Juvenile emotional spasms

Rating: 3/10 (23 July 2007)

God, I just don't get how so many people are so into this series. All this hype about, ooh, the dreaded Voldemort. You'd think that the guy would be truly nightmarish, but, after we've been forced to stomach two hours or so of superstar Harry's emotional self-indulgence, Voldemort (who, by the way, MUST NOT BE NAMED, in case you hadn't heard enough times), finally shows up (sans nose, how scary!) and runs with tail tucked when enough Hogwart bigwigs show up. I guess he just couldn't hack it when Harry decided not to embrace the dark side, er, I mean, resisted Sauron's ring of power, er, I mean, didn't want to be his buddy.
Ugh, what ever happened to the concept of believable characters and motivations?
The retarded giant was... disturbing. The centaurs were neat. The semi-invisible ugly horse things were disturbing. The romance was totally high school, but I guess that's Harry for you. Not much to see here, folks... Move along....