Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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Metascore
63 out of 100

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6.3 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 344 Ratings

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  • Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint
  • Summary: This second installment in the Harry Potter series finds young wizard Harry Potter (Radcliffe) and his friends Ron (Grint) and Hermione (Watson) facing new challenges during their second year at Hogwarts as they try to discover a dark force that is terrorizing the school.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 35
  3. Negative: 1 out of 35
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    100
    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.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
    80
    Darker and more dramatic, this account of Harry's troubled second year at Hogwarts may be a bit overlong and unmodulated in pacing, but it possesses a confidence and intermittent flair that begin to give it a life of its own apart of the literary franchise, something the initial picture never achieved.
  3. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Rick Kisonak
    60
    May just be the most quintessential Steven Spielberg movie Steven Spielberg never made.
  4. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Stephen Hunter
    30
    Big, dull and empty -- nobody associated with this production appears to have thought hard about storytelling.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 96 out of 121
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 121
  3. Negative: 16 out of 121
  1. cameronmorewood
    10
    Somehow, this sequel manages to be even more magical than its predecessor. It unleashes a string of brand new ideas and invents some marvelous new characters. The is a film no true movie lover is going to want to miss.… Expand
  2. gm101
    8
    While it's not my favorite Harry Potter movie (that honor goes to "Order of the Phoenix"), seriously, what's with the low user score? It was just as good as the first one, and better then the third and sixth ones!… Expand
  3. JawsPapi87
    7
    This second installment is on the same level on the first one, also containing a few highlights of entertainment like Aragog and Kenneth Branagh as Gilderoy Lockhart… Expand
  4. Necromus
    2
    I saw this at a friend's house along with the first Harry Potter movie after it was released on video. This movie just bored me to death. I don't see what all the hype is about. Maybe you had to read the book, my friends who have read the book tell me that the book is way better than the movie. Rating it as a bad movie since it was so boring that I don't even remember any of it. After seeing the first two movies, I never bothered seeing any others since I was so bored by the first two.… Expand

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