“[Harry Potter] Chamber of Secrets isn’t so much a movie as it is a book-on-film. In other words, rather than taking the essence of the novel and making a movie out of it (as Peter Jackson did so masterfully with The Fellowship Of The Ring), writer Steven Kloves seemingly loaded the book up in Microsoft Word and then selected “Save As [Screenplay]”.
Excerpt from full movie review at Defective Yeti.
