ich bin ein auslander

The Chamber of Secrets must be where they locked up the editor. You could have left half the movie on the cutting room floor, and this would have been great. Cut every single lingering close up on one of the kids’ faces, and all of the ponderious overexplanations and you’ll have shaved a good hour off the movie. When you go out of your way to setup a major plot device early in the film - in a fairly clunky way, I might add, so even the 8 year old next to you is saying “hmm… wonder why they told us that?”, then you bring that plot device in near the end of the movie, do we really need a 5 minute scene re-explaining the plot device? Perhaps so since 4 hours and 50 minutes have passed since the first introduction

I’m being pretty harsh. It wasn’t that bad. The first one was considerably better, but the first hour and change was actually pretty good. And I could have watched Branaugh all night. He made this one..

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