'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' review

The 6th installment of the Harry Potter series, in which Harry learns about Lord Voldemort's dark past.

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Entertainment

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• sorcery
• book
• witchcraft
• movie review
• Chicago Tribune
• Michael Phillips

[ADumB42]

This film isn't about copying it out word for word, its about improving it from the book and highlighting the best bits, and the film did exactly the opposite. They highlighted the romantic bits and comedy parts, but lets be honest, we don't watch Harry Potter to get drunk, get horny and have a laugh. I was really excited about the fight scene at the end, and I was waiting for it all the way through the film for it. Then all that happened was Hagrid's hut got burnt to the ground... Whathehell?

[Talk2Jacqui]

3 and a half stars??

Harry Potter is a classic...people 20 years from now will watch this movie and your giving it 3 and a half??

Well that's outrages !!

[Pwells1]

@Talk2Jacqui 3 1/2 out of 4, not out of 5.

[indysoul86]

I love how all the reviews for HBP had something bad to say about Transformers 2!! (which came out 2 weeks before) Michael Phillips is awesome.

[legoindyshortround]

@Talk2Jacqui the first hp movies were classic....the rest went downhill from there

[Awfullybigadventure0]

@UnknownXV I know what you mean, but they actually try to make it look like they're apparating.... Just don't get why the black smoke xD

[Quagile]

I did not like this movie, it was literally too dark, very, very, boring, and I hate the characters to a certain extent. I personally would give this movie 2 stars. What I liked is the cinematography, so while everything is so dark, what you do see is very good. The action is at least somewhat entertaining, and the acting isn't all that bad. Still, this was a huge disappointment to me, I know I will be hated for this, but that is to be expected.

[UnknownXV]

The one thing I dislike the most about this movie, is that the death eaters can fly in wisps.

Makes Voldemort being able to fly in the 7th book rather meaningless.

[rbrtchng]

I'm sorry, I thought we were talking about our opinions on THE MOVIE, not the books. Sure you can say that the books did a better job at explaining everything and the movie failed that, but THE MOVIE failed to explain it; therefore, THE MOVIE was not good for me.

[FluXez00]

@jokernotfunny Draco is a complete fuck up, in the end him and his family don't know where to go...so basically the whole malfoy family is fucked. Plus, Harry Potter is the golden character, hence the name "HARRY POTTER and The Half Blood Prince." not "Draco Malfoy and The Half Blood Prince.