Harry Potter Movie Review

AP Language and Composition Summer Assignments

Everything’s An Argument page 391 # 2; Movie Review

Due 16 August 2010

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Movie Review

A compelling and exciting motion picture, Harry Potter once again captures the viewer’s mind as the sixth thrilling tale unfolds into a phenomenon. Harry is now into his sixth year at Hogwarts, and there he discovers an old Potions book that has been loaned to him to have a mysterious message: “This book is the property of the Half-Blood Prince”. He tries to figure out who the Half-Blood Prince is, and in the mean time, hundreds of muggles are being killed by the infamous Death Eaters. Love is in the air, as Ron Weasley and Lavender Brown can’t keep their hands off one another, and heartbreak follows as Hermione Granger cannot stand to see them together. She fancies Ron, and later we find that Harry feels the same for Ginny, Ron’s sister.

Although many find Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to be an excellent movie, unfortunately the same cannot be said for the hard-core Harry Potter fans. It has been understood that the scrip-writer for all of the movies by far has been the same person, and the translation from the book to a movie for the first film was incredible, but it has also been a steady progression downhill ever since.

The travesty in the Order of the Phoenix was ghastly enough, but it was astounding to see the Half-Blood Prince attain fresh levels in completely departing from the book, as well as changing, and even accumulating entirely new additional footage of no importance and for no evident reason. Material was also taken from the seventh and final book, the Deathly Hallows, like the kidnapping of Ollivander the wand-maker and the destruction of the Burrow.

The movie completely turned over the plot by making it very apparent that Draco Malfoy’s mission is to kill Dumbledore, while in the book, Harry has no idea what Malfoy is up to or what object he was...