[the_old_crowd] My review...at long last

[Monika Huebner]

"harpdreamer" <pbnesbit at ...> wrote:

>F
>I
>N
>A
>L
>L
>Y
>R
>A
>I
>N
>E
>D
>I
>N
>S
>U
>M
>M
>E
>R
>V
>I
>L
>L
>E
>
>I'm with everyone else on the hippogriff--where did they find one? 
>The CGI was much, much improved (think they learned something from 
>LotR?)

No, but they finally hired a decent Special Effects company. ;-) The
"Creature Motion" was by Industrial Light & Magic, I remember thinking
after seeing the first movie that they should have hired ILM, the SF/X
would have been a lot better.

>The script was much better too--maybe Kloves has finally learned to 
>write ;) 

Who said a decent director won't make a difference? The job requires
more than just to be able to yell, "Action!". ;-)

>I cried in a couple of places, knowing what fate awaited Sirius 
>(still haven't forgiven Jo for that one).

Oh, believe me, you are *not* the only one. :(

>Unlike a lot of you, I liked the flying scene with Harry & Buckbeak--

I definitely liked that scene, it really didn't bother me that in the
book he didn't like the ride, in the movie it seemed just right.

>I was disappointed that we never find out who sent Harry the broom & 
>Pig to Ron. 

Pig might be cut entirely from the storyline, he's not really
important IMHO. But we do know who sent Harry the broom. There was a,
er, Hippogriff feather that came with the firebolt. (I wonder how
Sirius was able to pull it out and *not* get killed. <g>)

Monika