Emma Watson - Reviews from Philosopher Stone Era
EPINIONS.COM
I was especially impressed by young Emma Watson's masterful
portrayal of Hermione Granger. I have trouble believing
that “Harry Potter” is her first film, and
I suspect she is destined for a great career.
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Hermione Granger is played by Emma Watson, Emma is a
very beautiful little girl, so it's nice they gave her
that wacky hair to offset it. She's nicely snotty and
could certainly grow up to be a supermodel if she could
keep the whole Hermione attitude! Although I doubt that's
what is in store for Hermione! Emma is good and will
get even better.
SUN-TIMES.COM
The friends are Hermione Granger (Emma Watson), who's
merry face and tangled curls give Harry nudges in the
direction of lightening up a little.
ARTS TODAY.COM
Only young Emma Watson as Hermione Granger has the speed
and self possession onscreen to really bring her character
to life .
STARTRIBUNE.COM
The best reading comes from Emma Watson who captures
Hermione's precocious energy.
ALL-REVIEWS.COM
Easily the best is scene stealer Emma Watson as Harry's
companion Hermione Granger. This first-time screen actress
has an endearing type A personality that reminds one
of what Reese Witherspoon must have been like when she
was young.
MOVIECRITIC.LA
Watson , who plays Hermione Ganger was simply amazing,
especially considering that this is her acting debut.
HACKWRITTERS.COM
Harry, Ron and Hermione are played with great enthusiasm
by Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson respectively.
However, Miss Watson just wins by a nose in the acting
stakes with her hilairiously precocious performance.
M MOVIES
Emma Watson is adorable as the know-it-all with a heart
of gold.
FILMCAN
Emma Watson was absolutely adorable as Hermione. She
was perhaps my favourite character in the show.
MOVIE MANIA
But the one actor who slips so naturally into her role
that she hardly seems to be doing any acting at all
is Emma Watson. With her unruly head of curls and tiny
turned-up nose, Watson IS Hermione Granger, the smarty
pants who proves to be a staunch friend in need.
ALL-REVIEWS DVD
Watson is easily the standout, developing Hermione into
a girl who may get good grades in school but is insecure
of herself on the outside.
ALLPOP.COM
Watson, with her pointy raised chin and pursed lips,
is the perfect little snoot who can turn the remark,
“WHAT. AN. IDIOT”, into three clipped sentences.
She's an exceptionally beautiful child with palpable
charisma.
DR J AT THE MOVIES
Watson as the brainy Hermione is appropriately feisty
as one the minority females at the school, reminding
me somewhat of a young Anna Paquin (and she has a great
accent too) .
UNKNOWN
Emma Watson is adorable and utterly charming.
SCOTT'S MOVIE REVIEWS
Watson is witty, wise and irresistible to watch.
AICN REVIEWS
Of the three young actors, it is Emma Watson that I
am absolutely delighted with. Her character feels so
real and honest. The girl that wants to be one of the
boys, who wants to succeed and will work hard for it,
but is pigeonholed by others as being a know-it-all
and rude….when she is just trying to help and
assist. Both the girl and the character are my faves.
MAINETODAY.COM
Watson is especially excellent as the know-it-all brainiac
Hermione. She's got the holier than thou, haughty attitude
down brilliantly.
FILMCRITIC.COM
Watson, as the precocious Hermione, is smart and energetic
taking a bigger bite out of this movie than any other
actor.
Fox97.1 FM REVIEW
Emma Watson, though way to cute to play the on-the-page
bucktoothed Hermione, actually makes the strongest impression
of the bunch the girl knows how to sell her lines as
the bossy teacher's pet .
XALT REVIEWS
Watson is as cute as a button
OFFBEAT ENTERTAINMENT
Watch out for young Watson in the future. She is a feisty
little actress and she steals the show away from the
non- descriptive Harry Potter.
DARK HORIZONS
The kids that play Ron and Hermione are great talents,
especially the young actress playing Hermione. She is
a talent to look out for.
MSNBC.COM
Emma Watson is Hermione, a pert lass of sass and brilliance.
SERBIAN CINEMANIAC
Watson was my single favourite performance of the film.
Could she be ant more perfect? She got the overachieving
aspect of the character, she got the emotional-girl-inside-the-hard-shell
aspect, and managed to build her performance to perfection.
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS DAILY
It is particularly noticeable when Emma Watson comes
onscreen as Harry's bud Hermione; a complete newcomer
to acting, she has a charisma that is almost magical.
WEEKENDER ONLINE
Damned near stealing the entire show for me is Emma
Watson in the part of Hermione Granger, the girl wizard.
She's saucy, wise, bossy, impertinent and very cool.
An absolute jewel.
DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Emma Watson who plays Hermione, manages to be fussy
and fretful while still being likable- no easy feat
for an actor of any age.
BIKKIT.COM
Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) nearly steals the movie.
She Is fantastic.
E.W.COM REVIEWS
Emma Watson summons the know-it-all imperiousness of
Hermione Granger.
NEEDCOFFEE.COM
Watson is perfectly the picture of bookish arrogance,
and plays the part to the hilt.
BAYAREA.COM
Finally Watson makes an entrancing entrancing debut
as Hermione, the bookworm, the know-it-all who plays
by the rules and tsk-tsks the boys when they don't.
Physically she is prettier than we expected Hermione
to be, with a mane of wild hair and stormy dark eyes.
At 10 Watson has the gift of a precocious child, that
of being simultaneously snooty and charming. Meeting
Harry and Ron for the first time, she considers the
two of them, informs Ron that he has dirt on his nose
then turns on her heel with a sharp “pleasure”
and flounces off, leaving us utterly hooked.
