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

Generally favorable reviews - based on 35 Critics What's this?

User Score
5.9 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 261 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. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Rick Kisonak
    60
    May just be the most quintessential Steven Spielberg movie Steven Spielberg never made.
  3. 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: 85 out of 108
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 108
  3. Negative: 15 out of 108
  1. 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
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  2. Treblotski
    4
    It should have been more scary. There are mysterious attacks in Hogwarts, but everybody reacts to it with his/her dumb poker face. And now, it's the second movie, it seems like the movie makers are going the easy way. They're not even trying to make "Harry Potter" an epic film series.… Expand
    • 4 of 6 users said yes
  3. JaredC.
    0
    Really boring, it may have some use for the series, but doesn't do anything special. Chris Columbus just doesn't get it. Could have been so much better.… Expand
    • 1 of 3 users said yes

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