Harry Potter Month - Mini Review: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

We’re counting down to the end, those of you waiting for a long review of a Harry Potter movie need wait only a little longer, but first we need to look at a lie I might’ve told. Last time I said that the Order of the Phoenix was my least favourite of the Harry Potter movies, that might’ve been true when I was younger but looking at it now, I see this as a contender, for reasons I’ll explain momentarily.

By far this is the movie with the biggest budget, $250m was given, it made $934.4m at the box office, a marginal improvement over the last one. Critically successful, it holds 84% on rotten tomatoes and 78 average on metacritic but let’s dive into my own opinions

Harry Potter Month - Mini Review: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Chris Columbus steps down as director and there are some significant changes in style as a result, most of which stick throughout the remaining films. Obviously the death of Richard Harris resulted in a recast for Dumbledore. Sir Michael Gambon took the role.

It was produced with a $130m budget and made $796.7m at the box office, which, whilst still successful, is the least of any Harry Potter movie. I’ll suggest a possible reason for the boost when I do the review for the next film, but let’s take a look at this one first.

Harry Potter Month - Mini Review: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

So we come to the second adaptation of a JK Rowling Novel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. 

Interestingly this movie only had a $100m budget as opposed to the $125m for the first one, the film made $879m, an admirable performance but still below that of the first one.

Critical response was also positive, 83% on Rotten Tomatoes although only 63/100 on metacritic, the least of any Harry Potter Movie. But I’m not here to judge on other’s opinions, I’m here to give my own, so let’s dive in.