Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Movie Commentary & Reaction) 

1 correction to something Sam said: The game does not end until the snitch is caught. So yes, the seekers could sit back and do nothing. But then, the game would go on forever.

Fun fact, during the filming the candles were real and were on fishing string and they would burn through it and then fall down on the kids. They made them CGI for the next films lol

I’m still kinda sad that the conversation about that gringots vault didn’t make it into the movie. The goblin tells them that if anyone other than a gringots goblin tried to get the door open with their own fingers, they would get sucked in and trapped. Harry asks how often they check for trapped people and the goblin says once every ten years!😈🤣

Yeeeyyy! Small note about the chess scene: Ron was the knight (without the horse) in the books, but a giant statue beating him with the sword was considered too gruesome for a kids’ movie so they changed it for the film… also, I have a very basic understanding of chess, but someone else pointed out to me that Ron is indeed an extraordinary player, as he is playing while protecting three pieces instead of one (plus sacrificing the first one just to see what happens) and still wins without severe consequences! That’s a big win and impressive skill indeed in my books

I’ve seen theories that Molly Weasley saw a lost little boy with an owl and was like “ohhhh he needs help…look at all these MUGGLES… platform NINE AND THREE QUARTERS THIS WAY!” 👀👀

The scream I screamed just now. Also to repeat from the first time this was posted… Neville is a cutie through the whole series.

When they play real life quidditch the snitch is often a person dressed in yellow that runs onto the field and sprints around avoiding the seekers and runs off again!😂

For americans confused by the title,the harry potter versions outside the us are different than the US, sorcerer's stone in us and philosophers stone everywhere else.

1:34:25 Hagrid reached out to The Potters old friends for photos and put the photo album together for him 😊🥹

36:31 Had me chuckling because that's what Harry initially thought too 😆(Wood? thought Harry, bewildered; was Wood a cane she was going to use on him?)

Yayy I'm so glad this one was able to be posted again!! I get what Maria means by just the first couple of notes of music being so nostalgic, bringing back many memories from my childhood ♡

Marias hair looks very cute like this!

The funniest detail for me is that James and Lily were supposed to be young - like, around 21 years old? And seeing them being portrayed here as much older, if not middle aged is so funny to me 😂

The mirror of Erised shows your true desire. Erised is Desire backwards.

Glad this got reuploaded it got taken down before I could finish last time

i absolutely love this movie series! i have watched so many peoples reactions on this now but so excited to watch y’all’s take on the whole series 💗 appreciating the movie for its art and not the artist

Remember that Wizards can use floo travel, apparate, and use portkeys to instantly travel very far away. So they probably don't mind quidditch being able to end fast.

Harry Potter is a good example of something you have to enjoy at a distance. If you start thinking about the plot too much or "why don't they use this thing introduced in that movie to solve this problem?", you will start to see the cracks. The many many cracks. Its better to take each movie for what it is and thats it.

The funny thing about the candles is in this movie they did use real candles hanging from wires from the ceiling. Looked cool but very dangerous when stuff started falling so after this movie it wasn’t practical lol. I laughed when you mentioned the candles potentially falling. In real life quidditch someone dresses up as a snitch and runs around and the players try to catch the person snitch on the other team haha.

OMG IM MISSING THIS CUZ OF WORK!! Although i'll watch it later, I'm so happy you both are doing Harry Potter, i hope you become Potter heads if you decide to continue ✨

Wow Maria is glowing today. Of course you always look gorgeous but today you just look so beautiful that red lipstick compliments your smile so stunningly! I'm trying to feel more comfortable wearing lipstick as I don't think I look very good with it. Love both of you guys videos been a long time fan of The Movie Budz and love this new addition. Thank you Sam, Thank you Maria 🥰

Amazing how 23 years have passed since Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone had premiered in theaters, and it STILL HOLDS UP!!!!! I was just only 13 years old by the time of the 1st installment, and couldn't wait to see what it had in store. Now, I'm 36 and still watching this and its entire franchise!!!!!😁

As far as the keys go: its not just because the key looks different, but Harry deduces that because "Snape" successfully got past the room, he must have caught the correct key - which has a broken wing from being caught.

