Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Almighty Edit

Another excellent Harry Potter edit by almightycutie - much superior to the original/official extended versions. Things move along at a decently brisk pace and all visual/audio edits are seemless. The only points I’ve docked are for Enjoyment as I think the end scene in the dining hall still goes on too long but that’s a base film issue, not a fault of this edit.

I’d recommend this cut instead of the official versions without hesitation.

Another great cut down and edit of this film while using the Extended edition as the basis. Once again the annoying aspects that made Ron look stupid are cut out as well as the pacing was a tad faster. I will say that the only thing I noticed is that after the diary flashback scene, the cut to the school feels a bit fast with the music and video aligning weird. Otherwise, fantastic edit and looking forward to Prisoner of Azkaban next.

If you want to watch the movie, get the extras and still enjoy it without falling asleep, this is the one to watch.

I grew up with the books. I was eleven when Harry was eleven and being from Sweden I had to wait until book four to be good enough at English to be able to read it as soon as it came out. Chamber of Secrets is my least favorite though. I just feel there is so much transportation and there is little going on. I usually skip it when re-reading the books.
I have recently however seen quite a few clips of Gildenroy Lockheart and I wanted to revisit the movie again. And I think this was the perfect way to do it. I got to see most of the extended scenes but with trims to them and a lot of small trims here and there to make the pacing feel like I was sitting in a railway cart. Very good! I did fell though as if something was missing but I think that is much more the original choices of the film makers and not this edit. I think this just makes it better.

I've never been a huge fan of either the books or the movies with the sole exception of Cuaron's Prisoner of Azkaban, and last time I had a hankering to watch Azkaban a few years it was during the pandemic, so with little else to do I decided to rewatch all 8 movies. They are ROUGH--especially these first two, which are sodden with overlong, clunky, leaden dialog and acting.

Well, I wanted to watch Azkaban again, and figured there HAD to be good fanedits of them. There are, of course, and they're almightycutie's. This edit is strictly superior in every way; tighter, smarter, and quicker. In particular on this one, Harry's agonizingly bad fight choreography with the Tinfoil Letter Opener of Godric Gryffindor have always bothered me to no end, and it's 90% excised in this cut.

I always liked this movie the least of the series. Probably because the grand finale involves Harry fighting with a sword against a large Snake in the basement lol and also because after the first part where everything was fresh, not a lot of awesome new things were introduced in this movie. But this edit made the movie way more watchable! As almightycutie says, only smaller things were changed, but they pay off. The added music blended in just fine, I could not find anything sticking out that I could mention on the negative side of this edit. Good job!