Missing the Magic

Rating: 1/10 (28 November 2005)

I looked forward to this installment of the Potter series with anticipation and hope that the magic in Rowling's story would be present. The film fails in this because it the story is told up front and close. All depth to the story is fuzzy and blotted out. Missing are countless characters in the storythat effect Harry Potters life. The Ghosts, Dobby, The Dursley's, Mrs. Weasley, and as always Peeves the Poltergeist. (In my opinion, if the dragon scene had been presented as Rowling's wrote it, there would have been time to add some of the MIA's.) Key elements of the story are missing, other elements are incomplete, and the director and the writer have taken great liberties that are uncalled for. People come to see Rowling's story visually expressed; anything else is a waste.