Gotta love the in depth quidditch critique 😂 the more you think about it the less sense it makes as a sport but it does make some great action/comedy scenes both for the films and books. In the books they do practice though, just like any sports team instead of just having the matches. I get why they cut those from the films but they made the sports aspect feel more real and also were a great way to introduce more side characters.

Finally 🎉🎉🎉 Oh I didn’t know Sam barley remembered these films, I hope u can continue to react to them 😢 🙏🏼 I’m not a HUGE hp fan but I do like them! And just like Maria I would watch Harry Potter every year in winter too idk why it always played on tv during that time lol

Absolutely would love to see the reaction of the entire franchise. PLEASE do this!

Yesssssssss! Budz, I am DROWNING in school work and work work and this is perfect timing 😅😴🥲😂

So glad you two are reacting to this. It's my favourite series of all time. ❤

Yay! Fyi: you confused Dudley and Dursley because Dursley is their last name. Vernon, Petunia and Dudley Dursley

Owl poop are hard lumps. You could go to Harry Potter World at Universal Studios in Orlando, FL. When Voldemort tried to kill Harry, the house was blown up. A number of great actors played the adults. The first person getting to the flying keys, wouldn't know which key was the right one, there wouldn't a broken wing. During the chess match, Ron was handy caped because he couldn't lose Harry or Hermione.

Awesome reaction of my favorite Harry Potter movie!!!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

Yayy my childhood

A correction on the quidditch rules revolving around the Snitch, The Snitch is worth 150 points and ends the game, each goal with the quaffle is 10, so technically if the opposition scores more points than you plus the points from the Snitch, even if you caught it, you could potentially still lose.

Loved this videooooo!!! I suddenly thought maybe you should watch that 2004 Peter Pan live action, I think you'd like it

People reacting to Harry Potter is my favorite thing ever!!

52:20 a lot of people have said that if a reboot were to happen than Keanu Reeves or Adam Driver would've been the perfect Snape recast

I actually lived in a place with a lot of owls and suprisingly they dont leave a lot of shit. Its usually in a different place from their nest and it looks like hair balls and bone. It also doesnt smell. So it kinda blends in to the woodland.

❤❤ loved rewatching the commentary!

Yessss! I'm excited to rewatch these movies with you guys❤ Thank youuuu

in the book he gets the photo's just before he gives it to Harrry

I love this one tock tock that shows someone just combining Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin to create Hufflepuff. In that case, Hufflepuffs are the divergents of the Wizarding world.

The movie that helped me become even more of a weirdo at school. 😂 Love the franchise. Grew up watching these as they came out. I’m excited to see y’all get to the very end.

I think the whole Quiddich argument is valid, however I will say that I think the idea of going only to a game for 5 mins before the snitch is caught is balanced by the idea that a game could last days or weeks. It's the wizarding world! They don't have any other sports! They will put everything aside for a good game, especially the bigger games like the national finals or the World Cup. JK actually has a book "Quidditch through the Ages" which makes for an interesting read for all the dedicated potter heads haha

Quidditch can last a few minutes or a few years depending on when the seeker catches the snitch...so get your butt ready for the numbing X'D

The love thing only works against Voldemort specifically because she died to save Harry from him. Voldemort was in Quirrels body so he took the brunt of that protection! But Harry wouldn’t be able to do it to anyone else.

Sorry last one. I like the mcgonagall is the fair one. She believes in punishing kids, but she still understands that children are not adults yet and picks reasonable rewards and punishments. She also does not show bias to her own house. She punishes kids from her house and others. She doesn’t pick favorites, but she makes sure kids do get rewarded when they earned/deserved it.

Yay! I’m happy you guys were able to get this up.

