POA still the best!

Rating: 8/10 (16 December 2005)

The movie: I would rate it as Good instead of Excellent. I would rate POA excellent! After Alfonso's direction, Mike's direction was back to Chris' structure. The movie was NOT boring...no, not at all... but the book has been chopped away! There is NO quidditch at all - that is played - just the players making an entry. There is no Madness of Mr Crouch, no WINKY! The other champions' games have been snatched away - and Fleur has been made to look quite silly!! She becomes a weeping, hysterical woman in the Maze. I wonder why they did that to her character... (This is all a hotchpotch of my thoughts so bear with me - after 10 hours of being in a theatre it sort of makes me run rampant!) Ah, so where was I?
Ah yes!! My favourite scenes: 1. The Unforgivable Curses in Mad-Eye Moody's classroom: It was terrible. I have never felt as sorry for an insect as I did when I was watching those scenes!! Watch out for this one!
2. THE RESURRECTION of Voldemort!!! MAN!!! The entire scene - was spectacular. The special effects were great - but I am not talking about them - R A L P H F I E N N E S ! ! ! He absolutely IS Lord Voldemort!!! The scene of Flesh, Blood and Bone is way out there in the creep out factor - but man! the resurrection and Ralph and then the PRIORI INCANTATEM scene - BLOODY BRILLIANT!
It is a fabulous climactic point in the movie.
Many scenes are worth noticing - Hermione stands out in the Yule Ball, which is to be expected. And I particularly liked Padma Patil. ;-) The tasks were done well, they should have focused a bit more on some of the other champions instead of just Harry - but I understand about the time factor.
I don't understand why Krum had to go all white-eyed after being struck by the Imperius...? I guess it was to make him look sinister and - er, Imperio'ed?
Ginny had a few lines to say - the one that left an impact was "It's ghastly!"
The ferret bouncing scene was well done as well. Hehehe. Though why the ferret had to travel down someone else's pants I fail to understand. Hmmmmmmmm.
By and large, I think the movie was worth seeing - definitely! But it lacked the utter finesse and polish of Prisoner of Azkaban.