“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” thrills the audience with the usual fantastic action sequences, but this latest installment gives us something that many of the others lacked – real emotion from the characters. In this film, the sixth to come our way, we get a much better sense of what the characters are feeling, and the story is more grounded in the real world.
Harry Potter 6 brings Harry and the crew back to Hogwarts for their sixth year. However, both the wizarding and Muggle (non-magical) worlds are crumbling with Voldemort back in power. Harry suspects that dangers may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle that he knows is fast approaching. Together they work to find the key to unlock Voldemort’s defenses and thereby bring down the dark lord.
In this movie, the audience focuses less on the magic and more on the struggles of Harry, Ron, and Hermione – whether they’re discussing the worlds’ problems around them or just moping about their love interests. Now I’m not saying that this film is particularly well-acted, but we certainly see a greater emotional depth to these familiar characters. Harry Potter and his friends have matured, and so have the movies. This film, although somehow rated PG, is the darkest and most imaginative film yet.
The visuals in “The Half-Blood Prince” are as dazzling as any other Harry Potter movie, and there are enough thrills and laughs to entertain any audience. I don’t really understand the PG rating, actually, given the amount of innuendo, “snogging”, and one rather scary scene with zombies.
Fans of the movie franchise will love this latest entry, but as a huge fan of the books, I question some of the changes they made to the plot of the novel. I understand that not everything can be accomplished with two and a half hours of time, but I disagree with some of their creative choices. I won’t give anything away, but fans of the book will notice some big changes.
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” is an entertaining summer blockbuster that is definitely worth seeing by fans of the series.
A-
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was a real disapointment. I agree with the review listed above in respect to the fact that the latest Harry Potter addition does open a window into the internal stuggles of the Hogwarts sluth trio. There were many scenes that were down right hilarious. I don’t agree with the critic’s opinion that audiences will be satisfied with this latest movie however. Though there are really amazing visual effects that dazzled all of us there was a serious lack the good old fashion butt-kicking Harry Potter that we all know. The movie has little to no action. The Harry we all know is renowned for charging into battle wands a’blazing but in actuality he seems a little hesitant and even reluctant in this movie. There is a pitiful excuse for a fight scene in the middle of the movie that wasn’t even in the book. The scene had potential but they dropped the ball on that one so the situation ends as randomly as it began. The only reason that I can imagine that they included it would be to make up for the fact that there is no final fight scene in the movie. That’s right. You heard me. Readers were entertained and vindicated through characters in their battle with the death eaters inside Hogwarts at the end of the book but that battle NEVER occurs in the movie. The movie builds up to an exciting finishing sequence that people have been waiting two hours and fifteen minutes for only to realize, ‘Sike’! The bad guys just slip out into the night. I’m not worried about spoiling the ending for anyone because there really wasn’t much of one. I left he movie enraged that some movie bigwig thought it was ok to leave that part out. It’s not like they didn’t have enough time to shoot it especially after postponing the release date.
I grade this movie a ‘D-’ and title it “The Lamest Harry Potter Yet.”
It took me a day to figure out what exactly did I think about the movie.
I liked it, but the ending…I mean…it is based on the book and final fight is completly necessary…for those who didn’t read the book it is a funny, mysterious and entertaining movie, but for the one who read and were waiting all these years to see the images of a rich story is very disappointing…the emotions are high and we can finaly see some of the things we’ve been waiting for, but even that in one side is simply too “to your imagination”…but it’s a catchy movie…the two hours and more of film I didn’t get bored or anything…just expected a best ending…more loyal to the book, because it wouldn’t make the movie bigger it would be just a matter of changing silly scenes for the real ones.
I’m was very disappointed by the sixth movie. I waited all this time after reading the book to see this movie and it was all just a waste! From the fifth book on its suppose to be more serious and show us what harry is up against! This movie seemed more like a comedy than anything serious. Also they include scenes that were never in the movie and that will seriously affect the 7th movie! I mean come on making the burrow burn down at the hands of belatrix?@! Really now then where in the world is harry going to go to in the beginning of the 7th movie? Where are Fleur and bill going to get married!? talking about them, they were never in the movie at all when they should’ve been! AND THE ENDING! What kind of an ending is that? The fight scene that occurs inside hogwarts is one of the most essential scenes and they just left it out like that! When I came to this point in the movie i was just enraged. I wasted WASTED my money in going to see it. And what made me even more enraged was the fact that they don’t even show Dumbledores funeral! There were many important scenes left out to be replaced with what? Teenagers making out and falling in love!? thats only a teeny tiny part of it, not the WHOLE DAMN MOVIE! This was truly a huge disappointment to me who is a huge fan and adores the books but is really starting to dislike the director of the movies. Can we please have a better director for the seventh?
The movie was very dispointing, especially if you’ve read the book. There were many mistakes and did not even come close to the other Harry Potter movies. They added too much romance (yes I know there is some in the book) by making Ginny act like a fool, tieing Harry’s shoelaces, feeding him stuff, etc. They added a scene (when Bellatrix shows up and lights the Weasley house on fire) that was pointless and never happend in the book and took away a scene (it was in the book: The battle at the end at Hogwarts between the DA, Tonks, Lupin, etc.) that could’ve been breathtaking, if that had chosen to do it. They even pushed the limits of it’s quality further by adding fake facts, such as Dumbledore, being headmaster being able to apparate out of Hogwarts. The scene with the Inferi and Horcrux was also poorly done, with having Harry pointlessy and unnessarily falling and being dragged into the water. Dumbledore wasn’t even coherant until they apparated back to Hogsmeade (according to the book). Also, when Bellatrix broke all the windows in the Great Hall (again, only in the movie), they left them broken until a day or so later when a second year could’ve easily repared them! And the scene where all of Hogwarts raised their wands to get rid of the barely visable Dark Mark was ridicoulous! And Hagrid had a wand! Not his umbrella! Snape was also not nearly as mean as he was or is supposed to be and his hair was weird this time. All in all, it was alright, but very, very disapointing.
I think that it is sad that so many people want to see violence instead of love. I personally think they left out the fight scene at the end to maximize the impact of Dumbledore’s death.