Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabanmentary
Added 2023-12-22 11:00:08 +0000 UTCOn our final commentary of the year, we’re chatting over what is possibly the best entry in the franchise, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban! How refreshing is it to get a wildly better director at the helm? Why did Dumbledore think Hagrid was cleared for teaching? How funny is that executioner fella’s get-up? Is this the grossest werewolf design in film history? And is there a soul alive who doesn’t know we despise J.K. Rowling? PLUS: Turns out Professor Snape has a goon cave beneath the school!
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard Griffiths, Fiona Shaw, David Thewlis, David Bradley, Michael Gambon, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Tom Felton, Matthew Lewis, Timothy Spall, and Gary Oldman as Sirius Black; directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
If you need to restart your commentary sync, remember that the commentary proper begins at 00:05:25 of this audio track and we start the blu-ray at the 00:00:05 mark!
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Cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
And one more time for Slow Joe in the back row, we despise J.K. Rowling!
Comments
Incredible
Ray
2025-02-25 06:15:56 +0000 UTCJohn Williams is fucking cooking in this movie
Ray
2025-02-25 06:12:10 +0000 UTCThat bit at the end with the broom actually happened at Christmas in the book so he didn't know it was from Sirius and the school confiscated it to test it for curses
Kureigu
2024-01-25 15:38:13 +0000 UTCOmg I am very late to this party but I howled at "playing guitar in AFI haircut"
Cat Ruth-Coleman
2024-01-03 18:17:52 +0000 UTCIf you took a drink every time they say goon or gooning you'd be dead.
Mark D Myers
2023-12-28 19:36:06 +0000 UTCThe predator was great!
Mark D Myers
2023-12-28 18:36:08 +0000 UTCI will never forget the Newsweek article that explained the director considered the opening scene with him practicing magic under the covers was a metaphor for masturbation. I kept that knowledge in my brain for TWENTY YEARS
Brendan Kneeland
2023-12-25 15:55:38 +0000 UTCIt would really help with so many things, especially once Voldemort comes back!
Tony King
2023-12-25 12:15:21 +0000 UTCThese commentaries have quickly become my holiday tradition and they’re so worth the wait every year. Thank you for your popcorn 🫡
Vicky I
2023-12-25 03:35:34 +0000 UTCThis made my week and holiday weekend so much more bearable, I've been laughing until I cried, thank you so much for this. And thank you for all the years of helping me out by being a welcome distraction.
Convincing John
2023-12-25 01:13:47 +0000 UTCHe was in the family for more than a decade, so he's seen the entire Weasley family masturbate
Kevin Lynch
2023-12-25 00:49:50 +0000 UTCI had to look it up as I once went to a nerd bar that servered HP themed drinks. https://simply-delicious-food.com/dementors-kiss-cocktail-recipe/#:~:text=Make%20the%20cocktail%3A%20Combine%202,chilled%20martini%20glasses%20and%20serve
Daniel Town
2023-12-24 21:16:01 +0000 UTCThis was my favorite from the series for a while. It's a bit dumb to introduce thr ability to do time travel and it's never used again.
Darryl Bowen
2023-12-24 18:09:54 +0000 UTCMerry Christmas, ya filthy animals.
MarkNM
2023-12-24 17:25:35 +0000 UTCHarry is such a legacy admission. His trust fund pays his tuition. Really.
Jacobi Smith
2023-12-24 03:35:24 +0000 UTCI'm already anticipating next year's commentary, GoF is my favorite of the series (book and movie) and there's also SO much to make fun of. I hope you guys are around long enough to go through all of them. The podcast I mean. Not that you're dying, probably. The music in this one is extra gorgeous though. And I love the little scenes showing the passage of time on the school grounds. Also the freeze frame is always a surprise somehow, truly an incredible choice.
Rhea
2023-12-23 22:16:41 +0000 UTCI wonder if this is the movie that ignited the Draco/Hermione ship (Dramione of course).
Tala Hobballah
2023-12-23 17:53:51 +0000 UTCI think they mentioned it in the first one. Andrew says it a few times. I've seen these commentaries too many times lol
Ray
2023-12-23 06:38:10 +0000 UTCTo Andrews point, the shrunken head wasn't even in the book I don't think and if it was it certainly wasn't doing that accent.
Ray
2023-12-23 06:37:30 +0000 UTCJust one little factoid you guys might find amusing if you continue to do these commentaries... Hagrid is actually a half-giant. His dad was a regular guy, and his mother was a literal GIANT WOMAN.
johnny stocker
2023-12-23 06:34:24 +0000 UTCHaven't seen this either. Here we go! (And Rowling is horrible.)
Leesha Olivier
2023-12-23 01:30:06 +0000 UTCOne, no pressure, but really hoping we get Goblet of Fire sooner rather than later, Two, was waiting for your reaction for the final freeze-frame, and it did not disappoint. Three, one implicit detail I thought you would've jumped on - Timothy Spall in rat form has most assuredly witnessed MOST of Ron's masturbation sessions, right?
Tyler Weeks
2023-12-23 01:23:45 +0000 UTCAlso a 12/30 baby, so seconded on the best Xmas/Bday present, very excited to listen tonight.
C & B
2023-12-22 21:04:26 +0000 UTC“What, is this kid playing Quail Man or something?”- Eric. Shit this line made me cackle like a child. With the reminder of who Quail Man is with that Doug episode, fuck that was funny
RJ Cunningham
2023-12-22 20:24:07 +0000 UTCOnly thing that makes me sad is it’s gonna be another year until we get GoF
James Marron
2023-12-22 20:23:51 +0000 UTCIts weird watching the film and muttering to yourself "that actor has sided with Rowling, that actress has sided with Rowling"
Matthew Lloyd
2023-12-22 18:59:32 +0000 UTCThe best content at christmas let’s gooo
Owen Brann
2023-12-22 17:51:25 +0000 UTCOne thing I know is Noram Woodbender or Ward Rackley would never watch this flick
RJ Cunningham
2023-12-22 14:12:36 +0000 UTCYes yes yes! You guys always give the best Xmas, (plus my birthday's the 30th so also birthday) presents!! These commentaries fill me with joy unbounding, especially the HP ones! The perfect means of making it through a day of workish drudgery! Thanks again, you guys are the best! The only way it could be a better WHM Xmas is if we get a new Hooked on T.J. Hooker episode. Come on fellow blue suits, let's open up our traditional bean dinners and believe! Get set to wear the blue, and the wizarding robes!
Zora McBride
2023-12-22 11:22:53 +0000 UTC
