But its mammoth success remains a foregone conclusion. With Pottermania perhaps having cooled over the course of a year from the heat level of a burning furnace to that of a happily bubbling cauldron, it can’t be expected that “Chamber of Secrets” will hit the dizzying commercial heights of “Sorcerer’s Stone,” which at $967 million total gross ($317.6 million from the U.S.) stands as the No. Darker and more dramatic, this account of Harry’s troubled second year at Hogwarts may be a bit overlong and unmodulated in pacing, but it possesses a confidence and intermittent flair that begin to give it a life of its own apart of the literary franchise, something the initial picture never achieved. While “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” may slavishly adhere to its source novel nearly as much as its predecessor did, it is on every count a better movie than last year’s first film installment in the telling of the story of a young wizard’s startling education.
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