Movie 54: Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince

The secret is out so the Death Eaters are now attacking blatantly, making things a lot more dangerous in the world. Security at Hogwarts is therefore tightened and everyone is on guard. Harry finds a potions book that was previously owned by someone called The Half Blood Prince. Everyone’s hormones are raging so there’s a whole bunch of hormone related stuff. And there’s a plot to kill Dumbledore.

Ah raging hormones. Didn’t come across as quite as annoying as in the book though. Yes this is the second last Potter book, third last film, and it’s a bit of a dip from the last few. With good reason though.

You see there’s not a huge amount of plot moving forward. This is more of a set up. Some extrapolation, some character building and relationship nonsense. We are dealing with 16 year olds for the most part after all.

It’s all handled relatively well. You’d hardly expect some kind of amazing love story from this universe and the original authors, all be it creative, pen. But it’s not the worst teenage love story I’ve ever seen either. Ron and Hermione’s getting together has been handled rather well, slowly building before it finally bloody happens. There’s been hints coming up and they aren’t suddenly going out at the start of the film.

Same with Harry and Ginny. Oh, there may be spoilers here but if your spoiled you live under…well you know the deal. Patrick from Spongebob is the only one with an excuse. You don’t see to much of Harry and Ginny’s relationship but you know its happened and it makes sense.

There’s no point saying anything about the acting here as its pretty much spot on as usual. Bit of cheesiness from the kids, but the adults are all damned fine cause they’re British and that.

This is a big spoiler if you haven’t read/seen this. The ending has a bit of a different tone to it when you know the deal with the whole series. It’s a little bit heart breaking, but not for the reason that it would have been originally. I feel really bloody sorry for Snape. Rickman plays the scene perfectly. Poor bastard.

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