son, treating Harry as, at best a second-class citizen, in fact, Harry's room was the cupboard under the stairs. Among the Tutors Professor Severus Snape (Alan Rickman) the mysterious and seemingly stern teacher who through the years Harry would be wary of despite knowing that Dumbledore had much faith in Snape, would Harry's doubts be proved right? Part 5: Evolution - Join the filmmakers as they discuss how the creative vision for the films evolved throughout the series. We have this main, dark, storyline running through the film, an impending sense of suspense, of ominous foreboding growing through the film, but it’s leavened with some very effective humour, some delightful comic moments, that serve to light up the screen.

The CG effects are quite good, although the underwater sequences are stricken more than you might expect with uncanny valley syndrome. 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.English track, this time encoded at 448kbps, and you’ll have to use your remote to change to the preferable PCM 5. It also seems as if there’s been some contrast boosting applied, with whites appearing blown in some scenes, blue skies seen on the DVD are white on the Blu-ray, and dark detail levels vary from the excellent to the non-existent. Harry keeps attracting trouble though, and in between fending off his nemesis Malfoy and learning to fly a Hippogriff, he learns an uncomfortable truth about Sirius Black. That is until the film’s epilogue, the 19-years later vignette, effective in the book, but not so much on film, as the middle-age make-up on young actors doesn’t quite feel reel.

There are no main menu screens, but Top Menu does take you out of the movies and presents the extras in separate menus. bestselling author of all time with her imaginative creation of the magical fantasy series Harry Potter (Seven Books-Eight Movies) . But Slughorn has a habit of ‘collecting’ the scions of the powerful and famous, as well as promising students of the future, he’s a career networker, and he’d like to add Harry Potter to his shelf. If that isn’t enough, the Ministry have appointed Dolores Umbridge as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts Teacher, not to teach, but to clamp down on loose talk.Hagrid - See the camera tricks, towering stand-in and voluminous body suits behind the beloved Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts. Of all the Harry Potter adaptations that I have seen so far, or at least watched with my full attention on the screen, not distracted by pesky adverts, The Prisoner of Azkaban feels the most like a genuine feature film. widescreen transfer at 1080p, once again using the VC-1 codec, and once again it’s a very nice transfer, clear and sharp throughout, with rich colours, fine detail, great contrast, and the requisite layer of film grain that remind you that films were once made using actual film, and not just on hard drives. It’s moody, atmospheric, and stylish, but at times I did think it was overdone, distracting from the story. As such, a lot of significant developments happen off screen, we only hear about Snape becoming headmaster of Hogwarts on a magical radio, we don’t even see the fall of the Ministry of Magic, and appearances from other regular characters are brief enough to be merely cameos.

In 'The Prisoner of Azkaban' (2004), the trio are now in their third year of wizarding school, but there is a shadow hanging over Harry: dangerous serial killer Sirius Black (Gary Oldman) has escaped from the Wizards' prison, Azkaban - and he wants revenge for the death of his master, Voldemort, who Harry defeated 13 years earlier. The Harry Potters You Never Met - Meet the stunt doubles for Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as they demonstrate how they balanced major stunt work with seamlessly mimicking the actors they represented and share their favorite moments. 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. The Triwizard Tournament is taking place this year, and Hogwarts is competing against Durmstrang and Beauxbatons schools. The second film also offers significant improvement in the area of CGI, and Dobby is a much more realistic and believable character than the troll of the first film, or indeed most of the Quidditch pilots.

The surround track is really quite good, effective, vibrant, but naturalistic as well, never overemphasising the effects, or indulging the LFE just because it can.