Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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  • Opened November 15, 2002 
  • 2 hr 41 min
  • PG | scary moments, some creature violence and mild language

  • Parents: Common Sense Media says OK for kids 8+. More on child suitability

  • The follow-up to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone finds young wizard Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) and his friends Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) facing new challenges during their second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as they try to discover a dark force that is terrorizing the school. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Kenneth Branagh, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Harris
  • Director: Chris Columbus
  • Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

by danieljacoby1

It was a good movie, the actors did well and this movie is mostly for young preteens....

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by movie_LOVER_4

Dobby!!!...

Oh No!
Should have been cleaner

by RoseBro

This movie series has disappointed me because it needlessly contains profanity and other immoral things. Both the book and movie series were wasted because of it. What a wast of such a great effort....

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Chicago Sun-Times
| Roger Ebert

Brimming with invention and new ideas, and its Hogwarts School seems to expand and deepen before our very eyes into a world large enough to conceal unguessable secrets -- What a glorious movie. Read full review

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Entertainment Weekly
| Lisa Schwarzbaum

And among the things this ''HP'' does very well indeed is deepen the darker, more frightening atmosphere for audiences of all ages already familiar with the intricacies of the ''Potter'' landscape. (This is as it should be: Harry's story is supposed to get darker.) Read full review

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Wall Street Journal
| Joe Morgenstern

Has its flaws, but it's better, as well as darker, than the first. It's also longer, by nine minutes, but hold that protest to the Kidney Foundation; the time flies, albeit in fits and starts, like players on a Quidditch field. Read full review

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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
| Rick Groen

There's a missing element whose absence, forgive me, I can't help but lament. This is a movie about magic that ultimately lacks the magic of movies." Read full review

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