Boy who lived - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Reviews

This movie, based on the book by J.K. Rowling, is about an 11 year old boy wizard, trying to find himself in a new world of fame, wizards, and culture. Harry Potter, a newly turned 11 year old boy finds out he's a wizard, and is introduced into a place that he never though or new existed. As I sat down to watch the first Harry Potter book in the series of what will be seven, eventually, looking around to see a packed movie theatre, two weeks after this movie opened! This was highly anticipated, and I was very pleased with it. The actors looked like the pictures that were in my mind, and they did an incredible job. The producers and director etc, made a huge gamble on using new actors to do the roles of almost all of the child and teen characters who are in this movie, and probably the rest of the series. And, did an incredible job! They also used actors who are known to most, such as Richard Harris (Dumbledore), Dame Maggie Smith (McGonnagall), Alan Rickman (Snape), Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid)and many others. This was filled with great effects, including the many quidditch scenes, which blew my mind. I loved the second movie as well, and am looking forward to the third. This movie/book series, is incredible, especially with the movies, not in the fact that you can see it, because J.K. Rowling did such a great job in writing the first 5 of the Harry Potters. But, they are letting these kids age, seperating the movie a year apart, which is great, they will be able to look the part even more, over all, i give this movie an A. -Liz aka Firthafied282