The narrative twists and turns of Chamber of Secrets don't get anywhere near as dark as Rowling's later installments, but the movie still tones down the family-friendly excesses of Sorcerer's Stone to positive effect.
But if the huge weight of tackling the very first big-screen Potter left Columbus and Kloves a bit too focused on cramming in every last magical cranny of Rowling's text, with Chamber of Secrets they are, if not completely liberated, than certainly far more confident to move beyond a simple carbon copy of the book in celluloid form. Director Chris Columbus returns, as does screenwriter Steve Kloves and all of the cast. Shot back-to-back with Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets features most of the same creative personnel as its predecessor. Although I wouldn't call it the best Harry Potter movie, it certainly steered the series in the right direction. Superior in all respects to the first film (which was wasn't bad in and of itself), Chamber of Secrets is more fun, more fanciful, and more engaging. If Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stonewas the get-it-out-of-the-way first chapter in the series that had to set everything up, then Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the one where the filmmakers could finally let loose and just tell a great story.
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