The Movie put a Sick Charm on me

Rating: Null/10 (24 July 2011)

No matter how hard they worked on this movie, it was going to make a billion dollars anyways, and frankly they did not really seem to work that hard. Despite the rave reviews from every kid who still thinks their letter from Hogwarts was lost in the mail (even though owls deliver it) I'd like to make a claim on the contrary, it sucked.
I realize that there was nothing they could do about the acting, it wasn't like they could find a new lot of kids to play Harry (despite how good Daniel Radcliffe is in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying), Ron, Hermione and the rest of the magical crew, but frankly they're not great and there is more than one reason that Emma Watson decided to make the change from acting to modeling, and is getting a real American education. But the directing and production staff new these short coming coming in and would logically try and work around them by focusing more on the action and the dramatic silence of the emotion situations the seventh book was chock-full of. This didn't really happen either This was the first Harry Potter movie shot in 3D, and they probably should have done another in 3D to work out the kinks first. Every major action scene in the movie, which was a lot because the whole thing was essentially one big battle, was changed from having over the top CGI effects and stunts, to having the scene inexplicably go into slow motion and have something flying at the screen. I'll admit, it probably looked awesome in 3D, but in regular definition it just looked goofy, taking away from the dramatic effect of the situation.
As for the non action scene dramatic situation, they were nothing more than a lightning round of awkward situations and over the top one liners. Whether it was strict adhesion to the book, trying to get in every 'important' scene and subplot, which they kind of gave up on in the first movie, or that they were really trying to play on the awkward boy-girl coming of age angle that most of the viewers are probably going through themselves, I don't know. What I do know is that Ron and Hermione spent more time making out than grieving over their (very) recently killed friends and family, and that every few minutes there was a scene were some random wizard dude (Ron, Harry, Nevil) sat next to some random wizard girl (Luna, Hermione, Ginny) and didn't say anything, making me almost wonder if they just happen to be sitting there not talking and suddenly realize the camera was still rolling.
All in all I revert back to my original analysis: it sucked. Many of my friend called seeing this movie the end of their childhood, and frankly it was the end of mine. A loss of innocence to even consider wanting to go see some kid-friendly, over-hyped, poorly done, Warner Brothers poor excuse for a movie ever again.