![]() ![]() And as the books get longer towards the end of the saga, attempts to cram in all those disjointed episodes into a conventional feature-length film look curiouser and curiouser. ![]() Every term at Hogwarts is Groundhog term. But the reserve of goodwill is running low the spell is wearing off, and it is tricky, to say the least, to remember how the previous movie is supposed to have ended and how this new one is supposed to advance some overarching series plotline. It's like a theme-park ride - perhaps that's what each film is now.īack in 2001, with Philosopher's Stone, the series started with a colossal rush of excitement and attending that very first screening amid legions of ecstatic children was thrilling and even moving. Probably the only really good moment in this film is a whooshing camera-move at the very beginning that sweeps us, airborne, through London's West End, past the Millennium Bridge miraculously through into Diagon Alley. Once, I believed that the films could theoretically convert newcomers to fanhood, but they are actually for signed-up fans only: competently managed big-screen renderings of a lucrative brand.Īs drama, they are becoming more and more inert, crammed with tiny events and minor characters that are spurious, pointless and, frankly, dull. But I feel an inexorable disenchantment with this franchise settling in, a sense of familiarity and stamina-loss amounting to a crisis of Potterist faith. ![]() This latest Potter has some spectacular imagery, and director David Yates is a safe pair of hands there are some nice moments and the tragic ending lands with a crash of timpani. ![]() But who knows? Maybe that second half will be split, and then the second half of that will separate, and like characters in a lost paradox by the pre-Socratic thinker Zeno, cinemagoers will never actually reach the end of the Potter films. The seventh and final volume, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is reportedly going to be divided into two films. Half-Blood Prince is the penultimate book, but antepenultimate movie. Darker, more hormonal, more teenage-angsty and sadly more boring, the Potter franchise is back. ![]()
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