SEATTLE TIMES
But the real comic timing here comes from 10 year old
Emma Watson, who brings a delightfully self satisfied
bounce to the bossy Hermione. She flounces about making
pronouncements, tossing back her hair and wrinkling
her little nose – I see a Meg Ryan-like future
for this kid.
NEWSWEEK REVIEW
Emma Watson delights as the brainy, supercilious but
always game Hermione.
SLATE REVIEWS
The prepubescent Watson is absurdly alluring to those
of us who always went for the bossy girls; when she
fixed her sharp brown eyes on Radcliffe and said “Harreh
do be keh-ful” my heart did about five somersaults.
DENVERPOST.COM
Had I not read the book, I would have wondered why this
film wasn't called “Hermione Granger and the sorcerer's
stone”. Newcomer Emma Watson is such a young charmer
with her luxuriant pre- Raphaelite hair and bold, proud
smile, and is so expressively alive as Harry's sometimes-annoying
but loyal pal Hermione, that she's the movie's true
child star.
NEWSDAY REVIEW
….nor as disarmingly charming as Hermione Granger,
whom 10 year old Emma Watson plays to the hilt.
ORLANDOSENTINEL.COM
And Emma Watson as Hermione is an adorable know-it-all,
the kid in the class with her hand up first.
UNKNOWN :
Emma steals the movie for me more than anything else.
Her one liners and superior attitude are delivered with
a degree greater than perfection and highlight EVERY
scene she is in. Frankly, I don't ever expect that fine
a performance from a child. When Oscar time comes around
don't be surprised to see her on the ballot. Again they
fell short on living up to the book simply because she's
a very cute little girl and the book clearly describes
a very plain looking girl with huge front teeth. However,
it's excusable simply because of the extraordinary performance
put forth.
EPINOS.COM
The third member of the youthful core trio is Miss Hermione
Granger. Born to Muggle (non-wizard) parents, she has
completely thrown herself into her studies. She comes
to Hogwarts already knowing most of the course material,
and she wants to make everyone aware of that. She is
extremely intelligent, but she sometimes uses that as
a front to hide her emotional sensitivity. Emma Watson
is truly the most brilliantly shining star in the movie.
From the moment I first saw her on the Dateline NBC
Harry Potter special, a week before the movie came out,
I knew that she was absolutely perfect for the part.
All British children seem to have a scary sort of Children
of the Corn thing going on, where they speak and act
years older than they are. But Emma Watson truly is
eleven going on thirty. Her manner and bearing are supremely
confident, and this carries over well into Hermione's
personality. Emma is actually somewhat prettier than
Hermione is supposed to be at this stage in the game,
but it doesn't adversely affect anything. In point of
fact, Emma positively smolders on the screen. I never
knew that an eleven year old could be sultry, but dammit,
she is! Her delivery is clever and clipped, and her
eyes say more in an instant than a thousand words could
.
UNKOWN :
The real treat among the kiddies is Emma Watson. She
plays little-miss-know-it-all Hermione Granger. Hermione
is that kid in school who always wrecks the curve. Her
smarts in this film are equally matched by her sense
of timing. While the "funny" lines may have
been written for Ron, it's Hermione with her deadpan
that got the laughs from me. If you've read the book,
you are in for a real treat. Everything about Emma is
Hermione. Her facial expressions, her tone and her attitude
are all perfect.
DVD MOVIE CENTREL
But the real scene-stealer is fresh-faced Emma
Watson, who lights up the screen in every scene she
appears in and invests Hermione with winsome charm.
MOVIE MANIA
Though way too cute to play the character of Hermione,
Emma Watson does leave a strong impression (that girl's
obviously bursting with talent) - her cool, acidy lines
are uttered with total confidence, and she struts around
so naturally that it looks as if she were 'made' for
this role. Yes, keep a look out for young Emma Watson,
everyone.
LYCOS REVIEWS
As for the real actors, Emma Watson is a gem as Potter's
bookish sidekick and crush Hermione Granger, who almost
steals the movie
THE OWLERY
Emma Watson is probably the best actress at her age.
She is also a great actress on any level. She had one
of those few breakthrough performances of 2001-2002.
No one could have done a better portrayal of Hermion
Granger! Emma did the best work out of all people (other
than J.K. Rowling) involved in 'Harry Potter' the movie!
If I can refrase a line from the movie to inculde Emma
then I must say:
"It is clear that we can expect great things from
you, Miss Watson!"
SEATTLEPIE.COM
Watson is so totally endearing as their beautiful, bossy,
busybody of a girl pal that she comes perilously close
to stealing the movie.
NIGHTCOASTER
debut performance of Emma Watson, who makes the film
worth watching all by herself.
THE POPCORN CHRONICLE'S :
Much the same could be said for Emma Watson, who breathes
life and fun into what could be a terminally obnoxious
character, Hermione Granger. Watson is a beauty in the
works and she makes her professional debut in POTTER,
having only acted in school plays prior to this fortuitous
casting. She's loaded with confidence and sass and the
net result is that Hermione is much more likable on
the screen than on the printed page.
EPINIONS.COM :
True star power also radiates from little Emma Watson,
still not twelve years old, who will be reminding movie
viewers of Julia Roberts in another decade. By that
time, the half-pint will have the experience Roberts
now has and uses to bully roles such as Erin Brockovich
into submission.
Emma Watson is a lovely, sweet, yet thoroughly annoying know-it-all Hermione Granger. A might too lovely, yes, but possessing a depth that I didn't find in the literary Hermione until the later books. She takes no backseat to either Harry or Ron and represents the "fairer sex" with strength, somehow managing to make overachieving endearing.
Dizzy heights review: Emma Watson also shines as Hermione,
though I'd argue she's way too cute for the part. The
Hermione in the book was buck toothed and not all that
attractive, whereas Watson looks like a stunner in the
making.
