HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (2009)

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"Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. This Potter film comes in second place."

This portion of the review may offend to those who may like the film and/or read the book and liked the book.

hmm to narrow it down... this film is basically shit. i honestly don't know why these punk ass people in the business calling themselves directors, screenwriters and flappity flip. You can actually look back at certain scenes when hermoine looks like her pussy is going to explode and create miniturized cum bubbles...ahah ha ha ha...and yet nothing happens. its just an excuse for a good movie. and im sorry to those i may offend, but lets all be a little more "agile" you might say? or mature...oh yes..thats the one. So i found out recently Dumbledore is a flaming homosexual? so theres probably multiple copies; bloopers of some background shots or harry doing who knows what with Dumbledore. And i must say at that scene near the beginning of the film when snape takes some sort of "oath" with Dracos Mommy, wow..absolutely cute. you actually wonder why this movie went from PG 13 as in Numbers 4 and 5 of the Harry Potter series, and half blood was given a PG? Parental guidance to watch a REALLY pussy ass kiss, a couple of tears from our lovely Ms. Granger, and Snape finally coming out of the closet for Voldemort.

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Well, to those who have read the upper portion of this review, I give that to the haters of the film. lol

Anyway, lets get to business.

"Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" is the sixth installment in the Potter series of books and the adaptation to the big screens. Directed by David Yates, who also directed the fifth film, "Order of the Phoenix", this Harry Potter really hit the spot this time around.

Lets start with the story. Matching up the book exactly or somewhat to an extent can be tricky. I think this one really matched up with the book the best, out of any Potter film made yet. It was spot on, had most of the characters done well and portayed perfectly, and the theme of the film mostly matched with the book.

Most who have seen the film so far have complained that for such a short book in the series, was made into one of the longest film, at about 153 minutes, this one comes third in length, behind "Goblet of Fire", and the longest, "Chamber of Secrets". The rest have said that this movie matched to the book the best, and I agree.

But, as some have seen quite clear, the film revolved around the main characters' love interests, rather then the main focus on the "Half Blood Prince". To its title being "Half Blood Prince" I saw barely any connections to the story top the title, and this is the first time for a Potter film.

The acting is the best of any Potter film in this one. Daniel Radcliffe does his 'magic' again as he portrays the "Chosen One" Harry Potter, along with the comic-relief Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and flailing lover and emotional, jealous, lusty best friend Hermione Granger (Emma Watson). Jim Broadbent really nailed, I mean Really nailed the portrayal of Horace Slughorn, and I think the best portrayal of any Potter film, as he is now my favorite character in the series. Alan Rickman did a wonderful job in the role of Severus Snape, giving him much more granted screen time and a much larger role, along with Tom Felton's Draco Malfoy, who in some way I thought seemed like the main character in this film, which is weird, because it really did feel like he was, instead of Potter or Dumbledore or Voldemort.

There is some disappointment I have realized, even after reading the book, that Ralph Fiennes' Voldemort was not in this film, and he was truely missed, even though Voldemort himself was not in the book, but Tom Riddle was. Tom Riddle too had an excellent role in this film, showing us three flashbacks he took part of in unraveling his vulnerability to Harry and Dumbledore. Now, the main plot of the sixth book was in Harry and Dumbledore finding Voldemort's vulnerability, but in the film, it did not at all revolve around the plot of the book, or it barely did. It, like I said before, revolved more around the teenage wizard and witches' love lives. (Ron and Lavender Brown's cute but short relationship, and Hermione's jealousy of it and Harry and Ginny's little smooch scene in the Room of Requirement) Lets put it this way, the stories were flip flopped from book to movie.

Now, the climatic ending of Dumbledore's death was NOT climatic at all. Some have said "anti-climatic" or "boring", yes its true, oh so true. It was not touching at all. I really think they should have re-done that scene, of any Potter film, that scene needs to be re-done and re-thought about. No emotion there at all, maybe a little, but mostly zippo.

Quidditch! yes! finally... some quidditch in the new Potter film, none at all in 4 or 5 or 3.. kind of. In Goblet of Fire you just the very beginning of the Quidditch World Cup, no action or play. Order of the Phoenix: Zero quidditch. Dumb. Prisoner of Azkaban: A little bit. More of a Harry and Dementor chase scene, and 1 and 2 had plenty of introductory quidditch which was good. Half Blood Prince's quidditch was awesome. We finally get to see some real player action and battle between teams, Gryffindor kills Slytherin! Way to go Ron! But no Harry chasing snitchy... sad. But good quidditch for this Potter film, the best in my opinion.

Sectumsempra! to this film, not the best, as Prisoner of Azkaban in my opinion still ranks as number 1 in the Potter series. This film was just long, recessed, progressive and romantic. Exactly like the book, yes, some missing scenes or "flashbacks", but over all, a great Potter film.

(This was done by Velvet)