25-07-2009, 10:45 PM
Ah, movie #6 in the series. Must be terrible, right? Rawng.
If I had to watch any one of the 6 Harry Potter movies currently available, I'd definitely pick this one. I'm not sure how long this review will be, but here's the skinny:
- Best scenes of any Harry Potter movie.
- Weakest plot of any Harry Potter movie.
- Best acting of any Harry Potter movie. *
- Worst acting of any Harry Potter movie. *
* some people did an awesome job, some people lost the contest.
Best Scenes
Ok, so, why are there some of the best scenes? Simple, the theme of choice in the movie was "intoxication". People were getting drunk literally all the time.
I was under the impression that "Butter Beer" was like "Root Beer", a delicious non-alcoholic beverage. Wrang, it get Granger buzzing after a few sips.
The "big mission" in the movie was pulled off when Harry takes some potion that gets you good intuition and a good strong buzz, then goes down to Hagrid's place with a teacher to get them both completely drunk (to the point of the giant passing out).
The showstopper in the movie (an old professor) was seemingly permadrunk. He was awesome, and the greatest hero of them all.
Aside from that there's two random girls who are infatuated with Harry and Ron respectively. Ron's admirer is insane as in, worships the ground he walks on while Harry's is insane as in... might end up poisoning you insane. Hilarity ensues. Some random guy is obsessed with Granger as per usual, but, as per usual, he's uninteresting and definitely not entertaining.
Aside from getting people drunk, or under the influence of infatuation potions, there was some good stuff with Harry telling people they had just eaten "Dragon Balls" and other such goodness.
Weak Plot
Yes, the plot was weak. Unfortunate, I know.
Once again there is a "big secret" that Harry needs to uncover. Once again, when you look back, the secret turns out to be useless.
Basically the plot doesn't even start till the last third of the movie, and when it finally happens it makes no sense.
For those of you who like spoilers, read between the tags (and highlight).
[spoiler]
Ok, so basically Malfoy acts like a weirdo the whole movie in order to allow baddies into the castle to attack Gandalf (yeah yeah, Dumbledor). Harry, on the other hand, spends most of his time trying to get this awesome professor to tell him some amazing secret that Gandalf wants to know.
So, anyway, Harry gets the secret, and Malfoy succeeds in getting baddies into the castle. ....but...
After Gandalf makes a huuuuuuge deal about how amazing the info Harry got is, he basically takes Harry to some random place that he has been going to all the time to get some artifact. WTF, why did you need the secret if you've been going there all the time anyway? WTF Gandalf... Way to make some secret out to be mega-awesome shat when it is actually insignificant.
So, as for Malfoy, his mission is actually to try and kill Gandalf, so he confronts him, and then Snape steps in and kills Gandalf for him. Why did he need to work so hard to get the baddies in? They did nothing.
Then in the end everyone just walks away as if nothing happened. WTF.
[/spoiler]
Best Acting
Ron is finally out of his teenage bad acting funk and does very well during this movie. Instead of a mopey looser he is hilarious and wins. He pulls off being drugged, being fake drugged, being chased by a psychopath, and even pulls off mild annoyance with Granger being so "smitten with him"/"drunk all the time".
Ron's admirer does an awesome job too. She is the perfect obsessed freak. She spends literally two minutes drawing hearts and whatnot on a window that Ron is near and NEVER breaks her super-intense character once.
White haired fairy girl is awesome too. She may seem annoying at first, but her unbelievably high level whimsy is a breath of fresh air. My only gripe is that she got so little screen time during the Christmas party.
So, the best actor in the movie was some new professor. I forget his name. Whatever, his character was performed flawlessly. He even had one squinty eye. You know an actor is good when they do one squinty eye.
Worst Acting
Ugh, ok, so remember little Jenny? Ron's baby sister? Well, apparently Harry and Jenny have finally taken notice of each other.
So, yes, after chasing after Asian girls, Indian girls, Black girls, he's defaulted to the whitest girl possible. Which is fine, because in all the other movies Jenny is a good character and gets that flustered/nervous/open-eyed look when Harry is around and whatnot. Plus she's apparently mega-talented at everything, athletic, and academically gifted. I say apparently because you don't see her doing much, but she was the only one aside from Harry who could do the mega spell in movie 5, plus she appears to be Harry's co-captain on the Quiddish (SP? pffft) team, plus she's like 6 feet tall.
Unfortunately, Jenny broke. I don't know what happened. She was awful.
Maybe the camerawork was just bad, but I'm thinking she just sucked.
Like, I understand how she's supposed to act a little awkward around Harry, but... she was just... sporadic ...and subdued at the same time.
Like, for example, there's a scene where she just walks up to Harry when he's on the stairs. She is just staring at his face, and Harry is like "uuuuh...." and she just blurts out (quietly) "shoelaces", then bends down to tie his shoes. ....wtf was that?
Another scene he's just sitting there on the couch, and she walks up with a cookie, and she... like... gestures to the cookie, and Harry is like "uh...." and she quietly blurts out "don't you trust me". Like, so incredibly fast and robotic it took a while to piece back together what she was saying. By that time she had already fed the cookie to Harry.
I think what makes it so awkward is that she never talks, never has any dialogue at all, then she's supposed to have intimate scenes with Harry. So she says her 2 words (out of her 30 words total in the whole movie) and makes a quick move, then the scene ends. Then the audience says "uh.... wtf".
She looks like a baby too, a very very tall baby, she's like... 2 inches taller than Harry, but her face is so babyish all of her scenes with Harry and other guys just make you confused. Yeah, not her fault, but they could have at least pitted her with a younger looking guy than who she was with in the beginning of the movie.
