Monday, July 16, 2007

Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban (released June 4, 2004)

This was most disappointing of the whole series. The director Alfonso Cuarón decided to depart from the feel of the previous movies. For example the students rarely wore their school uniforms and instead wore contemporary clothes. And scenes such as the opening sequence where Harry blows up his aunt. In the book it was sad, fiercely angry and somehow funny but in the movie it missed this subtle humor. In his quest to be dark he missed some of the intriguing complexity of all of the characters.

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