Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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First off, I'm not too fond of the "one person is so special everyone has to bow to their greatness" so the first movie irked me a bit with everybody thinking Harry was the Second Coming (just so's you know I'm not hypocritical - not in love with the Gundam Newtypes idea either). Maybe the movie did depart a bit from the book, but I for one like the fact it seems Harry's now more integrated with the rest of the school rather than this mythical figure. Second, I agree with Solscud007...not having read the books, several parts of the movie left me scratching my head (namely the stag), was only when I asked a friend about it that I learned what was left out: dvd deleted scenes are nice in adding bits of the book that weren't essential to the plot, but I think they misstepped big-time in not wholly explaining plot-points, when even a small conversation would have done. In all, I rather enjoyed the movie and look forward to the next 4-hour one Sorry for the long post