Best HP Movie Yet...Yayyy, It Didn't Suck =)

The sixth Harry Potter movie was by far the best!!!! This being said despite sitting next to a woman with a squirrel in her throat (well, I could only assume by the horrifying laughter she emitted every other minute for the 153 minute duration of the movie) who enjoyed eating peanuts (which I'm deathly allergic to) for half the movie. Just when I was about to say something, she put the peanuts away, but I still got the hives on my face and itchy eyes/nose/throat/everything. I need to remember to keep my epi-pen with me at all times..hmm..anyway....

BEST HP movie yet! This is the first one since Richard Harris' death where I didn't want to punch Dumbledore in the face! Michael Gambon actually created a likeable, funny, and true-to-the-book Dumbledore, so I could not complain. It actually made me care when Dumbledore dies (SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE!). This was also the first one that didn't provide me with even one example of horrid acting. Usually Rupert Grint's annoying blah acting (that's really the only way to describe it) gets me down or I'm making a face at Emma Watson's lack of subtlety with her over-the-top stage acting, but they really didn't give Grint much acting to do, and Watson has toned it down significantly. Hooray! Also, they made sure to give most of the more...well...legendary actors their due screen time. Julie Walters, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman (love)...etc....every move and/or facial expression...perfect. And I'm a sucker for Snape/Alan Rickman. Nothing Rickman can do is wrong. And Snape is the best character no matter what. So there.

The story didn't seem rushed or anything. It probably helped that I didn't reread the book before I saw the movie, so I couldn't get too pissed about missing pieces. I just felt that the story was paced well and it was easy to follow, which hasn't been the case for the last couple of HP movies.

Soundtrack sucked. I think. I didn't notice it, and the few times I did it wasn't awe-inspiring like previous soundtracks. But it also didn't distract me from the actual movie, unlike previous soundtracks. So take that for what it's worth.

The movie did focus a lot on relationships. Which, hey, who doesn't focus on relationships when they're 16 years old like the characters in the movie? The only thing that sucked about this was the fact that the theatre I was in was chock-full of friggin' 16 year olds. Therefore, my brain was brutally murdered with the amount of giggling I heard tonight. Every time one character looked at another or kissed another or said one friggin' word to another I heard a chorus of high pitched giggles that reminded me of the torture of a middle school dance. I mean, don't get me wrong, the acting and writing in the movie made the teenage romance very entertaining, I chuckled lots. But for some reason (perhaps I'm bitter) I couldn't stand to hear the giggles that likely produced gushy diary or -worse- livejournal reviews of the movie and how it coincided with the writer's teenage lust.

Anywho, go see the movie. It was the best HP movie so far and I can't wait to see it again...quietly and alone in my home. hooray!

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