Why Yates Why!!!!!

Rating: 2/10 (26 July 2012)

I am a large fan of the harry potter books and have enjoyed watching at least the early Harry Potter movies. I must say however this is a horribly disappointing movie seemingly made by a production team who have no intuition at all.
When adapting a book into a movie there are two things which distinguish the amazing movie from the disappointing ones: 1- The little things, the small details which the fans really want to see portrayed, even in the background.
2- The secondary characters are extremely important to the viewers.
My main issue with this movie is that it lacks both of these in a massive way, leaving out the little thins and focusing way too much on harry.
It is a terrible adaptation, removing the magic from the whole movie, making it a cheesy battle movie which MAKES NO SENSE ACCORDING THE THE WORLD WHICH WE KNOW AS POTTER!! Issues of stupidity in the movie- - Harry appirates to diagon alley, not under the invisibility cloak then waits around for a chat in the lane-way. Seriously this is just a ridiculous error when everyone is looking for him.

WHY IS THE BRIDGE BLOWN UP OMG!!! In all seriousness this is so stupid. I was getting used to the fact that Yates decided the death-eaters can all now fly, so why blow up a bridge. It is just stupid!!! They can fly over and THEY HAVE MAGIC WANDS or go across another bridge.

All of the snatchers! They don't even hit Neville as he runs, and he somehow manages to hit it behind him as he runs, (wat?) They instead of using their magic abilities they all just fall into the abyss! Another stupid error - Why did harry break the elder wand? No further comment - Why would the people hiding out in the room of requirement be happy enough to just go down to the great hall when Snape summons them.

Issues of disappointment in the movie- -NO FRED DEATH, NO TONKS DEATH, NO LUPIN DEATH.
-Mrs Weasley vs. Bellatrix. The most fearful thing about Bellatrix is her taunting words yet in this pivotal scene we don't see any build up of taunting about Ginny and Fred - Why was Voldemort not destroyed in the hall in front of everyone. It was important that Voldemorts rage at Harry should have been shown as harry believes he will win the fight. We needed to see Mcgonagall, Kingsley and Slughorn fighting Voldemort to show his strength and show harry isn't the only one standing up to Voldemort.
Issues of annoyance in the movie- -SO MUCH OF HARRY AND VOLDEMORT JUST RUNNING AROUND, pointless and boring - Why is there no footage of Mcgonagall, Lupin, Fred, George, Dean, Seamus, Ginny fighting in the actually battle. Seriously they left all the good characters we wanted to see out of the battle.

Mrs Weasley why do you know how to make a massive shield. WHY NOT ARTHUR WHO ACTUALLY WORKS AT THE MINISTRY. Another silly idea from David Yates.

-Why do Bellatrix and Voldemort burst into little pieces WHY WHY WHY -We really wanted to see the Ravenclaw common room and Amycus Carrow abusing Mcgonagall. That would've been a great scene to see, Harry defending Mcgonagall with the Cruciatus curse. Yates has completely rejected the enormous power of words in conveyed hatred, menace and friendship.
The two massive issues Overall the most disappointing thing is the lack of secondary character involvement in the battle of Hogwarts. Characters which we needed to see actually fighting in the battle included Prof. Sprout, HAGRID Slughorn, All of the Weasleys, Lupin and Tonks. Some characters which it would've been nice to see is the fat lady, sir Cadogan, Nearly Headless Nick, Peeves,fang, Buckbeak, Grawp and the professors portraits.
Essentially Yates had removed the magic from this movie. Wizards not using any named spells and simply shooting light from their wand as if it doesn't even mean anything. The magical creatures all left out with the exception of pointless giants without Grawp even there to attack them.
Overall I give this 2/10 simply because I love the series and ultimately if i continued to speak on this movies failures i would downgrade it to 1/10. So disappointing for such a great story to be abused in this way