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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter 2)

2002

Chris Columbus

Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Kenneth Branagh ...

6.5

75,579

Fantasy. Adventure Harry Potter is in his second year of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is visited by a house-elf named Dobby and warned not to go back to Hogwarts. Harry ignores his warning, and returns. He is still famous, although still disliked by Snape, Malfoy, and the rest of the Slytherins. But then, strange things start to happen. People are becoming petrified, and no-one knows what is doing it. Harry keeps hearing a voice.. a ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Darker and more dramatic (...) [It] may be a bit overlong and unmodulated in pacing, but it possesses a confidence and intermittent flair that begin to give it a life of its own apart of the literary franchise"	POS
United Kingdom	Lizzie Rusbridger The Guardian	"The magic of Harry Potter is as potent as ever in film. 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' is darker, funnier and finer than its forerunner 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'"	POS
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"This new Harry Potter has its flaws, but it's better, as well as darker, than the first."	POS
United Kingdom	Wally Hammond Time Out	"The franchise is safe! Columbus' second alchemical movie ups the thrill quotient to satisfy the faithful. There's more action, and it's scarier."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"An improvement on the first (...) But once again, director Chris Columbus takes a hat-in-hand approach to Rowling that stifles creativity and allows the film to drag on for nearly three hours (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Because it is based on a richer, more interesting book (...) and partly because the director shows more dexterity and imagination of his own, 'Chamber of Secrets' is a little better than 'Sorcerer's Stone.'''	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"Often the film is as monotonous and despair-inducing as three hours on an airplane with nothing to read but the in-flight magazine"	NEG
United States	Minneapolis Star Tribune	"'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' works the kind of magic that Hollywood rarely displays: It's a sequel that's better than the original"	POS
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"It doesn’t fly, this ”Chamber” at least hovers nicely a few feet off the ground for good stretches of time"	POS

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