Review: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Posted by Matt at 14:08 on 09 Jul 2011 Reviews A-Z

And so it all ends. Goodbye, Gryffindor. So long, Slytherin. Adios ‘Ogwarts. Whatever your feelings about ‘The Boy Who Lived’ and his mostly family friendly foray into a world of wizardry, there’s no denying that this final film marks the end of an inspired (and lucrative) era in British filmmaking. So thank god that it so magnificently lives up to the occasion.

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Posted by Ed at 23:52 on 10/08/11

Thoroughly enjoyed the film but feel compelled to rant impotently on the internet about the 3D, which was appallingly misjudged.

This is a dark film. Yes in tone, but I mean literally: there's not a lot of colour or brightness in it. Put on a pair of 3D bins which are, - unaccountably - tinted, and it becomes even darker, meaning you miss a lot of detail in a picture that is otherwise beautifully photographed. If I were whoever the director of photography is (I won't insult us all by pretending I know), I'd be fucking livid.

Add to that the fact that it wasn't shot in 3D so the effect was simply retrofitted (a process that seems to me to involve laying two identical prints on top of one another, moving one of them a little bit to the right and Pritt-Sticking them together), and you end up with a product containing only about two decent 3D effects, which you suspect were largely by accident.

We saw the trailer for The Three Musketeers beforehand, which makes a virtue out of having being shot in 3D, and looks to make really good use of it. It'll obviously be a huge heap of shit, but at least they had the good sense to decide in advance they'd be doing it, rather than hamfistedly bolt it on afterwards as a callous ploy to wrench yet more cash out of the hands of starving children.

I took it too far with the starving children thing, didn't I? Still.

Posted by Kirsty at 12:55 on 21/07/11

I thought it was great; an excellent conclusion.

Daniel's best acting (I know, I know), Ralph's best scenery chewing.
There was crying and laughing, and cheering and (oddly) clapping. And there was Neville.

It's not exactly faithful to the book, but it all ends essentially the same way.

I wouldn't have minded an extra half an hour to give certain things *like poor Fred** the due attention which, after 12 years of caring about their literary origins, they deserved and fans would have appreciated.

In short, it was a great send off. And wasn't Draco's beard ridikulus?

*spoiler tag used incase of non-book readers.