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  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling, is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
With Ron's help, Harry discovers the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets, where he discovers that it was Ginny who opened the Chamber, but that she wasn't acting of her own free will - she was possessed by Lord Voldemort, whose name at school was Tom Riddle.
Mythological Structure of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
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 DVDFILE.COM: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Chamber of Secrets is hyper-active, breathless in how it jumps from one scene to the next, from magic trick to huge action setpiece.
Chamber of Secrets is more of the same, although the transfer itself is a slight improvement.
Chamber of Secrets if far less secretive, with the treasure chest not locked far away in a chamber.
www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_6/harrypotter_chamber.html   (2349 words)

  
 calendarlive.com: 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'
"Chamber of Secrets" displays such zeal for re-creating the book's more grotesque aspects, from man-eating spiders to venom-dripping monster serpents, that it is sure to rattle the cages of the smallest viewers, sending them under their seats if not out of the theater.
The darkness that invades "Chamber of Secrets" underlines how well the books managed to exactly balance good and evil, dark and light, so that within their pages you seemed to be experiencing both at the same time.
The most memorable moments in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" involve not some expensive special effect but the unplanned poignancy of Richard Harris' performance, the last of his long career, as headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-et-turan15nov15,0,1767241.story   (950 words)

  
 Review: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Well, the secret can finally be let out -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets improves on the first movie in almost every way.
In the end though, Harry Potter is all about magic and Chamber of Secrets lacks some of the magic and heart that made the first so special.
That said, Chamber of Secrets is far from a failure.
www.countingdown.com /features?feature_id=2643334   (923 words)

  
 AboutFilm.com - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Already there was concern that Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the second in the book and movie franchise, would be rated PG-13 instead of PG because of its subject matter.
Unlike the first movie, however, it's even harder still to rip Kloves and Columbus to shreds because, mangled as their Chamber of Secrets may be, it's still highly entertaining and clearly addresses some of the problems of the first film.
He was too busy, apparently, to write a new score for Chamber of Secrets, thus wrote some new themes and left the rest to William Ross (who earlier this year wrote the wonderful score to Tuck Everlasting).
www.aboutfilm.com /movies/h/harrypotter2.htm   (1176 words)

  
 Sound for The Chamber of Secrets-Creating the Sound for The Chamber of Secrets
The second installment, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets — released in November to huge crowds — employed the same cast (with a few additions) and crew.
In general, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a louder and more intense film than Sorcerer's Stone, with numerous interesting set pieces and exciting action sequences that allowed Thom plenty of creative opportunities.
The principal trick was to play each word in some kind of deep reverb — usually a chamber, with a long decay time — and then reverse that so you hear the word sort of rush in backward up to — in the case of the word ‘kill’ — the first consonant.
mixonline.com /sound4picture/film_tv/audio_chamber_secrets/index.html   (1069 words)

  
 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets reviewed by AllZone4DVD.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The terrifying Chamber of Secrets has been opened and with it brings an evil that has been buried for 50 years.
When it is flying through the Chamber of Secrets, the faded outline is quite obvious and it does make it look fake.
When you get to the Chamber there is just a lot of information about its history, but the real challenge is in the questions you do before.
www.allzone4dvd.net /review_details.htm?id=363   (1710 words)

  
 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Christoper Columbus' Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, is a far cry from the preceding Harry Potter movie.
With a new approach to the special effects, the movie franchise has introduced a greater excitement in scenes such as the Quidditch game, Aragog's lair, and The Chamber of Secrets.
This masterpiece deserves much praise for the hard work for the cast and crew, yet there are times when there is not enough background information for one to fully understand the Potter history.
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 Mystified by Magic?: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Enemies of the Heir, beware.” They soon discover that the Chamber of Secrets contains a deadly monster, that it hasn’t been opened for 50 years, and that the last time it was opened, someone died.
Apparently, only Slytherin’s heir would be able to open this Chamber of Secrets and use the monster within to cleanse the school from all “Muggle-borns” and “halfbloods” whom he felt were unworthy to study magic.
When Harry defeats the monster in the Chamber, the scene is bloody: “A sudden shower of dark blood spattered the floor.
www.focusonyourchild.com /entertain/art1/A0000586.html   (1044 words)

  
 Review: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
There's no question that Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is designed more for fans of the book than for those who have never picked up a J.K. Rowling tome.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets opens up with Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) joining his friends, Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint), and his nemesis, Draco (Tom Felton), as they prepare to begin their sophomore year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.
A dark plot is brewing, with someone planning to break into the legendary "Chamber of Secrets" and unleash a monster that can petrify or kill with a look.
movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/h/harry_potter2.html   (936 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Video: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Chamber of Secrets extras are a vast improvement from the first Harry Potter DVD in both substance and navigation.
Dark forces are at work as the mysterious Chamber of Secrets is opened, releasing something that threatens the school's students.
The Chamber of Secrets is more sinister than the first film, targeted towards older children and adults.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008DDXB   (1179 words)

  
 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Mini DVD) Movie: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Mini DVD) DVD is ...
In this sequel, Harry and his friends Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) and Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for the new school year only to be met with a terrifying mystery.
An unknown creature, one that supposedly lives in the legendary Chamber of Secrets hidden at Hogwarts, is attacking students in the school, leaving them literally petrified and as cold as stone.
HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS also stars the late Richard Harris, majestic Maggie Smith, and an under-used Alan Rickman.
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 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (hereafter Harry Potter 2) treats its audience with respect while comporting itself with intelligence, wit, and passion.
Best of all, its makers understand that in a magical alternate universe, the sight of an animate tree or a moving painting is as mundane as a daisy or a toaster.
That the film is a worthy swan song for Richard Harris, a man of a storied career, is first a surprise, then an incalculable relief--and destined to be the proudest legacy of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, a beautifully crafted dark fable.
filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/harrypotterandthechamberofsecrets.htm   (340 words)

