Harry potter and the chamber of secrets.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Warner, 2002) I'm of a double mind about Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. To be fair, I may be of a triple or quadruple mind. My inner child, which went to see the movie with my sons on opening weekend, enjoyed it without reservation. But my inner critic began a running monologue as soon as I walked out of the movie theater. As a piece of movie …

…Harry nervously declare his innocence in criminal wrongdoing and his fear that he may be descended from a dangerous wizard, but there's no real introspection about his proclivity for rule-breaking, no underlying terror that his mysterious powers may come from a very dark source. The film has a chance to take a risk, to improve in fact upon the novel, but it doesn't make the attempt. It is what it is, for better or worse.