Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone

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”Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” is a colourful adventure movie,. dripping with atmosphere, filled with the frightful and the sublime, and …

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”Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” is a colourful adventure movie,
dripping with atmosphere, filled with the frightful and the sublime, and
surprisingly faithful to the novel. A lot of things could have gone wrong,
and none of them have: Chris Columbus’ movie is an enchanting classic
that does full justice to a story that was a threatening challenge. The novel
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by J.K. Rowling was muscular and vivid, and the danger was that the
movie would make things too cute and cuddly. It doesn’t. Like an “Indiana
Jones” for younger viewers, it tells an excellent tale of supernatural
adventure, where colorful and eccentric characters alternate with frighful
stuff like a three-headed dog, a pit of tendrils known as the Devil’s Snare
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and a two-faced immortal who drinks unicorn blood. Terryfying yes, but
not too much–just in the right measure. Three high-spirited, clear-eyed
kids populate the center of the movie. Daniel Radcliffe plays Harry Potter,
he with the round glasses, and like all of the young characters he looks…