The Reel Rejects - HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE (2001) Full Movie Review!!!

Episode Date: February 16, 2025

YOU'RE A WIZARD, HARRY!! Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone Full Reaction Watch Along: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejec...ts/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thereelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/thereelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Visit https://www.liquidiv.com & use Promo Code: REJECTS to get 20% off your first order. Save & Invest In Your Future Today, visit: https://www.acorns.com/rejects Get Your Fantastic Four & Spider-Club RR Shirts: https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Come see us at MULTICON!! https://shorturl.at/2B9l4 Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone Reaction, Recap, Commentary, Analysis, & Spoiler Review! Greg Alba & Tara Erickson step into the Wizarding World for the very first adventure in the iconic Harry Potter series! We watch and react to all the most magical and memorable moments, including Harry's First Time at Diagon Alley, Hagrid's "You're a Wizard, Harry" Scene, The Sorting Hat Ceremony, Learning Wingardium Leviosa, The Troll in the Dungeon Battle, The First Quidditch Match, Fluffy & The Forbidden Third Floor, The Wizard's Chess Game, and Harry vs. Professor Quirrell & Voldemort! This beloved fantasy film follows young Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe, Swiss Army Man, The Lost City) as he discovers he is a wizard and attends Hogwarts, where he befriends Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint, Servant, Snatch) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson, Beauty and the Beast, Little Women). The trio is guided by wise headmaster Albus Dumbledore (Richard Harris, Gladiator, Unforgiven) and protected by the friendly half-giant Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane, GoldenEye, Cracker), while facing threats from the mysterious Professor Snape (Alan Rickman, Die Hard, Love Actually) and the sinister Lord Voldemort (Richard Bremmer, The 13th Warrior, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace). Other key characters include Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton, The Flash, Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Professor McGonagall (Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey, Sister Act), and Professor Quirrell (Ian Hart, The Last Kingdom, God's Own Country). This film kicked off one of the most beloved franchises of all time—relive the magic with us as we react to the very first entry in the series! For those looking to marathon the movies, here’s the Harry Potter series in chronological order: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010), and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011). Follow Tara Erickson: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TaraErickson Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/taraerickson/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/thetaraerickson Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:32 More on them in just a bit. I'm excited. I'm excited. Tara, you ready, kick this off? Yeah, let's go. Three, two, one. Harry Potter, Abercadabra.
Starting point is 00:01:50 I hate that he has his had to go home. Yeah, that's sad. That was so good. But I really did get sad. And they're like, oh, back at home. I'm like, oh, gross. I hate it there. Gentlemen, we just watched Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone.
Starting point is 00:02:07 Mm-hmm. And I want to normalize stretching, you know? It's just a common conversation. I keep having with people. This is good. We should just normalize stretching in real life, right? No, everyone thinks it's weird when you stretch in public, but everyone's always like stretching is good for you.
Starting point is 00:02:22 Yeah, when you do it. You feel better. You feel better, but people think you look weird. we just watched Harry Potter and the Sorcer Stone my first time rewatching in 24 years probably and it seems like Terry didn't remember like jack shit about I honestly I'm like did I ever see this movie
Starting point is 00:02:46 I thought I did see the first I don't I didn't remember a thing honestly yeah I know it was very clear on that department and it's it is interesting I said it like I don't know somewhere in the halfway point that in a lot of ways this felt like I was watching a prequel to stuff that I kind of knew about already. Like there's certain
Starting point is 00:03:04 plot points from like, I'm aware of where this is supposed to end up, especially because I watch the play. And it's fun seeing some of these pieces put together. And of course, I intentionally will keep my mouth shut or not say something. Something around like, hey, oh, Tara, look over that. Or, you know.
