Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Just got back from seeing the latest Harry Potter flick. I preface this by saying that I am not a Harry Potter fanatic. My wife is, so I follow her to the movies. I love children's literature, but I have yet to read a single one of the Harry Potter books. If I have the choice of reading a book or seeing a movie of the same title----I will usually see the movie out of sheer laziness. And after I've seen the movie, I really don't care to go back and read the book. Maybe if I had gotten on this Harry Potter bandwagon sooner I would be reading the books....but its too late now.

So on to the movie. I enjoyed it. It was much faster paced than the previous two movies (my wife, the fanatic was complaining about how lots of parts were missing). As a non-reader of the books I found the ending to be relatively suprising. Also Dawn French (star of the BBC's Vicar of Dibley) made a cameo which I wasn't expecting.

On a scale of 1-10....I give it an 8.

It is supposed to repeated June 12, but there was a great Harry Potter sketch on Saturday Night Live about a month ago with Lindsay Lohan as Hermione. Basically about all the characters reaching puberty and the trouble that follows. Laughed my ass off.