Okay, today I braved hundreds and hundreds of kids (okay...that's an overstatement...it only FELT like I braved hundreds and hundreds of kids) in order to bring this review to you. You're welcome. It's Harry Potter. You know, the kid in the glasses who has made billions of dollars, both on print and the big screen. That's right. People make fun of you growing up, calling your four-eyes and what not, and then someone writes a series of books about a four-eyes, and now that four-eyes is popular beyond belief. As a person whose worn glasses all my life, I'm proud of that fact. So for all the people who called me four-eyes growing up, all I have to say is you've probably paid over hundred dollars combined to find out the further adventures of that particular four-eyed kid, so how smart are you? Oh yeah, and eff you.
Anyhow, my childhood demons aside, this franchise has been amazingly good, I mean 6 movies in and not a bad one in the lot. They've gotten all the principal actors back (except for Richard Harris, and he would have been back, but unfortunately is deceased), and they've all been British actors, non of this American-pretending-to-be-British b.s. You know what this means. J.K Rowling might have written the books, but the Mafia is producing the films. This is unheard of! I seriously think Rowling sold her soul to the devil. There's no other explanation.
Well, people are calling this one one of the best of the franchise? Do I agree? No. I see that there's a lot more drama (and romantic entanglements) in this one than the others, the magic is about the same, the action is a little bit less. The best? This one still has plotholes, and for those who don't like spoilers, stop reading. Harry doesn't try and find out who the Half-Blood Prince is? I mean seriously, you're reading a spell book written by someone calling himself the "Half-Blood Prince", and you're not remotely interested in the author of said book? Then there's the relationship between Harry and Ginny...where exactly did that come from? Don't give me this horse manure either, about how she had a crush on him in the 2nd film, or how the camera took pains to catch her looks to him in the 5th film; let's face it, Ginny's been pretty much wallpaper since the 2nd film. Now she's Harry's main squeeze. Huh?
That being said, there isn't a lot to complain about. The actors are all back and if you liked them in the 1st film, well, you'll probably like them in this one as well. This movie is just building up to the climatic showdown we're all waiting to happen on the screen in the Deathly Hallows. Even with the (somewhat surprising) absence of Lord Voldemort in this film, we still have his Death Eaters running around, causing havoc, and he is very much still in charge. Hopefully, now that we've gotten rid of who-has-feelings-for-who in this film, we can get on with the good stuff, and get this conflict settled once and for all. Anyone expecting anything more than a setup for the final film(s), be warned. That's all this movie is.
I bid thee a fond goodnight
- Stephenstein
Rating 4 out of 5 stars.
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