Near the end of this one, Albus Dumbledore (Richard Harris, in his last screen performance) sternly notes that Harry and Ron have broken at least a dozen rules in the code book of their school, Hogwarts, and then gives them a special award for service to the institution. Rowling, inhibit this movie as it did the first Potter film.
Their presumed demands, and the hovering spirit of Harry's creator, J. My fellow critics and I may occasionally fault a movie for departing, in detail or in spirit, from its literary source, but the grousing of a few adult pedants is nothing compared to the wrath of several million bookish 10-year-olds. Columbus (who is also an executive producer of the films) has faced the unenviable and unusual challenge of adapting books most of the audience will have read closely and recently. ''Sorcerer's Stone,'' while far from a great movie, was good enough.
Columbus, once again working with the screenwriter Steve Kloves and a cast of talented children (especially Emma Watson, who plays the brainy and intrepid Hermione) and grown-up British luminaries, has acquitted himself honorably. Cuarón also directed a superb adaptation of ''The Little Princess.'' Cuarón, whose most recent film was the moving and irrepressible teenage sex comedy ''Y Tu Mamá También,'' may be the perfect man for the job, though parents worried about an unrated, sexually explicit ''Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'' should remember that Mr. Radcliffe remains smooth-faced and wide-eyed, his voice (like that of Rupert Grint, who plays Harry's pal Ron Weasley, and Tom Felton, as the odious Draco Malfoy), has begun to break, and he speaks in the unmistakable, awkward tongue of adolescence.īut ''Harry Potter and the Onset of Puberty'' may have to wait for the next installment, when Alfonso Cuarón takes over the franchise from Chris Columbus, who directed this episode and its predecessor, ''Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.'' Mr.
For the audience, a similar shock arrives much earlier, the very first time Daniel Radcliffe, the young English actor who plays everybody's favorite English schoolboy wizard, opens his mouth. Potter or the Famous Harry Potter) discovers, much to his amazement, that he can speak the slithery, sibilant language of snakes, which is called Parseltongue. ABOUT an hour into ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,'' Harry (more often referred to as Mr.
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