Comments on: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Review

By: Justice

Justice — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 04:01:23 +0000

I quite enjoyed it, and while it isn’t my favorite installment and perhaps was a little overstuffed with exposition, it is a very good conclusions. However, one of its greatest shortcomings, and one that has plagued all of David Yates’ entries: a complete lack of gravity or meaning in the deaths of major characters. Sirius Black, Dumbledore, and the deaths in the final movie are glossed over in a mere camera pan leaving no time for reflection and sorrow from the characters or the audience. Dobby probably had the most heartfelt death/funeral in the entire series!

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:55:01 +0000

completely agree wtih tony, nuff said

By: PlanBFromOuterSpace

PlanBFromOuterSpace — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:18:04 +0000

It’s not surprising that it lasted so long, because it was designed to do so. The blueprint was in place. If it hadn’t been based on a series of successful books, then yes, I might be surprised.

By: Napalm

Napalm — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:58:20 +0000

Hate it or love it, but you all have to agree that it’s an amazing feat for a franchise to last this long with this much financial and critical success.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:35:46 +0000

See people if the books fell into the hands of someone like Colin the story would not have gotten more than one movie. Colin, many of the Harry Potter film fans have never read the books and might never do so. They love the movies so your opinion that they are secondary does not stand on it’s own weight. Yes, this is all your opinion, but you have very bad taste for thinking that it would be better off as a trilogy. It’s too complex to fit it all in three. How you are a film critic I’ll never understand. You would get fired very quickly from any studio job. Stories are all about structure. When Chris Columbus did the first two he did jam as much as he could from the books, but when Alfonso Cuaron did the third he found a structure in the story that movies need to be relevant. Yeah, I was shocked at first at all the stuff he cut out, but looking back and watching it again I understand now. When I finally decides to separate the books from the movies, because in all reality books will always win so it wasn’t fair to compare, each movie after that has been a joy. Just holding back bit by bit until the finale was a brilliant strategy. There are some parts in the final six films that were different so they didn’t try to pack as much as they could from the books. I know you kind of enjoyed the film, but hopefully one day you will decide to watch all these movies again and realize that this was a wonderful story that unfolded nicely as each came out. If you keep it separated from the reading material you will see the brilliant cinematic structure. I’m not saying to conform with the overwhelming majority, but to have an open mind, forget the books for a while, and enjoy eight movies that tell one grand story.

By: Derek McFarland

Derek McFarland — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 04:36:57 +0000

I enjoyed the movie, mainly cause it was the final chapter, and was happy to finally complete Harry Potters
Journey towards the end….However I really expected to see more…. I mean, I thought I’d be seeing the Centaurs battling it out as well as some Dragons. Thought I’d be seeing Hagrid fight or even Lupus turn into a Were Wolf again; like he did in Askaban. It was good but it just felt rushed (to be over). The film was 2 hours long, but felt like it should have been longer. Just seemed like there were a lot of holes in the film. I give the movie about a 6 to a 7 in a half.
I kind felt the same way about the series finale for Smallville. I mentioned Smallville cause both series started and ended the same year, and I invested my time with both franchises

By: PlanBFromOuterSpace

PlanBFromOuterSpace — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:58:55 +0000

Despite this being one of the shorter installments, we still had customers that were surprised by how long the movie was when they asked when it got out. I mean, holy shit, if you’ve seen the others, you have no right to be surprised that it’s not a 90-minute movie or something.