The first Harry Potter film is probably the best one out of the series and the most quotable and iconic one 😊 I love all the actors portrayals of there characters especially Alan Rickman as Snape and Robbie Coltrane as Hargrid and Richard Harris as Dumbledoore who all three of them rocked it out of the park and who we unfortunately lost😔Rest in Peace to them 🙏 but overall this movie takes back to my childhood days and I still excited when I watch it so thanks for the reaction and can’t wait for the next movie you both do 😊😄❤️

Ravenclaws never got respect. Official merch doesn't even have the real colors or mascot 😭

I love that I have the same taste in series and movies like Maria...

I've always been a bit upset that Neville didn't get more of the points at the end. Ten points, if I remember correctly is the same amount they sometimes get when answering a question in class. Standing up against your peers/friends at that age is a big deal. But Ron's chess game got so much more (I know there was a sacrifice involved in that game, but I still think the points could've been more evenly distributed).

Also I love these movies so much! And your commentary is great! 😊

I would love for you guys to do the whole series

I did the house test on pottermore and I got Ravenclaw

This was a nice surprise to see up again 😊

For anyone who has the Peacock streaming service, you will have loads of fun because they bring in many deleted scenes that add to the experience. The best part is they don’t extend the run time that much.

That is Warwick Davis

I really appreciate the disclaimer at the start

1:22:08 easiest way I think of check/mate is comparing it w uno. U say uno when u have one card left as a mandatory warning of ‘hey , if u don’t do something I’m gonna win this’ check is the same. While check mate is when u throw down the last card w a booyah, nothing left for n e one to do because u just won.

I felt less bad about the points at the end when I realised that they were basically just getting the points back that they lost sneaking out to see Hagrid but also, the sheer amount of times that Snape takes points from every other house apart from Slytherin, especially Gryffindor and Harry, for virtually no reason and the fact that Slytherin wins it every year, I didn’t feel like it was as unfair. Most of this info is from the book though so it’s not a 1-1 adaptation, it’s just background context from the book that I think is canon also to the movies. Anyway, the points system is a rubbish, arbitrary system! Additionally, in the book, they sneak out to meet Charlie so he can take Norbert the Dragon to Romania or something and Malfoy sets them up to get caught so it’s not even about the philosophers stone or them being nosey or rule breaky. They were just trying to help Hagrid and his dragon. It helps me feel less angry with the ending !!! Lol !! But I still agree it’s not the uplifting fun ending it seems when you are a child!!

My favorite thing about the actress that plays Moaning Myrtle is that she was in Bridget Jones's Diary and her first appearance in the movie is her character crying in a bathroom 😂

Quitiditch is a stupid sport. I will say one of the things lost in translation between book to movies is that pro players are supposed to be super fast. Scoring so many points a minute that even if you catch the snitch it doesn’t mean your team automatically wins. This idea doesn’t work with kids playing it. Also hard to illustrate in a movie

I would love it if you guys watched the Underworld series too. As a redhead if Draco came up to me and said "Red hair, hand me down robe, you must be a Weasley." I would probably be so confused, Not all redheads are Weasleys. XD He was correct with Ron but I'm not, I would definitely have a hand-me-down as the 4th child of 5 kids, and I'm a redhead, (tho there is only 2 of the 5 of us with red hair, me and my eldest brother) I also have Cluster headaches, my grandfather had them for half his life and they were so bad he had to get a nerve cut in his left side of his face, because it was worse, And Now my doctor says I have a version of it that is less severe but it might get worse later in life, for now it's just Migraines but that I feel behind my left eye but it could get worse later. Also I genuinely hate the blatant favoritism with Dumbledore and Gryffindor house. The end you could have easily said, "I have a few more points to give." Then give the points then list the order of the houses and who won, but instead he listed them all and gave Slytherin false hope, they thought they won and imagine the punch to the gut at him being like "Oh yeah sorry losers, I'm going to give exactly the right amount of points for Gryffindor to win" he even waited and let them all celebrate for a few minutes, let it sink in then said it. I'm not even a Slytherin or a Gryffindor but it is bs. I'm a Hufflepuff, which means that I dont even have bias mindset, I'm just saying it's insanely rude and unfair to every house to list it that way, its just rude to every kid in that room. Even the Gryffindors, and while they all deserved those points he could have done it without being a jerk to every kid in Slytherin house.

