the Fretless Bass reviews: Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows

I love Harry Potter. Now that that's out of the way, I need to criticize this movie through teary eyes, because I was let down. First and foremost, it's just a ploy to get us to spend more money. The movie took a very small amount of material, and turned it into a full length movie; you could have walked out of the theater at any time, walked back in ten minuets later, and figured out exactly what you missed. That's bad. Movies need to be deep and involving, and you need to have to focus to follow them, like Inception. HP7 was not one of those movies. Second, there was a whole lot of pointless crap in it. At one point, Hermione was feeling sad, so the music on the radio became background music, and she and Harry started to dance around to it. I'm sure that was just a trick so the writers wouldn't have to think of an actual plot event to have happen. Thirdly, there was the part where Hermione read about the story of the Deathly Hallows, and it went into an animation of the story that looked like something out of an artsy film festival. It sucked! It was another time waster! Lastly on the hate list, the director obviously went out of his way to make the whole thing an analogy to 1930's Germany. The "snatchers" were nazi's (they even had red armbands), the "Mudbloods" were Jews (who were put on trial for their heredity), and Voldemort was Hitler. It all seemed really unnecessary, like the movie makers thought we needed to connect Voldemort to Hitler to understand how evil he is; we don't, everyone in America has read the books, we know Voldemort is evil, we don't need to be reminded of the Holocaust to connect the dots.

Lucky for all of us, there were some things I did like about this movie. The movie focused on two characters more than it ever had, Hermione, and Voldemort. I can't tell you about Hermione without a spoiler, so I'll only tell you that Voldemort has more lines in this one than he did in all six other movies combined. The last thing I liked about it was how you really got the feeling that the main characters were alone, and there was no one in the world they could trust. That's a really hard feeling to get from a movie, and HP7 did it.

Now, after all the negatives I've given in this review, I want to make one thing clear, the movie was good and entertaining. Come on, it was Harry Potter! But this time it failed to enchant me quite like the others did.