  
 Filmtracks: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (John Williams/William Ross)
The music for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, like its predecessor and a large portion of the newer Star Wars cues, is an odd, clearly identifiable return of Williams to his 1989-1991 style of composition.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets contains a much scarier and sinister storyline, and yet the score never invokes the true power of the orchestra or voices to extend that fright to a level even equivilent to the chess game scene in the first film.
It is doubtful that Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets will extend its critical success beyond the level of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and if Williams receives award nominations, they will likely point towards his other fine music of the year.
www.filmtracks.com /titles/chamber_secrets.html   (4931 words)

  
 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Movie Review | Daniel Radcliffe | J.K. Rowling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
One of the great things about sequels (there aren't actually that many,) is that you've already been introduced to the whole idea, the concept and the characters.
But the biggest star in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is Hogwarts itself.
From the mucho evil Slytherin common room, to the depths of the Chamber of Secrets, this magical mansion is amazing.
www.kidzworld.com /site/p2775.htm   (288 words)

  
 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
To accomplish his vendetta, Slytherin endowed the school with a secret chamber and placed in it a monster that would violently eliminate "mudbloods," or wizards of Muggle (non-magical) lineage.
Prejudice is likewise put down with the defeat of the chamber’s monster and its racist mission.
Harry’s loyalty to wise professor Dumbledore proves to be a key factor in his battle with the chamber’s monster.
www.pluggedinonline.com /movies/movies/a0000260.cfm   (1567 words)

  
 The Z Review - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Once he arrives at school it doesn’t take long for the terrible things to start to happen, Harry starts to hear a voice that seems to be coming from within the walls warning him of what’s to come(murder and death).
Mudblood(people with one or more Muggle [non magic] parents) students start to be petrified by an unknown Monster that is lurking the grounds and lives in the mysterious Chamber of Secrets.
This sets up many diverging plot lines with Harry and Ron searching for the Chamber with help from Hagrid who is sent to the Prison at Azkaban upon suspicion that he opened the Chamber.
www.thezreview.co.uk /dvdreviews/h/harrypotter2.htm   (1022 words)

  
 HPL: The Chamber of Secrets
The Chamber of Secrets is a legendary secret room constructed by Salazar Slytherin to house a monster which would finish his "noble work." This noble work would be accomplished when his true heir would open the Chamber and release the monster which lived within to rid the school of non-pureblood students.
The reason no one could find the Chamber is that it required someone to speak in Parseltongue to open its entrance, and this was a power which only a very few have ever had.
The Chamber itself is a huge temple-like room with pillars and carved serpents.
www.hp-lexicon.org /hogwarts/castle/chamber_of_secrets.html   (536 words)

  
 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
As a movie, Chamber of Secrets has understandably dispensed with a few of the book's subplots and rather focussed on the action, suspense, and mystery elements of the book.
As with the first movie, Chamber of Secrets boasts wonderful production values, and the set/costume design, art direction, cinematography, and visual/sound effects are all top notch.
    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is to be released on DVD in Region 1 in mid-April 2003.
www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=2770   (1700 words)

  
 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets trivia
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) - 29 trivia entries
This is the bookstore in "Chamber of Secrets" that Harry and Hagrid pass on their way out of Knockturn Alley, but the old green sign obviously reads something else as it is not the setting for Flourish & Blotts in this film.
www.moviemistakes.com /film2434/trivia   (896 words)

  
 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Once there, Harry begins to hear a mysterious voice, and it turns out that the sinister Chamber of Secrets has been reopened, and the creature set free has begun to attack students.
The success of Sorcerer's Stone was measured largely by how well fans thought director Chris Columbus and screenwriter Steve Cloves adapted the novel, and that criterion will probably come into play with Chamber of Secrets as well.
But if it doesn't fly, this ''Chamber'' at least hovers nicely a few feet off the ground for good stretches of time.
movies.go.com /moviesdynamic/movies/movie?name=harrypotterandthechamberofsecrets_2002&genre=scifi&studio=TBA   (941 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
As with its predecessor Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a highly readable and imaginative adventure story with real, fallible, characters, plenty of humour and, of course, loads of magic and spells.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is an astonishing book for all ages.
For instance, the writing on the wall that the Chamber of Secrets has been opened was very reminiscent of the fall of Babylon in the Bible, even down to the feast (although, I'm pretty sure that there was no petrified cat at Babylon).
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0747538484   (2383 words)

  
 "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
But the students and the faculty soon become stunned to learn (by blood on the wall) that a Chamber of Secrets has been opened.
It is rumored that this chamber contained a monster and many students begin to turn up petrified.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets goes beyond the visual dimension of the imagination and once again glorifies the occult in a glamorous way.
christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2002/harrypotterchamber.html   (2703 words)

  
 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets mistakes, goofs and bloopers
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets plot summary / Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets spoiler
Continuity: When Harry is in the Chamber of Secrets and has just killed the basilisk, you can see in three or four shots that Harry is still on top of Salazar Slytherin's head.
Continuity: When Lockhart falls down the hole into the Chamber of Secrets, we hear him hit the ground a second or two later.
www.moviemistakes.com /film2434   (1516 words)

  
 IGN: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Review
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for Xbox is not without flaws, but it's still a polished, fun, inventive 3D adventure game that shouldn't be missed by any Potter fan.
The Chamber of Secrets, developed skillfully by Eurocom Entertainment, closely follows the book and movie of the same name.
The Chamber of Secrets is, in fact, deeper than readers probably realize.
xbox.ign.com /articles/377/377094p1.html   (1585 words)

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