With Prisoner of Azkaban being my favorite story in the Harry Potter series to date, I went in with high expectations. I came out of the theater very disappointed in the movie.

UPDATED: August 14, 2016 at 8:26 AM PDT You can tell “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” is going to be a different kind of Harry Potter movie right from the first sepia-toned shot.

When she delivers a crosscut to Draco Malfoy’s jaw, she says “That felt really good!” Snotty Malfoy is a one-dimensional rich-boy target, but it does feel good. It feels brilliant.

A passionate and magical debate There's something kind of hot about Draco's long-standing bad boy routine. The kernel of my feelings for Draco began in 1999 while reading The Prisoner of Azkaban.

3 1/2 stars out of 4 Turning 13 suits our intrepid Hogwarts students just fine in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Harry, given all he's gone through, has some justifiable teen angst. Wi… ...

But all that changes in installment No. 3, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (opening Friday). You see, the wannabe witch gets to slug school bully Draco Malfoy — and it's a rather ...

Prisoner of Azkaban is based upon the upcoming third film in the series, which is in turn based upon the third of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels.