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Harry
Potter and the Chamber of Secrets preview
Chamber
of Secrets is “the one with
the flying car on the front” for those of us who’ve somehow never got
round to picking up J
K (does it stand for “Just Keep”?) Rowling’s megablockbusting novels.
Last year’s Philosopher’s
Stone was painless if overlong, its limitations becoming more
glaringly apparent when Lord
of the Rings arrived the following month. It’s hard to imagine
a different result this time around – especially as early indications
suggest the film runs off-puttingly close to the three-hour mark. Chris
‘safe hands’ Columbus is back at the helm, backed up by the same scriptwriter
and creative team as before. On-screen, the kids and adults are back on
board with the notable exception of Zoe Wanamaker, who bailed out citing
stingy wages.
Word
is that Alan Rickman may be about to follow suit – which would be very
bad news indeed considering how he singlehandedly kept the first one
watchable for non-aficionados. This time he’s joined by new faces
Ken Branagh, Jason Isaac, Mark Williams, Rik Mayall and 24
Hour Party People’s superb Shirley Henderson, though the trailers’
main selling point is something called ‘Dobby the House Elf’, a mournful
computer-generated goblin who looks suspiciously like a not-so-distant
cousin of Gollum, Rings’ very own mournful computer-generated goblin…
21st
October, 2002
For the full
length review please click here.
by Neil
Young
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