Rachael MurphyHarry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
July 15th 2009 17:26
Right back to the movie. In this year six at Hogwarts we find our little friends growing up and falling in love and that is pretty much what the first half of the movie is about. We meet the new teacher Prof. Slughorn who is actually not a new professor but an old one who used to teach at the school when Tom Riddle( now lord Voldemort the movie tells us this about ten times in case we had forgotten.) was a student there. In the second half of the movie we get a little bit more action but not a whole lot more. This movie is serious lacking in solid set pieces and it trys to make up for it with emotional charatcer bonding and a scribbled on book but it is not made up. The book in question here is the one that introduces us to the idea of the half blood prince and when I say Idea I mean the words half blood price because the movie neglects to develop any ideas what so ever about what that might mean. We do find out who it is but it is a fairly unspectacular moment.
This edition is darker again than the previous ones have been and it may seem like a stand to say that now because I think they have pretty much said it every time but it honestly is. It is more grown up and as such the acting required is more demanding and to its credit most of the cast stand up to that, they lift the characters out of their stage school baby state and make them something you can relate to. There is even blood and violence which the other movies left out for fear of their juvenile audience. I have heard it told that the filmmakers respect that the audience has grown up along with the movie and in this they are showing that. the downside to that is though that some of the charm of the earlier movies is lost as well as the sparkle and excitement of this universe but it pays I think to have made the switch because the action(or lack of it) would not have worked in that more childish of contexts.
There was a lot I liked about the movie but I would rather have waited for DVD.
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