Sam's critique of quidditch being able to end so early on is honestly something I've never thought about. Need more commentary on fantasy sports

About Dumbledore raining points on Gryffindor, if it makes you feel better; Slytherin had the lead basicly bc of Malfoy snitching. And well, what did Harry, Ron and Hermione do anyway? Just push back Voldy, trying to return to power. No biggie 🤷🏼‍♀️😁

Not only the game could end in 30 seconds...it could be never ending 😅

Jk weirdo made it “canon” that wizards used to shit their pants and magic it away. …..now you know.

Yeeey, we got it posted again. How did you fix the issue? And are we getting the next ones now?

Do you guys think you can react to the new Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in between Harry Potter lol? I actually wanted Sam and Stef to do it but this is better too!!!!

The mirror of ERISED..... Now turn the word around........ GET IT?!

29:30 Yeah Hufflepuffs are awlays wining baout how they're neglected but I'm not even sure we see a Ravenclaw student in the first movie. 36:15 In the book he only rises in the air then falls. Though I guess it could have been a good time for madam Hooch to use impedimenta or Imobulus. 38:15 It's Cerberus yes but it's pronoucned with a hard c and u in altin is pronounces like o in English, Kerberos not Serberus. Also in Harry potter Cerberus is the species name for that type of creature not the proper noun for any one creature. 39:45 Yeah in any update I would say the snitch should be worth about 3-5 goals not 15. 40:00 The spell wont work on yourself. When Vodlemrot learns to fly without a broom later in the series it's treated as a big deal. 45:15 Yeah Hogwarts teachers are stupid about giving out points to studnets who risk their lives. 49:00 well the Snitch being worth 15 goals is a problem for it working as a sport. 52:00 Well he's not too young because book Snape is 31 in the first book. 57:30 Is she? I really think she's enabling them not to learn to study on their own. 1:01:45 Yes those definitely looks like people who died at 21. 1:12:45 Minerva is completly correct here, it is perfectly well protected. 1:26:45 No, the elixir of life extends life it doe snot bring back the dead. No one can bring back the dead. Voldemort lies. 1:29:30 Which of course means the stone was always safe and the only thing that put it in danger was Harry. 1:30:45 I understand giving Gryffindor back the points they lost because of Hagrid, who is after all staff. But the points should have gone to Neville because he was the only one who did what you were suposed to. And again the stone was never in danger. But in the movie Gyffindor only loses 100 points due to that incident and Dumbledore gives Gryffindor 170 points.

I had deja vu for so long, I'm thinking "why do I know what Sam is going to say about the good, the bad and the ugly" at the start. Then it clicked, is this the same vid that was over on MovieBuds channel when you were trialling ways to work around no Stef?

I have vestibular or irregular migraines which are migraines that attack your vestibular system aka makes you super dizzy and confused so I feel you guys on that

More Harry Potter please

What shade of lipstick is that cos I really need it!?

Let’s perhaps not get into a discussion about magical shitting

Sam and Maria have you read the books ?

It this the Same channel that you and your friends use to recorded in ? just Asking

I❤Harry Potter!

is that a real spell? is that a real rat?

I know it might be a pain but still thank you for the message at the beginning. When I look at you and your channels I see and I know you guys are queer friendly but it still makes me, as a queer person, feel more comfortable and safer(?) when reactors and the like straight up say that they don't side with Joan's bigoted and dangerous views. Even more so since we see quite a few people who say they are fine with gay and bi people but hold nothing except hateful vitriol towards trans and non-binary people. So again, thanks for having the forethought to write that message.

Hogwarts is the original natural selection go to wrong Forrest ☠️