We’re coming
down to the end now as we have the penultimate entry to Harry Potter Month and
the last of the mini reviews. I suppose before we start I should make my
opinions clear on the subject of splitting stories over multiple movies. I
think for this film it was necessary. Unlike previous books, where it was easy
to cut things out, this book was fairly linear in its structure, that meaning
that most if not all of the story was focused on a single plot-line rather than
having sub-plots that could be cut out of a movie. I however don’t see necessity
of it for every novel adaptation. I have not read or watched the Hobbit but I
struggle to believe a 300 page novel needs 3 movies to tell the entire story.
As for the latest superhero movies that are up to this, I’ll reserve my
judgement until I’ve seen them.
But back to
the movie itself, this and part 2 were given a joint budget (they were shot
back to back) of $250m, the movie went onto make $960.3m at the box office, the
second highest of any Harry Potter movie. It was reasonably well accepted
critically earning 78% rotten tomatoes and 65 on metacritic. But let’s dive in
