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Good movie but grossly overrated

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Now I can't compare this to the books and I don't plan to. I feel as if comparing an IP to a book, which is a lot longer and can go into far deeper detail is unfair and I feel as if it's only fair to review it as itselfWith that said, the film has a lot of redeeming qualities. The set design is beautiful, costume design great and it explains how the world in which it takes place in works. The visual effects don't really hold up compared to modern standards, but are still done very well for it's time. The story itself is just purely alright and the acting from the children and adults are good. But the dialogue could use some work. Now, The ending is the largest reason why I can't give this film an 8. As they venture to get the sorcerers stone, they use their skills and knowlage that they learned along the way to make their way through. Hermonies used her knowlage of creatures to get them out of the Devil's Snare plant, Harry, as the seeker of the Griffindor team, grabs the key to unlock the door to the next room, and Weasley using his knowlage of Chess to beat the chess board and get Harry into the room with the stone. Harry gets into the room and Quirrel is the person trying to get the stone with Voldemort living inside of him as a sort of parasite. And as Quirrel attacks him, what is the thing that saves Harry? The spells he learned to help defend him against the dark arts? Nope, love, the worst and laziest excuse for a power that will stop the enemy. An interesting battle could have happened, but for me the climax was just lazy and boring. And then in the end when they award the house cup, Dumbledore got Slytherin all hyped to win but then he awards points at the last minute, I thought that was really weird. A pretty solid movie with a very meh ending

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is the first of eight in a series of adaptations of JK Rowling's beloved book series, Harry Potter. It is directed by Chris Colombus and stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, and Richard Harris.I'm not going to judge this film by how close it is to the book, as that is redundant and unnecessary. It's an adaptation, changes can be made, I got that.As a film, it's mostly very good. Some noteworthy flaws do come to mind, like some subpar acting, uninteresting parts, tonal inconsistencies, and a somewhat predictable plot.However, the aforementioned flaws are outweighed by quite a lot, thanks to just how charming and creative of a film it is. Especially how it has become a childhood dream of many, to realize that there is an entire whimsical world of witchcraft and wizardry where you are apparently the most famous person among them. To top that off, all of the characters are genuine and likable, and the story is well put together. As I said earlier, the film is very creative and this creativity element very well done.It would be criminal of me to not mention the score by John Williams, as it is one of his best and most iconic of all time (and most catchy, I might add, as it is stuck in my head hours after watching it). John Williams made the movie franchise memorable in the music department for sure.There's nothing done in the film that stood out exceptional to me, but that doesn't in any way make it a bad movie either. It's a good movie, one that I would recommend and I would see again.RATING:7/10

"Harry Potter and Sorcer's Stone" is a adventure, family and fantasy movie directed by Chris Columbus and was produced in 2001 in the USA. It is 2h 32min long. The most important characters are Harry, Ron and Hermine starred by the actors Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson. The film tells the story about the 11 years old Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) how find out he's a wizard. In Hogwarts the magic school he leans more about his past and fight with his friends Hermine Granger (Emma Watson) and Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) aganst the evil. I like to interesting story and the world of wizards and witches but I didn't like many characteristics of the many characters.

I liked all the Harry Potter movies, but the first one still remains my favourite. I remember always wanting to see this movie on screen as a child, and when I finally got the chance to see it, I enjoyed every moment of it from start to finish! Before I actually saw the movie, I remember one of my teachers reading the book to my entire class, and I just loved listening into the story. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone just brings back the most memories out of all the Harry Potter movies. The great thing about this movie was how all of the characters were introduced, and that was important because their characters will further develop later into this movie, as well into the movies that followed. The story or plot was very good and interesting to follow. It was important that the first movie starts on a good note otherwise the following movies would just struggle, and this is what the Philosopher's Stone did. Whether this one is the best movie or not is debatable, but one thing for sure is that it does remain a favourite for many Harry Potter fans: it certainly is my favourite.