There’s more hijinks from that wiener kid Harry Potter and his wiener friends at the most dangerous school in the world but this time around there’s a wonderful new scumbag in the form of Draco Malfoy’s father played by an excellent Jason Isaacs and a foppish out-of-his-element new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher played by a scene-stealing Kenneth Branagh. In the trade we get the Jar Jar Binks of the wizarding world called Dobby as he uses all his annoying skills to prevent Harry Potter from going back to Hogwarts. It’s not because he’s a dick or anything, it’s because there’s schemes in the works that will put the young man in mortal danger. An old diary connects Potter to a former student named Tom Riddle who has a big old secret and a hidden chamber is opened unleashing a very dangerous monster into the halls of Hogwarts. As usual, the supporting characters are wonderful and some of the kids don’t make me want to punch them… that’s a small victory for them. This would be the final turn as Dumbledore for Richard Harris who would pass away in 2002, sucks he’s gone but it would allow for Michael Gambon to take the role and completely become synonymous with the character until his death in 2023. Damn, the Harry Potter films left us with a lot of In Memoriums. The basilisk and giant spiders are pretty damn wonderful for this old monster kid.
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