Harry Potter: The Complete 8-Film Collection

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When Harry Potter learns on his eleventh birthday that he is, in fact, a wizard, he is quickly swept up into the spellbinding world of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry alongside new best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. But Dobby`s warning is portentous, as the heir of Slytherin has opened the Chamber of Secrets at Hogwarts, and death roams the corridors once more.

This fourth year of the Harry Potter cycle is when teenagers start being obnoxious to each other, on top of becoming painfully thin-skinned, and that is reflected in where the characters are. It has a good pace to it, and enthusiastic performances from its main cast, who are really getting the hang of this acting thing by now. Like all of the books adapted to film to this point, year-long stories told in a space of two hours, the narrative is always going to be piecemeal, the passage of time variable, but the other films to this point managed to find what was essential in the story and craft a film around that. Catalan, Spanish and Czech, with subtitles in those languages, Arabic, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic, and Slovenian.It’s pared down to beyond the bare minimum to tell Harry’s story in this film, and the film really only works for those who have the knowledge of the book to help place the scenes in context. But one thing is clear about this film, it’s the first Harry Potter film that really looks at the central triumvirate of characters, as it is in essence, a road movie as Harry, Ron and Hermione go about their mission to find and destroy the Horcruxes, and latterly to learn more about the Deathly Hallows, Voldemort, and indeed Dumbledore.

You have a predominantly child cast, who you follow over eight movies, seven years of school, ten years of real time filming, and they don’t go the expected route of the child star, initial fame followed by a public crash and burn, and to the lament of many a tabloid, they still haven’t.As myth and magic combine to weave their dark spell, Harry uncovers a few more crucial secrets about his mysterious past. After all, there’s really just the one major plot in the film, that of the escape of Sirius Black, the targeting of Harry Potter, and the revelations of how Sirius Black was involved in Harry’s past. Home Entertainment's Tenet topped both the Blu-ray-only and overall packaged media charts for the third week in a row.