simply not a good movie

Rating: 5/10 (25 July 2009)

This movie is better than the first three, but then again that isn't saying much (the 4th wasn't as bad). The first three often threw out story, good dialog and character development and put in a great heap of "Wow that bus just shrunk and fit between the other two buses!" or "That skull has a Jamaican accent, isn't he just the wackiest thing you've ever seen?" which I found very annoying and lazy. It was like the director thought he could just get by on the "isn't that wacky" mood. Well, now we have a different director. This must change right? In some ways that thought would be correct, as this movie has a much darker mood than the rest. However the director still seems to go back to that annoying habit of instead of showing us a character is "wacky" through good writing, he zooms in on a characters face way too far. Another thing about the characters which annoyed me was that nearly all, except for the 3 main characters and a select few of the secondary characters, were WAY overplayed by the actors. For example: the Dursley's. If you have seen the previous movies, you know what i am talking about. What i will give to this is that it is a step in the right direction. As I said earlier, it is a lot darker than the previous films. Hopefully we can have at some point a Harry Potter that is serious and relies on good dialog and character development instead of the "Isn't the magical world just wacky?" thing that is going on now