Harry Potter: Taken as a whole, the film series is very, very good, one of the grandest accomplishments in cinematic history, and quite possibly
the defining movie franchise of the
Turn of the Millennium. However, in the
Big Picture episode
"The Boot, Part Two"
, he said that most of the individual
Harry Potter films are quite disposable, varying wildly in quality and not holding up the way that individual entries in other series (like
Star Wars,
The Lord of the Rings, and the
Marvel Cinematic Universe) do. In particular, the films from
Chamber of Secrets through
Order of the Phoenix come off as filler (though he does regard
Prisoner of Azkaban as the point where it started
Growing the Beard), with one only needing to watch the beginning and end in order to understand the plot. He ascribes this to the fact that the films were being made before
the book series was finished, and argues that a reboot of the series would flow a lot better and have far less filler now that the most important story beats are known.