Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2 DVDs)

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Average Rating: (See all 40 reviews) Format: DVD (PG) Ships within 6-11 days At the start of his second year of his amazing journey into the world of wizardry, cars fly, trees fight back and a mysterious elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of the second year. This year at Hogwarts, spiders talk, letters scold and Harry's own unsettling ability to speak to snakes turns his friends against him. From dueling clubs to rogue Bludgers, it's a year of adventure and danger when bloody writing on a wall announces: "The Chamber of Secrets has been opened". To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione's magical abilities and courage in this spellbinding adaptation of J.K. Rowling's second book. Get ready to be amused and petrified as Harry Potter shows he's more than a wizard, he's a hero! Run Time: 155 minutes Studio: 1492 Pictures FullScreen: None Widescreen: Yes Format: PAL Aspect: 2.35:1 Director: Chris Columbus Cast: John Cleese, Kenneth Branagh, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Richard Harris, Jason Isaacs, Julie Walters, Richard Griffiths, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Warwick Davis, Fiona Shaw Writer: J.K. Rowling, Steven Kloves Producer: Chris Columbus Composer: John Williams, William Ross Subtitles: English, Arabic, English for the Hearing Impaired Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Extended: Over 16 Minutes Of Additional Scenes!, 3 IPIX 360° Tours, Spell-Caster Knowledge Game, Interview With J.K. Rowling, Gilderoy Lockhart's Classroom, Interviews With Hogwarts' Professors, Staff and Students, Gallery Of Production Sketches, 7 Challenges, EA Video Game Demo, Build-A-Scene Featurette, Spiders Screensaver, Printable 3-D Great Hall, Maze & Folding Posters, Theatrical Trailers Publisher: Warner Bros. UPC: 9325336013670

much better than the first harry potter movie, (and thank fully, little daniel radcliffe is still rather good looking in this one) the child actors all do a wonderful job in their prospective roles, and of course, my favorite character remains the wonderfully snide character, severus snape. four stars!

The second year for harry potter at Hogwarts. After an incident at home; Harry is introduced to the Wealsey crowd at their home-the Burrow. Already a year on and the films have started becoming darker. someone is targeting the muggles and ghosts at the school. But who? and the hidden chamber of secrets has been opened again, according to the legend; the heir of Salazar Slytherin is indeed back at school. Fears and suspicions are aroused as every muggle-born fears for their lives.

I loved the first Harry Potter film,and was extremely excited for its sequel hoping it could quite possibly be better than the original.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets begins when Harry(Daniel Radcliffe) meets a house-elf named Dobby who claims Harry must not return to Hogwarts this upcoming school year because bad things are supposed to happen.Of course Harry refuses to listen,and Dobby continuously tries to foil Harry from getting to school.Eventually Harry arrives to school in style.Once at school Harry meets the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher,Gilderoy Lockhart(played superbly by Kenneth Brannagh),discovers he is a parselmouth(can speak snake language),and learns of a secret Chamber in the school that holds a monster that is petrifying many of the muggle borns in the school and naturally Harry and his friends try to unravel the mystery that is the Chameber of Secrets before the school is closed.

I must say I thoroughly enjoyed this film.All of the cinematography,special effects,and production design is once again top-notch and perfectly creates this fantasy world.Cris Columbus steps back into the director's chair once more and while I don't feel he did quite as well as he did in the original he still did a very respectable job.Yet again John Williams score steals the show,its magical sound sells every single scene.The acting was once more the definite highlight of the film,bringing back old favorites and adding new ones.My only minor gripe with this film was the lack of character development,the characters don't really change from what they were at the beginning of the film,this is what keeps this film from being better than its predecessor.Still regardless of this little gripe this film is superb and is yet another modern day classic.With more action,more laughs,and just as much heart as the original this one is a definite must see.Even if you aren't a Potter fan you might find something to enjoy in this film.Although this is not better than the original,it is by no means worst,if it just had more character development it would have been head and shoulders above the original,but because of that it's only on par with the original.

This was a great movie, better than the first.
The actors have grown up alot and have gotten used to their roll. This makes the movie so excellent.
The three friends make lots more discoveries about the magical school and learn some of the schools other secrets. They meet and make new friends and solve mysteries about the secrets of the school.
The special effects made this movie so wonderful.

The second movie was even better than the first!! The best part was moaning myrtle and the underground pipe system where Ginny had been lured. Harry has to leave Ron behind with Lockhart who has lost his memory and move on to see if he can find voldemort and Ginny. He also has to fight a basilisk with the ability to kill him or petrify him with it's gaze.

