Fantastici!

Rating: 10/10 (17 July 2011)

*Spoilleramhorra!* Well. Done. Potter. The audience was completely rapt. When the WB logo came on and the music swelled, I felt like my kid was graduating High School Valedictorian/Captain of the Football Team! Pooh-Pooh on the nasty Dursleys and the greedy banker Goblins (perfect political and economic timing on those fronts). Hermione got her hero moment and her man. Ron's Mom got to kick ass and the theater raised the roof on her invective to Bellatrix! Dumbledore was heavenly. And Snape, Severus Snape, undoubtedly one of cinemas all-time character roller-coaster rides. Is he? Isn't he. He did? He didn't! I really felt for this guy, and that he is Lily's soul-mate is beyond touching. It would have been nice to have had sentimental wraps for more characters like Hagrid, Buckbeak, even Draco, but HP7II is not about being sappy. I felt completely engaged, fulfilled, and even a bit exhausted after this excellent film. This experience has deep lessons to offer, and I'm on my way to check it out again now. Undoubtedly I will see this movie more in it's first-run theater showing, than any other film. Lifetime achievement Oscars for the whole lot, I say! Mischief Managed!