Fresh
This new Harry Potter has its flaws, but it's better, as well as darker, than the first.
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Something evil has returned to Hogwarts!
2002 · 2h 41m · PG
Adventure, Fantasy
Directed by
Chris Columbus
Overview
Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione's magical abilities and courage.
Director and cast
- Chris Columbus Director
- Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter
- Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley
- Emma Watson as Hermione Granger
- Kenneth Branagh as Gilderoy Lockhart
- Toby Jones as Dobby (voice)
- Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid
- Richard Harris as Albus Dumbledore
- Alan Rickman as Severus Snape
- Maggie Smith as Professor Minerva McGonagall
- Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
82%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Two down, presumably five to go, and already the franchise is entering dangerous territory: if you aren't one of the many who know their Harry Potter chapter and verse, prepare for a nap.
Michael Agger, New Yorker
Fresh
Radcliffe, 3 inches taller and an octave lower than last year, is growing comfortably into his character, as is Watson, the fetching and confident Hermione.
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
Rotten
It doesn't help that Chamber is pretty much all business from the opening shot, trading in Stone's sometimes-clunky exposition for full-steam-ahead action.
Keith Phipps, AV Club
Rotten
Like many children I've met, director Chris Columbus seems never to have heard the word no.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
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