! I'm making a fan site devoted to Quidditch only for Pete sake. They left Quidditch out. Okay, so you say "Well they still had that one Quidditch game." Sure they did. The music for that one Quidditch game was 2 minutes long, and about 1 minute of that was Harry falling off his broom. They never had any of the other matches, or the Quidditch cup. COME ON!

ADDING THINGS IN

-The Knight Bus head. What was the point of that? You could barely hear what it was saying because of the blasted music and it's extremely thick accent. There was no purpose.

-In the Leaky Cauldron, just before Harry walks out of his room, a tired witch knocks on a door and says "Room Keeping." When a blast of wind comes out at her, she closes the door and says, "I'll come back later." Hold it, was that supposed to be funny? It didn't seem amusing to me in the slightest. No point in being in the movie.

-While I loved the Hippogriff ride, I still have a quip about it. Way too long. They could've shortened up the ride and added more things in from the BOOK.

-The animal noises in the boy's dormitory. What was the point? It might have gotten a few laughs, but it served no purpose other than that. I feel you shouldn't have to put in about 50 jokes, because Harry Potter is not a chalk-full-of-jokes book.

-Ditto with the tap-dancing spiders thing. While I thought it was hilarious, it shouldn't have been in there.

-Why did Draco send that bird to Harry with the stupid drawing of him on the Quidditch pitch? Incredibly stupid.

BAD CHANGES

-Hagrid's hut is NOT do you hear me WB NOT down a steep ravine! What was the point of that, to give everyone an extra scenery view?

-During the time turner part, Hermione is watching herself from the woods. Then she says, "Is that really how my hair looks from the back?" She would NEVER EVER say that, at least in book 3. Hermione knows how important it is that they aren't supposed to be discovered. She'd never almost blow her cover like that. It wasn't funny either.

-When Snape calls Hermione an insufferable no-it-all, Ron remarks (in the MOVIE) he's got a point you know, while in the book JK made it clear that he would defend her. Why would they so drastically change that-it wasn't funny to me, just stupid.

-Dementors don't swoop or fly. They walk. Not soar. All right, they don't really walk, they glide...ON THE GROUND! They would have never flown around Harry in the pitch, or swooped down on Black and him. Ugh

-The ending was the worst ending I'd ever seen to a movie in my LIFE. So Harry gets the broomstick, KNOWING that it came from black (wrong) then soars up in to the sky going, "yay, la de da, tra la la, happy happy happy"
Then it freezes. I was ready to scream when it ended and I CERTAINLY didn't clap.

And now you know why I hate it!

Name: Ahmed
Positive/negative: pos +
Rating: n/a
Review: I liked Harry Potter 3 so much, I wonder when the 4th is coming, all of the films are great - I can't stop watching them.

Name: Betsy
Positive/negative: neg +
Rating: 5
Review: It didn't stick to the book enough...but I guess it was still a pretty good movie.

Name: Sweetey92
Positive/negative: pos +
Rating: 10!
Review: I absolutly loved it! I also think that Harry and Ron are much better looking than in the 1st & 2nd. They look much more mature in the 3rd.

Name: Sarah
Positive/negative: pos +
Rating: 9
Review: I LOVED the movie!!! I thought it was excellent and I can get extremelly picky about good movies. I only found a few little problems with it:
1) Lupin was supposed to tell Harry (Daniel), Hermione (Emma) and Ron (Rupert) that he was one of the four people that wrote the Mauraunders' Map.
2) He was also supposed to tell them that his nick name in school was Moony.
3) He was finally supposed to tell Harry (Dan) that James, Sirius and Peter learnt to be animangus after they found out that he was a werewolf (please excuse my spelling i'm really bad) and it took them until their 5th year to transform at will.
4) Lupin was supposed to hold exams where they had to run an obstiacal course and concour (spelling again) Kappas, Red Caps, Grindylows and Boggarts where hermione (Emma) came out screaming that see had seen McGonagall and that she had told Hermione that she had failed everything.
5) The last that I can think of for the moment is that Sirius was supposed to send them a letter on the train home by a tiny owl. The letter would be his Permission note for Hogsmeade and that Ron (Rupert) could keep the tiny owl (as his "RAT" ran away to Voldemort!)

But over all it was just fine!

I was so looking forward to the DVD too!

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