Starting point is 00:03:20 But there's still so much, like, I don't recall that it does have more of that prequel flare. Like, I know that this is supposed to happen. But thinking about it right now, I probably remember some stuff about Chamber of Secrets, the second one. Prisoner of Ascaband may, I would say there's probably like a couple of things. But when it comes to like the last half of them, there's so much, I'm like, yeah, I can't even tell you like what the plot. Honestly, I watch this one. I don't even remember
Starting point is 00:03:48 what the Sorcerer. It was like, what's the Stone? What's the Sorcerer Stone? So revisiting it, it was a really cool journey because even if you I think even if you haven't seen Harry Potter you probably heard some shit right by heard like Voldemort yeah you've probably it's like it is such a big part of just culture now that you must have heard something along
Starting point is 00:04:07 the way and to witness it in this in a world where there's so much nostalgia for it I was like it really caught me off guard at the beginning like there's no tone quite like the Harry Potter tone like there's a there's such a specific tone that it omits of you could
Starting point is 00:04:23 you could apply all adjectives to it of like there's wonder to it um and fantasy yet when you sit back in it you're like but it's just harry potterisms right like that's just the world it's so unique yeah to itself and then watching like the the practicality i would say uh was such a delight and thinking about like oh i've seen the performances especially like daniel radcliffe and later years post Harry Potter to watching him as a little boy now. And, you know, like, I, there's like, the movie's not, um, perfect to me, but it's pretty freaking amazing. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:03 Uh, but Tara, what do you, what do you think? I mean, I loved it. I thought it was a lot of fun. I really like that. I mean, this really truly tells the story of a boy who didn't know he was a wizard and finds his true home in the home of like magic. But I, I, I like. how they, in putting him
Starting point is 00:05:23 on the doorstep, Haggart was like, why? We're going to, Hagert, good God, you guys know I mess up names. Let's just go with it now. I'm going to mess it up again. Haggart. Haggert. They're like, oh, we got to leave him here. These people are terrible.
Starting point is 00:05:40 And what Dumbledore says is just that he needs to not be famous right now. And I'm thinking about that now only because when he does step into Hogwarts. I mean, everybody's just all over him. I'm like, Harry Potter. And I could understand that as like a very small kid, like, how would you even be able to learn properly or live like as an actual kid if everybody's just like toting over you?
Starting point is 00:06:10 So I like that in this story, they made him go through a really hard childhood that absolutely sucked. So that when we get here, it's. so heartwarming to me when he meets Ron and then he meets Hermione and they are his friends and his family and Haggard's like protecting him
Starting point is 00:06:29 and everybody sort of just welcomes him and treats him how a freaking kid should be treated like with love and I'm just so glad that at the end that Dumbledore said like how were you protected she protected
Starting point is 00:06:45 you with love which is nothing that he ever got from being a baby to 11 he doesn't know what that he probably was like i don't even know what that word means he never got that but what he was protected with was his mother's love and now he he knows that and i just go like oh wow this it it's completely changed his life in all the right ways but i really loved mostly that part of that story it got yeah no it's a story about love and i think this was the first to your point at the beginning what you were talking about I have no idea this is intentional or if anyone's ever talked about it ever there's a bit of an irony to watching it because you use
Starting point is 00:07:30 the words I don't think Dumbledore used it but I saw it in the same similar context of a certain point of like he doesn't you shouldn't be famous right now and there is a bit of like an awareness of oh yeah this is kind of I really don't think they're doing like an intentional commentary on like childhood stardom although it kind of feels like it could subconsciously be there right and then to know that these kids had to grow up yeah most only a couple actors in this series changed and you know one of them in particular to do to because the actor died but the kids stayed the same and they've grown up on camera and they grew up in the public eye they dealt with the the fame and and you know like you have someone like Daniel Radcliffe who struggled to you know he wanted to preserve like being a kid
Starting point is 00:08:18 being a human being as and then you see how he's playing Harry Potter I'm like oh the irony of taking on this role at such a young age when you are just a kid and then being thrust it into stardom and I'm like it it it fits with the casting wise to get an unknown put him make him a star like how Harry Potter was like this unknown sheltered shunned away child literally put under a staircase and now is like the famous one you know yeah there's a there's a strange irony like watching it back now i know i agree i i also just think like it's funny to throw him into a world where he has draco what is his name slitherin the guy um mixed with like you know it the bullies versus how um ron and
Starting point is 00:09:11 and Hermione come across where they're really not they're not as like sort of uh what do you call it an outsider as much as he is but then when he gets here obviously he's completely welcomed but um i really like how how he stands out because of him being an outsider and no one else really is yeah even though they all should they're at a magic school like you know what i mean um which yeah i liked how they handled that which is really just in the right in the books yeah i do think uh you know as as a movie it does become a bit bombastic with some of its information like it's always the thing it's like so much rides off of capturing the right tone here that you kind of just have to surrender to the right because the the the
Starting point is 00:09:59 reaches a point where once especially when haggard shows up to see harry where it's just like that i'm going to be introduced to this introduced to this introduce to this now he's going to go to hoggwitz can be introduced to this he's been on the train being introduced to this and This, this, this new rules, new rules, new rules. Now, this thing, this. And so there's a lot, kind of a cascading thing. And it, it's directed and edited so well to the point where it doesn't become overwhelming. At the same time, I do find, I did find myself going like, I could definitely see that there
Starting point is 00:10:29 would probably be a stronger version if it was like three and a half hours long, you know, because you need some time to set some stuff up or because some things are kind of introduced quickly and then kind of move to the side a little quick, and then they can become a little bit. And some stuff with certain scenes feel a bit exposition heavy, even though a lot of times it doesn't bother me. A lot of scenes I thought it worked really well, especially in the first half.
