Handwringing about Radcliffe

[Amy Z]

I've been staying away from this list 'til the movie comes out, but I 
ran out of ways to procrastinate so I had to drop by.  Uh, I do need 
spoiler space before the 16th, right?

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Cindy quoted the Washington Post:
 
> "The adult actors perform admirably -- particularly the oversized 
> Robbie Coltrane as the giant Hogwarts groundskeeper, Hagrid. But 
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> 12-year-old actor Daniel Radcliffe -- who looks almost exactly 
> like "The Weakest Link" hostess Anne Robinson -- brings a 
> disappointing minimalism to the plum role of Harry. Faced with 
stuff 
> that would thoroughly gross out most kids -- from vomit-flavored 
> candy to a splat of dragon saliva in his eye -- Radcliffe routinely 
> responds with the mildest of shrugs."

Yeah, yeah, yeah.  The American standard for child actors is 
Shameless Mugging.  I bet the Post thought Macaulay Culkin's 
screaming thing was really cute.  The two little bits I've seen (the 
letters scene and the Getting onto Platform 9 3/4) were really well 
acted (love the twinge when the first letter hits Vernon).  Subtle, I 
calls it.  Movie reviews, good or bad, are a load of crapola in my 
ONAAHO (obviously not at all humble opinion).

Amy
who wants to know what's all this about dragon saliva?