Good... not great.

Rating: Null/10 (8 June 2004)

Spoilers. OK you were all warned.
lets start with the good.
1. the kids were good. Ron (Rupert Grint) Got, and deserved, the most laughs of the cast. They've all grown into their parts so well. it was fun watching them.
2. Its nice in my opinion that the new dumbledore is doing the part his way and not trying to "replace" the late beloved dumbledore.
3. I'm pleasantly surprised by Thewis and Oldman. They were a lot better in the roles than I gave them credit for. Remus Lupin is my favorite character, so when I saw Thewis, I was very worried, but he did a great job, and I think his scenes with Harry were very touching.
the not so good now.
1. like a lot of other people, I thought the character Development sucked. Two new great characters and they had almost no part! what the heck?
2. Weak script. they took so much out of the script, that some of the things that happened/were said didn't make any sense. It was so thrown together.
3. they spent so much time to get the OOO's and AHHH's from the inflating of aunt marge and buckbeak, that they didn't seem to spend enough time with the characters.
4. What happened to Malfoy, Hagrid, McGonagal and Snape? I KNOW they had a better part in the book!
5. Sure things had to get cut to fit the movie... but they seemed to cut the wrong things.
6. There are some funny moments between Snape/Lupin and Hermione/Ron that would have added to character development, but weren't added in the movie.
I don't know. I like the movie, and I'll see it again I'm sure... but it isn't my favorite of the three movies... and that's disappointing because book three was my favorite.