Starting point is 00:10:55 But there does get to a point where they do drop a lot of exposition because they have to. And I know when you're reading a book, it's very different than when you're translating it to a film medium. Yeah, I mean, you're cutting out like 600 pages. Yeah, I know. Like to my understanding, this is pretty faithful to the book, but still, it will ultimately just play out differently than when you are reading something, right, where you're someone
Starting point is 00:11:21 who's on the journey with being educated and taking in the text. Yeah. But that being said, it's really just small things in the grander scale of this one movie and for the larger picture of a franchise. Because to my understanding, my recollection, these movies do become more mature. They do become more serious. They become more adults. So as the kids grow up, so does the storytelling.
Starting point is 00:11:48 And for your first movie installment, like, it's a kids film. It's a fantasy film. It's a family movie. And I think that family adventure vibe is so strong in such a whimsical way. Like, I'm so used to kind of like matured, more darker fantasy stuff now. Yeah. I know what you mean by that. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:05 And to see something that's very good. kid accessible friendly and to put you through the perspective of a child going through this i thought was just a very endearing heartwarming strong uh experience uh so yeah and i imagine like maybe back then i probably wouldn't have had any of those thoughts that i was just saying now especially yeah probably not you would have seen a movie is three hours 30 minutes it would have lacked in the box office because people would go it's three out and 30 minutes like what are we we can't be doing that yeah i think as a kid i was like this is perfect you know I think because I'm like, and I think because of those quick drops of exposition, which we obviously need, that it keeps the pace fairly quick.
Starting point is 00:12:46 Definitely. That it's great that they're able to keep the pace, but also they take time in like setting up a master shot. Let's not always be talking the entire time, which most films know you got to do that, give the audience a time to take a breath. But it still feels very well paced, even within that. that and all of the information that we're getting if you have not read the books is still digestible um i mean maybe not for i mean no you because you got to you got to pass a year of schooling in this fantastical school yeah one whole year right in two hours i know it's a lot to it's a lot to do and especially because we're we're and then we're thrown in where the
Starting point is 00:13:31 troll is released and we're meeting the three-headed dog like yeah even in the beginning we ran off and then we had to save Hermione and then she covered for us and now we become closer friends like you know what I want you all to tell me in the books after he she overhears Ron making fun of her in the books does Ron say sorry and I think you're cool I realize that they end up now in this going to save her and they're they just kind of go over it But I just want to know, how does Ron handle it in the books? I know we had more time there because you could see. She was very hurt by that.
Starting point is 00:14:10 He was literally calling you. He's like, she's a monster or whatever he said. He said something like that. And I'm very curious. But I'm glad that these three were cast and in the documentary they saw about his stunt guy, that they became obviously very close friends and that Harry was the one. that was the most the least experienced out of really everyone else and um i think that they both sort of brought him up and made him really comfortable even though all the three kids were
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Starting point is 00:18:56 or a house of the dragon at the time when Harry Potter came out. Right. So I think for 2001, it's pretty damn near perfect. I agree. You know, and then it's kind of like, oh, well, 24 years later, like, okay, I could see some of these other things that maybe nowadays you would kind of expect a little bit something to change. But I think for 2001 time, it's pretty near perfect.
