Harry Potter 7 Review

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 1 Review

Rating system (out of five):

Stars = measures the film's cinematic quality.

Hearts = measures the film's enjoyability.

Bowls of Ice cream = measures the numbers of bowls of ice cream it would cost to get me to watch the film again

I was eleven when I first read the first Harry Potter book, I devoured it, and reveled in Harry (a fellow eleven year old) and my shared experiences and lamented the year of my life that was passing without receiving a Hogwarts letter. So it began that Harry and I would grow up together, many of the books coming out with Harry and I at the same age. I have a summer birthday and desire for adventure too, so we understood each other. I also had a tremendous crush on Ron, a trait I shared more with Hermione then Harry. Oh Ron, such a lovable goober.

I was thirteen when the first Harry Potter movie came out, and though the characters were back to eleven, the actors playing them were all the same age as me, and so another group of people I would grow up with emerged.

I sat with my cousin in the car, in the line, in the theater, waiting and waiting and then so delighted. My magical world that I had become a part of by myself reading was now up on the big screen to be shared by everyone. I yearned to have a cup of coffee in DIagon Alley, to take a quick flight on a broomstick and to have a beautiful snowy owl deliver my mail. I was dazzled by the first movie. All six of the movies prior to the newly release Deathly Hollows Part 1 are classic favorites of mine. I watch them again and again, through the second Dumbledore's terrible acting and the overlooked cherished chapters that were not explored on film, I loved whatever they gave me in these movies because I love these books.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 1 was incredible. I am now speaking with the full weight of my nerdom and film studentry combined, it was fabulous. Separating the seventh book into two movies gave the film a wonderful pace that accelerated properly with action sequences, without ever feeling rushed to the end. It was tender, lonely, vulnerable, sweet, sentimental, magical, exciting, suspenseful. I could go on and on. I'm sure not having to work too much with that terrible "Dumbledore" impostor made things easier on everyone as well... man I don't like that guy.

I saw it the night of its release and have every intention of returning to the theater for subsequent viewings.

My rating:

5 Stars

5 Hearts

0 Bowls of Ice cream