Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets instal the new version for iphone

Also entering the stage for the first time is Lucius Malfoy (Jason Isaacs), the blond-tressed, evil-oozing father of Harry’s school archrival, Draco. The preening author of the autobiography “Magical Me,” Lockhart is joining the Hogwarts faculty as teacher of Defense Against the Dark Arts. Happily, a good part of the buildup is spent back at Diagon Alley, where Harry first encounters Gilderoy Lockhart (Kenneth Branagh, so ideally cast you’d think Rowling wrote the character with him in mind). So it’s only a matter of about 20 minutes until Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), who has endured a dispiriting summer as a virtual prisoner at the suburban home of his dreadfully conventional uncle and aunt, is off again to Hogwarts to resume his study of witchcraft and wizardry.

Rowling assumed a certain reader knowledge in her second book (published in 1999), so do returning director Chris Columbus and screenwriter Steve Kloves rightly presume to pare exposition down to the minimum this time out (it’s hard to imagine anyone seeing this who hasn’t caught the original). But its mammoth success remains a foregone conclusion. With Pottermania perhaps having cooled over the course of a year from the heat level of a burning furnace to that of a happily bubbling cauldron, it can’t be expected that “Chamber of Secrets” will hit the dizzying commercial heights of “Sorcerer’s Stone,” which at $967 million total gross ($317.6 million from the U.S.) stands as the No. Darker and more dramatic, this account of Harry’s troubled second year at Hogwarts may be a bit overlong and unmodulated in pacing, but it possesses a confidence and intermittent flair that begin to give it a life of its own apart of the literary franchise, something the initial picture never achieved. While “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” may slavishly adhere to its source novel nearly as much as its predecessor did, it is on every count a better movie than last year’s first film installment in the telling of the story of a young wizard’s startling education.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets instal the new version for iphone