Anyway, review ova!
If I had to watch any one of the 6 Harry Potter movies currently available, I'd definitely pick this one. I'm not sure how long this review will be, but here's the skinny:
- Best scenes of any Harry Potter movie.
- Weakest plot of any Harry Potter movie.
- Best acting of any Harry Potter movie. *
- Worst acting of any Harry Potter movie. *
* some people did an awesome job, some people lost the contest.
Best Scenes
Ok, so, why are there some of the best scenes? Simple, the theme of choice in the movie was "intoxication". People were getting drunk literally all the time.
I was under the impression that "Butter Beer" was like "Root Beer", a delicious non-alcoholic beverage. Wrang, it get Granger buzzing after a few sips.
The "big mission" in the movie was pulled off when Harry takes some potion that gets you good intuition and a good strong buzz, then goes down to Hagrid's place with a teacher to get them both completely drunk (to the point of the giant passing out).
The showstopper in the movie (an old professor) was seemingly permadrunk. He was awesome, and the greatest hero of them all.
Aside from that there's two random girls who are infatuated with Harry and Ron respectively. Ron's admirer is insane as in, worships the ground he walks on while Harry's is insane as in... might end up poisoning you insane. Hilarity ensues. Some random guy is obsessed with Granger as per usual, but, as per usual, he's uninteresting and definitely not entertaining.
Aside from getting people drunk, or under the influence of infatuation potions, there was some good stuff with Harry telling people they had just eaten "Dragon Balls" and other such goodness.
Weak Plot
Yes, the plot was weak. Unfortunate, I know.
Once again there is a "big secret" that Harry needs to uncover. Once again, when you look back, the secret turns out to be useless.
Basically the plot doesn't even start till the last third of the movie, and when it finally happens it makes no sense.
For those of you who like spoilers, read between the tags (and highlight).
[spoiler]
Ok, so basically Malfoy acts like a weirdo the whole movie in order to allow baddies into the castle to attack Gandalf (yeah yeah, Dumbledor). Harry, on the other hand, spends most of his time trying to get this awesome professor to tell him some amazing secret that Gandalf wants to know.
So, anyway, Harry gets the secret, and Malfoy succeeds in getting baddies into the castle. ....but...
After Gandalf makes a huuuuuuge deal about how amazing the info Harry got is, he basically takes Harry to some random place that he has been going to all the time to get some artifact. WTF, why did you need the secret if you've been going there all the time anyway? WTF Gandalf... Way to make some secret out to be mega-awesome shat when it is actually insignificant.
So, as for Malfoy, his mission is actually to try and kill Gandalf, so he confronts him, and then Snape steps in and kills Gandalf for him. Why did he need to work so hard to get the baddies in? They did nothing.
Then in the end everyone just walks away as if nothing happened. WTF.
[/spoiler]
Best Acting
Ron is finally out of his teenage bad acting funk and does very well during this movie. Instead of a mopey looser he is hilarious and wins. He pulls off being drugged, being fake drugged, being chased by a psychopath, and even pulls off mild annoyance with Granger being so "smitten with him"/"drunk all the time".
Ron's admirer does an awesome job too. She is the perfect obsessed freak. She spends literally two minutes drawing hearts and whatnot on a window that Ron is near and NEVER breaks her super-intense character once.
White haired fairy girl is awesome too. She may seem annoying at first, but her unbelievably high level whimsy is a breath of fresh air. My only gripe is that she got so little screen time during the Christmas party.
So, the best actor in the movie was some new professor. I forget his name. Whatever, his character was performed flawlessly. He even had one squinty eye. You know an actor is good when they do one squinty eye.
Worst Acting
Ugh, ok, so remember little Jenny? Ron's baby sister? Well, apparently Harry and Jenny have finally taken notice of each other.
So, yes, after chasing after Asian girls, Indian girls, Black girls, he's defaulted to the whitest girl possible. Which is fine, because in all the other movies Jenny is a good character and gets that flustered/nervous/open-eyed look when Harry is around and whatnot. Plus she's apparently mega-talented at everything, athletic, and academically gifted. I say apparently because you don't see her doing much, but she was the only one aside from Harry who could do the mega spell in movie 5, plus she appears to be Harry's co-captain on the Quiddish (SP? pffft) team, plus she's like 6 feet tall.
Unfortunately, Jenny broke. I don't know what happened. She was awful.
Maybe the camerawork was just bad, but I'm thinking she just sucked.
Like, I understand how she's supposed to act a little awkward around Harry, but... she was just... sporadic ...and subdued at the same time.
Like, for example, there's a scene where she just walks up to Harry when he's on the stairs. She is just staring at his face, and Harry is like "uuuuh...." and she just blurts out (quietly) "shoelaces", then bends down to tie his shoes. ....wtf was that?
Another scene he's just sitting there on the couch, and she walks up with a cookie, and she... like... gestures to the cookie, and Harry is like "uh...." and she quietly blurts out "don't you trust me". Like, so incredibly fast and robotic it took a while to piece back together what she was saying. By that time she had already fed the cookie to Harry.
I think what makes it so awkward is that she never talks, never has any dialogue at all, then she's supposed to have intimate scenes with Harry. So she says her 2 words (out of her 30 words total in the whole movie) and makes a quick move, then the scene ends. Then the audience says "uh.... wtf".
She looks like a baby too, a very very tall baby, she's like... 2 inches taller than Harry, but her face is so babyish all of her scenes with Harry and other guys just make you confused. Yeah, not her fault, but they could have at least pitted her with a younger looking guy than who she was with in the beginning of the movie.
Anyway, review ova!