Ouch! ldquo;Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban rdquo; is like a stab in the back. At first the viewer is shocked and hurt, then disgusted, and finally just mad.
The third Harry Potter movie is an abomination. This film is supposed to be about Harry Potter at wizard school. He believes he is being pursued by the madman who helped kill his parents but we find out that the madman is really a good guy and chasing after the man who actually betrayed Harry rsquo;s parents.
This is about as far as the script goes. We don rsquo;t fully understand why the betrayal of Harry rsquo;s parents was so bad or any of the things Harry learns about his father, leaving out the parts that were so good in the book. Daniel Radcliffe (Harry), Rupert Grint (Ron), and Emma Watson (Hermione) star.
They act well with the script they have and are not to blame for my opinion of the film as a whole. The sets are quite good, but I would have liked less computer animation and more puppet effects and stunt doubles. I don rsquo;t like the director rsquo;s choice of costumes, either.
Instead of wearing their school robes, students wear jeans and t-shirts. This upsets me because a characteristic of almost all wizards is that they don rsquo;t like muggles rsquo; (non-magic people rsquo;s) clothes, and it breaks with the established costumes of the previous movies. Why change?
The only excellent aspect of this movie is the music. John Williams is a brilliant composer whose credits include the ldquo;Star Wars rdquo; films, ldquo;Jaws rdquo; and ldquo;Jurassic Park.
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