After geeking out last weekend with an ABC Family Harry Potter weekend, I am practically vibrating in anticipation of the final film, ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.’ It will be bittersweet and the last time I can wear my “I Get Sleazy for Ron Weasly” shirt in good company. Reviews for the film are starting to appear and they are reassuring so far…
Reviews for ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2’ from 48 film critics are already in. The privileged few who have gotten to see the movie before its July 15th release are singing the praises of the culmination of the story of Harry, Voldemort and the Wizarding World. (This makes me wonder why I am not a privileged film critic and just a humble blogger that writes about what Lindsay Lohan snorted, was arrested for or stumbled over while drunk on a daily basis.)
Currently, of the 48 reviews only 2 are negative. (Those two downers stem from the same cinema site.) The rest are far more impressed and perhaps better understand the mammoth undertaking of turning the book to a film that captures every facet.
New York Post – “Part 2, the shortest film of them all, turns out to be everything a summer blockbuster should be but rarely is — a whip-smart, slam-bang piece of entertainment where we deeply care about the fate of the central characters (and many subsidiary ones who return for their last bows). After all, we’ve gotten to know them over nearly a decade (the first “Potter” film was released a couple of months after 9/11), and I’m happy to report the finale is definitely, positively worth the wait.”
Time Magazine: “The sublime supporting cast, brought back if only for glimpses here, remind us that the series is a luscious, perhaps unparalleled showcase for this generation’s most endearing British actors. And the children, now adults, in the main roles have matured ably along with their characters. On both sides of the camera, all have performed inventively and honorably, faithful servants to the wizard in chief, Joanne Rowling.
Entertainment Weekly: “With so much heightened action and wrenching emotion, pacing is key. And here Yates and his outstanding production team excel. In an episode nearly bursting — at times precariously flooded — with the abundance of Rowling’s imagination, the narrative clicks together like an enchanted puzzle.”
Associated Press: “David Yates has accomplished the difficult task of bringing it all to a close in satisfying fashion. Having directed the last four of the eight films, Yates has provided a momentum and cohesion to the “Harry Potter” canon, which has gotten progressively darker and more mature. And Steve Kloves, who’s written all but one of the screenplays in the series, has once again risen to the challenge of trying to please purists and casual viewers alike in adapting Rowling’s revered writing.”
MSN Movies – “In the end, the thing works like, well, magic, to the extent that this reviewer, who is still not entirely sure what a horcrux is, now that he’s learned to spell it, got kind of choked up at the film’s very sweet and not at all inapt postscript.”
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I have my midnight showing ticket and camping gear and tent ready to go!