Well, I've already said that I enjoyed the first movie a good bit, and I definitely enjoyed the books, so I, of course, went and saw the second Harry Potter film. I enjoyed this one nearly as much as the first one, but not quite. The first movie handled the book well, flowing from part to part and dropping things when necessary. Chamber of Secrets, unfortunately, suffers from the problem that most book-to-movie translations suffer from. In the book, there is room and time for a lot of plot hitches and story development. The movie, though long at 2 hrs. and 40 min., can't keep it all. Unfortunately, a lot of these little hooks are very important to the plot, and must be kept in. A lot of them become footnotes, where they were important points in the book. For instance, the new kid with the hero worship fixation about Harry. We see him exatly three times, and the third is after he's been petrified. In the book, he plays a much more soticable role.
  All of this is not to say that the movie was bad. While all theses bits are just flashed by in the movie, they managed to make them fairly smoothly and not in a blipvert sort of manner. They just are less important than they are in the book. Jason Isaacs plays the role excellently: Evil and oily under a veneer of civility.
  It's interesting to see how the cast of Harry, Ron, and Hermione have grown in the past year: Ron has had his voice change, and he's growing into his face. It will be quite interesting to see him in Goblet of Fire. The introduction of the elder Malfoy is good.
  The plot moves along well, and we're not left waiting for things to happen. The action of the end fight and the Quidditch match are enjoyable, and not rushed. Perhaps the Quiddich match was a touch long, tho.
  The one thing that worries me a bit, is that this movie is a lot more adult than Sorcerer's Stone. The book isn't really that way, and I only worried about kids reading Goblet of Fire. The fight with the basilisk in this movie has a lot of blood, so I'm hesitant to reccomend it for kids if the younger age that the books are meant for. However, the graphicness is restricted to the one fight at the end.
  Overall, I enjoyed watching Chamber of Secrets and I'm looking forward to both the next book and the next movie.