Entertaintment - Definitely, Fun -No Way, Children Friendly - I Don't think so!!

Rating: 6/10 (19 July 2007)

There was a time when movies that were supposedly targeted at children were simple and fun.
Bad guys were bad and they lost, good guys were good and they won, good guys who turned bad suffered and bad guys who turned good were rewarded.
The music was fun and cheerful and blood shed was unheard of,SCARY ELEMENTS WERE KEPT AT A MINIMUM.
Movies were fun to watch, with loads of kiddy jokes, and special effects aimed at children.
Underaged kissing was at a minimum old people kissed but it was short, and after loads of cute scenes the maximum a child got was a peck on the cheeks or a brush on the lips which sent guffaws among the audience and left the boy blushing.
Times have changed now.
The good guys have dark streaks and its not clear as to who's good and who's bad, BAD GUYS WIN AND GOOD GUYS LOSE.
Music is eerie and rarely fun, children are shown bleeding under heinous torture, SCENES BORDERING ON HORROR ARE SHOWN.
Fun is unheard of, no QUIDITCH MATCHES, OR MAGICAL FUN CREATURES HERE (even a giant was shown in a unhumorous fashion),don't remember more than one scene that was specifically aimed at children, or would entertain them (even the OWL disruption scene was more importantly a rebellion against the system).
Kisses between two 15 year olds is long, passionate, and definitely not fun, even the discussion afterwords in not cute, the boy is not blushing, the girl is crying during the kiss, I've seen first kisses in adult movies that are less intense.
I CAN GO ON AND ON AND ON ABOUT LOTS OF THINGS THAT MAKE THIS MOVIE ANYTHING BUT FUN OR A CHILDREN MOVIE.
BUT THE FACT IS HARRY POTTER CEASED TO BE A CHILDREN BOOK FROM THE 5TH BOOK.
And its high time people realised this, the moment you start seeing this as teen/adult entertainment you will have completely different perspective of this movie/the books.
I FOR ONE WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO WATCH THIS MOVIE WITH THIS IN MIND AND THERE IS NO DOUBT THIS MOVIE WAS ENTERTAINING.
Special effects were superb, but the ministry of magic could have been more magical, TECHINCALLY THIS FILM WAS SUPERB WITH Brilliant CAMERA WORK AND SUCCEEDED IN MAINTAINING A DARK ATMOSPHERE THROUGHOUT (yes dark).
Acting was again superb hats of to Imelda Staunton who did a superb job as Dolores, I've never felt such loathing (and some fear), for any screen character in a long time.
The few jokes that were there and mainly involving Filch were fun.
The action scenes fell short and really a full scale fight between the Order and the Death Eaters that too at the ministry of magic had much more potential.
The entry scene between Dumbledore and Voldermort was fantastic and filled me with hope in this otherwise dark movie.
The entertainment value of this movie is unquestionable, it even met the somewhat lower expectations i had from it.
HOWEVER ITS STATUS AS A FUN FILM AND ESPECIALLY A Children's FILM IS SERIOUSLY IN DOUBT.
But still there are people who think Lord of the rings was meant for children (AS I SAY THIS, EXCEPT THE KISSING MOST Indian CHILDREN ARE REGULARLY EXPOSED TO Violence AND OTHER DARK ELEMENTS IN MOVIES HERE AS WELL AS OUR EPICS SO WE Don't REALLY CARE, the fun part is more important for us, we go in the movie expecting fun and don't really get any).
Watch with correct expectations and you wont be disappointed (infact be entertained).
-s NO FUN, lots of plot holes, feels kind-off rushed, lots of things/characters/scenes/sub-plots feel like they didn't get the attention they deserved.
+/-s content vs length (you choose), only the most important parts were shown,misleading as a children's film.
+s superb acting, superb technically, quite good as part in an ongoing epic, definitely entertaining with lots of hate, scary, hopeful, and visually spectacular moments.
total 6/10 (i expected good and got it, i expected fun and received almost none, it however exceeded expectations in other departments, it extracted emotions from me that were hardly expected in a so called children's film, ONCE AGAIN ITS ALL ABOUT THE HYPE AND ONCE AGAIN YOU GIVE IN BECAUSE At least THE MOVIE Isn't BAD, HOW I PRAY FOR A HYPE FILM THAT ACTUALLY JUSTIFIES IT (die hard is very close and I'm hoping so will transformers).