Excellent

Rating: Null/10 (21 July 2011)

I saw some of the first movies, then nothing until now. I thought the genre wasn't my cup of tea. I took my husband, b/c he loves Harry et al. Little did I know that I would be caught up in this adventure, even if it didn't have song or dance. With all the hoopla about the Harry series, I have learned more from news items and promos than from these movies, since as I said I have seen few.
I love the magical train. It is so cute. The Hogwarts Express is ingenious. Skipping to the end (spoiler), the train was as beautiful as originally, and somehow reminded me of Thomas the Tank Engine, although there was a different color scheme, of course. That the main stars' future children had boarded this train on the way to Hogwarts was, I felt, a fitting connection to things to come. There won't be any more of these movies, and more's the pity. I would liked to have seen the children going to Hogwarts, getting into all sorts of adventures, like their parents had done, and playing Quidditch (sp?). I did enjoy seeing the grown-up characters, e.g. Harry and the others with older-adult type hairstyles and clothing.
Also getting to the end (another spoiler), I was thrilled to see that Hogwarts had been rebuilt to its majestic self during those 19 years into the future. During this movie, Hogwarts had been blown to smithereens, over and over again, by "the bad guys" -- Lord Voldemort (?) and his band of dopey so-called killahs (my description, lol). As few times as I have seen the Harry movies, I always thought that Hogwarts was huge, stately and beautiful before its attempted Armageddon.
Baby Harry was cute. When he had tears in his eyes, it was so sad. Hagrid was excellent, as usual.
I have seen Jason Isaacs as Captain Hook in "Peter Pan 2003", and Kelly MacDonald played Peter Pan in "Return to Neverland". In this movie, Kelly as the feminine ghost looked so familiar, and so I did some research.
Well, that's about it, kiddoes. See my other reviews.
I predict a great future for Daniel, Emma and Rupert.