This is a movie that answers any objection to computer animation with glorious or creepy sights that blend convincingly with the action. Is there indeed a Chamber of Secrets hidden somewhere in the vast pile of Hogwarts? Can it only be opened by a descendent of Salazar Slytherin, the more sinister of the school's co-founders? Does it contain a monster? Has the monster already escaped, and is it responsible for paralyzing some of the students, whose petrified bodies are found in the corridors, and whose bodies are carried to the infirmary still frozen in a moment of time? Do the answers to these questions originate in events many years ago, when even the ancient Dumbledore was (marginally) younger? And does a diary by a former student named Tom Marvolo Riddle-a book with nothing written in it, but whose pages answer questions in a ghostly handwriting-provide the clues that Harry and his friends need? (Answer to all of the above: Probably.) This puzzle could be solved in a drab and routine movie with characters wandering down old stone corridors, but one of the pleasures of Chris Columbus' direction of 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' is how visually alive it is. They sometimes seem to stand alone amid the alarming mysteries of Hogwarts, where even the teachers, even the august headmaster Albus Dumbledore ( Richard Harris), even the learned professors Snape ( Alan Rickman) and McGonagall ( Maggie Smith), even the stalwart Hagrid the Giant ( Robbie Coltrane) seem mystified and a little frightened by the school's dread secrets. In the new movie, Harry ( Daniel Radcliffe, a little taller and deeper-voiced) returns with his friends Ron Weasley ( Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger ( Emma Watson, in the early stages of babehood). The story is about personalities, personal histories and eccentricity, not about a superstar superman crushing the narrative with his egotistical weight. Although the young wizard Harry Potter is nominally the hero, the film remembers the golden age of moviemaking, when vivid supporting characters crowded the canvas. Rowling, who has created a mythological world as grand as 'Star Wars,' but filled with more wit and humanity. What's developing here, it's clear, is one of the most important franchises in movie history, a series of films that consolidate all of the advances in computer-aided animation, linked to the extraordinary creative work of J.K.

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