SORCERER's/PHILOSIPHER'S STONE (2001) - **1/2 CHAMBER OF SECRETS (2002) - **1/2 PRISONER OF AZKABAHN (2004) - ***1/2 GOBLET OF FIRE (2005) - ****
The first two features from Chris Columbus are a representations of him as a director, for better or for worse. He is reliable in a financial sense, but thats it. His style consists of pointing a camera, shooting, then cut. If anything, I nickname him "Mr. Polaroid".
But yet Charon, almost the younger Latin version of Terry Gilliam, finally gave that massive fantasy universe some real organic energy and well, style to it. Then the veteran Mike Newell further dwelled into the rising maturity of the universe than Charon's big toe dip into the river, with promise that things aren't gonna get any better for our protagonists.