Starting point is 00:19:14 Oh, yeah. It's a fun. And it's about surrendering to the adventure and the whimsy and the wonder. Yeah. And because all of that is like the fantastical elements really do hit. Like they make the world building. so alive it feels so rich i agree there's always movement happening not just in camera but in like background i thought like the the sets were remarkably lived in and felt like this historical architecture that
Starting point is 00:19:40 has existed that's a part of it it has to feel like it's existed for so long and it does feel like it's existed for so long and the presence of all the professors and the every one of the performers especially in the adult realm they really did do a lot of like amazing bringing these characters to life lifting them off the page and with the kids getting thrust it into this
Starting point is 00:20:04 not an easy thing to perform for it's a lot of fake green screen stuff you got to do but then there's like so much cool shit that they were still able to pull off like I actually feel like the quiddage scene was pretty remarkable for like 2001
Starting point is 00:20:19 it looks pretty great And it still has like the high adventure stakes of having to prove yourself. So yeah, there's like a little bit of stuff where you could see like, oh, yeah, Daniel Radcliffe definitely had room to grow as a child actor. But I feel like he does grow over time as a performer. And it's just kind of fun going back to when he first did this because there are certain beats where you're like, I could see how this probably should have been a little bit of a stronger emotion or something like that. or like a reaction here or something like that but you know a lot of it you do kind of just forgive for time and then also knowing of the trust of where it's actually going to go because for your first time first movie in this massive franchise it's a really strong starter for it I just know
Starting point is 00:21:09 that there's like some people are very religious about their Harry Potter experience they don't want anyone to have any type of opinion that falters on any type of criticism but oh and also but I I mean, yeah, I mean, we're going to, that, that's, yeah. And also the score really led to the emotion throughout every single scene. I mean, without it seeming like corny. Do you know what I mean? Because like, some of the songs reminding me a little bit of Christmassy that you would see sort of in a rom-com or it's like, like, I don't know how to describe it. That was not good what I just did, but you know what I mean.
Starting point is 00:21:48 And, and then, but then it would come back down and, and, and, and then, but then it would come back down and, and, and, and, You start to sort of not even remember that there's music. There was the whole point of a score, especially a good score, that you're not aware of how much emotion the score and the music is putting into what you are actually feeling. And this movie did a really good job of that. If I was Andrew, I would know exactly who scored it and what year and how many freaking movies he did. But, you know, I'm not. So we'll look it up later.
Starting point is 00:22:20 It's not John Williams. I forget who did. It's somebody obviously awesome, and I hope they keep them for all the movies because I really, really like the score in this. The part that when knowing something is coming that I would not have gotten on a first-time watch, but that I would get on a rewatch,
Starting point is 00:22:38 has to do with the quarrel reveal. Because it did dawn on me a little bit in. I'm like, wait a minute, and I think he's the bad guy. It dawned on me. So it got me to, like, pay attention, more to when he was on screen and the movie does an amazing job at messing with your perspective because they're throwing you into the kids perspective so this quarrel guy doesn't get like a shit ton of
Starting point is 00:23:02 lines or nowhere near as much emphasis on dramatic scenes as Snape does right but he's always there yeah he's always there so that when you go back you're like oh there are these clues that he was there and like especially at the quiddish scene when he is when he's mouthing they think he's cursing the broom and then the second Snape gets not he gets he's right behind him and he gets knocked and then if you look at the dialogue exchange when harry's in the invisibility cloak he is warning a quarrel not to go down the dark path and choose the right side like that's what he's doing there and but when you're watching the perspective it's like oh he's trying he's trying he's trying to get uh control control him on his allegiance path and like oh that's really smart yeah and i for sure would not
Starting point is 00:23:46 have gotten that on a first watch so like on a rewatch so like on a rewatch It's pretty cool to look back, remember one thing. And be like, oh, yeah, that is actually very smart on how they did it. Yeah, that was a really fun twist. It sort of reminds me of home alone. You know, they set it up that the guy next door is like a bad guy. That's sort of how we view it is the audience perspective for Snape. Like, because I really did think that.
Starting point is 00:24:11 It was funny. It's the guy who directed this, directed Home Alone. Really? Yeah. And now I'm putting him in together, like Harry Potter has a bit of a Kevin McHankeye. When he's living with his family. Oh, my God. This makes so much.
Starting point is 00:24:25 Yes, it's Chris Columbus. Chris Columbus directed home alone. Yeah, he's got, like the way he's living in this home is like a bit of a Kevin McAllister thing. It totally is. Oh, my God. It's so great because you know what? He's very good also with taking sort of set design and coloring.