A lot has been made about the pubescence of the three leads in this new Harry Potter installment and it is a bit disconcerting when Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) speak their first lines in those awkward cracks of pre-adolescence. However, their growing up, along with the physical blossoming of their friend Hermione (the perky and smart actress Emma Watson) seem mark a general growing up of the whole Harry Potter series. This one is more for grown-ups: the first one hooked the kid demographic and no doubt they will still be enraptured by "Chamber of Secrets." This is the film, however, that hopes to attract a whole new audience in the parents of those kids. It is darker and has more layers. The explanations about wizardry are less cursory and the acting seems stronger.

I have never read the books so I bring an outlook to the films that is free of personal bias toward the quality of the adaptation or the faithfulness to Rowling's words. One thing this film does do, that the first one did not, is it made me want to read the books. I was more drawn in, in a literary sense, to the world, to the stories, and particularly to the characters. Whereas the first film was a passable introduction to everything Harry Potter is about, this seems like a deeper riff on some of the same themes that the first one only glossed over.

However, I might not have enjoyed Chamber of Secrets as thoroughly if I had not first seen Sorcerer's Stone. It gave me (and Chris Columbus' production team) a framework that invited expansion. Without the background of the first film, I might not have been as emotionally invested in Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane), or have understood the mechanics of "Quidditch," or even have cared about the tenuous future of Hogwarts School for Wizards.

In a word, the performances are "marvelous." I read somewhere that Rowling wrote with a Dickensian sense of character and that seems to carry over to the film. Robbie Coltrane as the affable Hagrid is still my favorite. Maggie Smith and Alan Rickman are woefully underused in this film but I can only hope they will resurface in the others; they can still steal their scenes with the tiniest pursing of the lips or eye flickers. (As a side note: Outside of Coltrane's Hagrid, I find Rickman's Professor Snape the most interesting and multi-layered character across both films). Richard Harris is suitably noble and wily in one of his last roles. And Kenneth Branagh, as the egomaniacal new Hogwarts professor and author of wizardry books, is perfectly cast and very funny. One thing this film does is allow room to explore these characters in a full sense and give the audience time to get under their skin.

Chris Columbus has been called a tactless director and I can see where some of his scenes, particularly the action ones, are played so broadly that they lose all semblance of meaning. He is not particularly adept at handling the young actors, who come across as pretty bland and uninteresting (Rupert Grint as Ron is sort of annoying, overplaying the stuff that was likeable at first). Likewise, he is unable to invigorate some of the scenes (the car scenes, the spider scene, and even the final encounter between Harry and the Chamber of Secrets' monster) come off as overlong and particularly flat. The running time of 2 hours and 41 minutes is a bit exorbitant: To me it just suggests that Columbus doesn't have the necessary audacity to deviate too much from Rowling's source material. I know that he has to maintain a certain level of faithfulness to the books but, to be honest, what is exciting on the page does not always translate well onscreen. Perhaps Alfonso Cuaron, slated to direct the new film, will have a better, snappier sense of how to energize the action scenes without losing the obvious positives of sticking to the novels.

However, the movie did energize me enough to want to go and read the books. The scope, the palette of, yes, Dickensian characters, and the intertwining of stories makes me want to see how Rowling fits it all together. Then maybe I'll be able to talk more intelligently about faithfulness when Cuaron releases `Prisoner of Azkaban.' Maybe I'll undergo a massive reading program this holiday season.

in the second tale of harry potter, things get even more interesting. with the usual originality and mystery, humour, friendships, themes about loyalty, suspense and surprise this makes for a movie even better than the first!! i greatly enjoyed this movie, and i have no idea who in their right mind wouldnt!! UNMISSABLE!!

I found this film an adequate adaptation of the book. It does give you a sense of continuation of Harry Potters life and the characters are indeed growing. You do however wonder how harry surivies each year as he doesn't seem to get any better at magic. Rather darker then the first film but very enjoyable. I would read the book first before watching the film.

Slightly better than the first adaption but still lacking in direction, as there is little tension, music can be quite repetitive, action just worms along with not much pumping. But at least this one started to improve upon poor acting performances from out dear harry, still, no oscars too soon I may add, Nice graphics with slight realism.

The Chamber of Secrets is about to be opened again...when Harry learn about the bad news, he is determine to do his best to stop it...but things get difficult as they get more homework in the 2nd year, more Quidditch practices and trying to deal with friends who argue all the time, life isn't always smooth sailing, especially when Ginny acts all funny around Harry...or is there something to do with Ginny?