Chesterton's Observation
I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.


Barry Plodder and the Commander of Kazhakastan


Well, this in no way is going to be a funny-bunny review of the Potter that is Harry. And I am not a Potter fanatic. I liked the book, and enjoyed the graphical beauty in the movie.
Went yesterday (the 1st) though. Its going to be very objective though, as if I am going to apply the scientific method on it.

Harry Potter III - The Prizoner of Azkaban

I made an earlier booking for three (2 college friends) at the ostentatiously expensive Sree theatre at the ever-so-popular Sathyam Complex to avoid the hassles associated with going for current booking.
Having had read the books earlier, and an extremely forgetfully long before, I had a great trouble grasping the story initially, with regards to what happens and why it happens, but as the movie progressed, I was able to, well, understand a bit more better.
Acting: much more mature and hence much better. Potter gets finally freed of his childishness and so does the Weasley. Lupin (played by David Thewlis) does an amazing role and so does Sirius (when he appears). The rest of the characters are the same though.
Story: the story has been a bit truncated and moddedhere and there, but the focus points of the story have been well worked upon. Kudos to the director Alfonso Kuaron for being so judicious, though, as Krits had mentioned, some errors were absent-mindedly introduced (like that of Potter practising magic in the muggle world.
The movie does seem a bit more gloomier and shadier than the previous two installments. The magical sky above the main hall in Hogwarts is much better now. And it has worked out for the best, and whatever preconceptions that I had, were served properly.
Graphics: undoubtedly, the best part. Amazing work done in that department. They are so fluent. They seem to blend in with the movie.I especially loved Buckbeak, the Hippogriff (for the uninitialted - a horse with an eagle's head). Everything is so fluid, amazing work.
The flight by Potter on that creature too was amazing.
The Maurader's Map has been excellently done, just what I had imagined.
The dementors, too real, though I didnt imagine them to be flying and to be so big.
The one odd part was the squeezing of the magical Triple decker between two London Double deckers: looked very artificial.
Looking forward the 4th movie and the 6th installment of the book.
Rumor has it that the current three actors - Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint have played their last roles with this movie. Will miss them though. Daniel Radcliffe, well, has characterised Potter the world over.