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 Order of the Phoenix

Political changes are a particularly difficult thing to write about when writing a children’s story. All too often it’s the case of portraying one side as the heroes whilst the others the villains, like Amon and Kuvira in Korra. Suffice it to say this is my least favourite of the Harry Potter books, not to say it was bad, but I’ll explain what I mean in the review.

David Yates steps into the director’s chair for this film, he’ll be the director of all the remaining Harry Potter movies. And the daunting trial for this movie is that it’s the longest book of the series, ironically converted into the shortest movie (counting the 2 deathly hallows movies as one anyway)

Movie made $939.9m on a $150m budget, but appraisal was a tad more mixed with a 71% on rotten tomatoes.

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.