Starting point is 00:24:43 And in your subconscious, you don't recognize it sometimes with the life. lighting and stuff, but he does a good job making you feel a certain way, like, oh, they feel out of place, or now they feel home. And it's all within lighting and clothing, like, honestly, and a color palette. Like, Chris Columbus is really good with that, but he has a, I mean, every film is made up of a freaking village. But, um, anywho, that's, that's funny. But it does remind me of the neighbor and then Snape and we had it all wrong.
Starting point is 00:25:16 And he did a really good job of. audience's point of view in Home Alone, you're in the view of Kevin McHauser. You're like, that's a bad guy. Oh my God. He didn't shovel up his kid in the snow. And then with Snape, for sure, with the scrape on his leg, especially from the beginning
Starting point is 00:25:32 and Snape's whole entire vibe in the way he talks. Sure, yeah. But you could the way that they set it up and then you're like, oh my God. Now as I view it, you could just go like, oh yeah, Snape just talks that way. All
Starting point is 00:25:48 that they would have to do and what they might do now with Snape is just in the way if we were to see anyone else react with him we would know he's probably not a bad guy right because Snape could be the way he talks he's like not had you known for a wizard like he sounds mean but I'm sure that the kids that know him the way that they may speak to him it may be off the handle it's like Oh, no, that's just Snape. That's how he is. We just didn't get to experience that. They kept us out of that.
Starting point is 00:26:21 So we were convinced he was the bad guy. Yeah, it was a smart maneuver. It was good. Brilliant's all around. I don't think I'll ever get around to reading the books. But it does feel like I watch literature come to life. I agree with you on that. Really good.
Starting point is 00:26:35 Wow. Chris Columbus. I love him. I can't believe. Yeah, duh. And I think, I mean, you brought the lighting. And I think there's exceptional use of lighting to tell you of because you have to hop back and forth between, you know, they set it up with Harry and Voldemore early on in the
Starting point is 00:26:50 story of like, hey, Harry, you know, like that, that Voldemort, when he was just a wizard, you know, he had choices too and he took some bad choices, right? So you got to make, so they're warning of like light and dark side of whatever you want to call it. And I think the lighting particular of this movie often fluctuates between like a light, wondrous, you know, scene and it's swelling to like, there's. a menace here and a threat and the lighting is often very indicative of when you're hopping between all that.
Starting point is 00:27:22 Yep. While having like brilliant, you know, I love when they build the shit. I love like the live action chess scene when you could see the mixture of with the troll when they built some troll stuff to make it real. Yeah. We're using real owls at times, you know, like though I love whenever they decided to go real on something. But I'm excited to dive further into the franchise.
Starting point is 00:27:44 Yeah. It's going to be fun. Yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun. I love watching this stuff, like, come together. And it is like I'm watching a prequel right now. And I'm like, oh, this is really cool. Yeah. Yeah, that was like such a twist.
Starting point is 00:27:56 And I loved it. Awesome. Awesome sauce, guys. What do you think about Harry Potter one? Is it perfect, untouchable? Leave your thoughts down below. You excited for the show. That movie made me feel really good.
Starting point is 00:28:08 When you first see a runtime like that, you're like, I don't know if I want to sit through this. Three hours? But a feeling moves by. It moves by fast, and it's a strangely feel-good time. It is. Thank you guys for being here. And, hey, we'll see you guys. Brian Perry.
Starting point is 00:28:28 Brian with an, oh, don't forget. Okay, so here's how this works right now. Okay, I'm going to guess what your name. Brian means John's going to guess whoever is closest wins. Rules are simple. Brian, I'm going to guess, Um, um, ruler of families. Broke singing language.
Starting point is 00:28:52 Roos of family. Ruler of family. Okay, I'm going to guess. Uh, it means some kind of bramble or vine plus a, uh, a buff, an arm, a strong arm. Okay. Okay. Hit enter. What do we got?
Starting point is 00:29:07 Brian is a masculine name of Irish origin that means. means higher noble it is a variation of brian with an a come on ruler of family you got it i mean that's pretty good that's a higher noble a noble is the ruler of whatever family or or township they're in so thank you brian guy that's one over my belt hell yeah

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