Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Warner, 2002) I'm of a double mind about Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. To be fair, I may be of a triple or quadruple mind. My inner child, which went to see the movie with my sons on opening weekend, enjoyed it without reservation. But my inner critic began a running monologue as soon as I walked out of the movie theater. As a piece of movie …showed first 75 words of 1649 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1649 total…Harry nervously declare his innocence in criminal wrongdoing and his fear that he may be descended from a dangerous wizard, but there's no real introspection about his proclivity for rule-breaking, no underlying terror that his mysterious powers may come from a very dark source. The film has a chance to take a risk, to improve in fact upon the novel, but it doesn't make the attempt. It is what it is, for better or worse.