"Harry Potter And The Deathly Hollows Part 2" Reviewed (More Or Less)

As Harry Potter got older, he got more long winded and less magician and finally here we are at Deathly Hollows 2, the last of the movie series based upon JK Rowlings self satisfied re-telling of the Christ story.

Taken together -sorta Use Your Illusions 1 and 2, first Harry, Hermione and Ron chase their tails for a coupla hours and then they get it together and go after Valdermot. Taken separately, DH1 is a mess with a killer ending and DH2 is a killer with a messy ending.

Lots of battles and lots of important deaths,  ,mostly occurring off screen, and with only the great Snape doing justice to the character, builds to the final battle (heard that one before, right?) between good and evil. Voldermort dies.

19 years later and Potter's own son (see pick above) is going to Hogwarts for the first time. Unlike the book, this is a little clumsy (we don't know Neville Longbottomis now Headmaster, for instance)

And as for much, there is only the soundtrack, but now is as good time to congratulate John Williams for his childlike and scary Potter motif: it sounds like the wind rustling in a your sheets from an open wind, it seems to fly and it takes you on a magical journey and has done so for movie after movie.

Movie: Grade: A-

Music: B+

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