[HPFGU-Movie] Where is the humor?

[gwynne]

duchessmadeleine wrote:

>>Is anyone else disappointed about how Harry has been portrayed in
the movies?  In the book he has this wonderful dry british sense of
humor, but in the movies he seems much more stoic.  I realize they can
not portray everything in the movies, but I think they have damaged
his character development by removing those humor aspects that I
personally came to love in the books.<<

I agree. I think that what I like least about the movies is that they
seem to have lost most all the humor from the books, not just with
Harry. There are some wickedly funny moments in both SS/PS and COS
that just got dropped from the films. I don't know if Columbus & Co
were going for a grittier feel, but... why leave out the little
touches that make the books so wonderful and engaging: Lockhart's
pictures in curlers running out of the way, the way the Dursleys
really are portrayed as so buffoonish, Lucius and Arthur fistfighting,
Fred and George bewitching snowballs to smack into Quirrel's turban...
oh, I could go on and on about what is missing, since this is my pet
peeve about the films.

The films really are quite enjoyable, but I'm glad I can go back to
the books and remember how engaging they really are.