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Ok. A movie that combines the sheer awesomeness of Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Colin Firth is more or less automatically a good movie in my book. I’d never heard of this movie until I stumbled upon it on Play.com, and I instantly knew I had to get it (although not at the price it had at that time – I waited a bit and got it for £4.99, BARGAIN!) – and I was NOT disappointed.

Basically the story is that Uma Thurman and Colin Firth are getting married. Thurman plays a radio talk show host that gives advice in love, and she “accidentally” breaks up Jeffrey Dean Morgan and his fiancee, right before their wedding. To get even, JDM has a friend hack into the city registry and make it so that he and Thurman are married, which obviously halts the wedding plans of Thurman and Firth. Thurman then tries to find JDM and make him sign the divorce papers, but of course he is utterly and completely charming and perfect.

<fangirl> Of course he is, he’s JDM. </fangirl>

I’m not a big fan of Uma Thurman (except in the Kill Bill movies where she totally kicks ass) – I just don’t think she’s right for the romcom genre. Of course, I might not have thought that about JDM either, having only seen him in Supernatural and Watchmen so far. But ladies, let me tell you – if you don’t already have a crush on this man, you will after this movie. If not, fine, MORE FOR ME.

More…crush. For me.

Colin Firth is, of course, always fabulous. His character in the movie is the kind of character Firth does best – posh and with a stick up his ass. It might not be a big stick, but it’s there.

I absolutely recommend this movie if you’re looking for a bit of light entertainment with a dash of romance and a heavy sprinkle of my-eyes-don’t-hurt-but-other-parts-of-me-do men. (I’m not really sure what parts I mean, but you can make that up for yourself.)

“Please come out here so we can talk. No no no, not you sir. You can put your hands down. Firemen, we don’t arrest people.” -Patrick Sullivan

A few people have commented on my review of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, saying that Hermione’s conjured canaries did in fact attack Ron, and then slam into the wall behind him to become poofs of feathers. Yes, I know. What I missed was them really ATTACKING him, and not just flying at him.

“Harry spun around to see Hermione pointing her wand at Ron, her expression wild: The little flock of birds was speeding like a hail of fat golden bullets toward Ron, who yelped and covered his face with his hands, but the birds attacked, pecking and clawing at every bit of flesh they could reach.”

See? That’s what I meant by attacking. There was no pecking and clawing of the flesh in the movie, was there? If there was, I missed it. Twice.

So there you go, hopefully we’re all on the same page now.

Vimeo failed me again, so I’ve gone with Youtube this time.

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You didn’t think I was going to not review this, did you? Well. I watched it a while ago, but I had to watch it again to really be able to give an opinion on it, and HERE IT IS.

A lot of people have said that the movie has the feel of an inbetween movie, and I agree. However: I still enjoyed it immensely! They’d stayed pretty true to the book, more so than I had expected, so that was a surprise.

The good

• Apparation
• Slughorn
• Quidditch!
• Cormack McLaggen. How hot was he!? (I looked it up, and he’s only 5 years younger than me, so it’s allowed and all is well.)
• Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes
• High-on-love Ron – best part of the movie
• Lavender Brown
• Rupert Grint’s acting. Best of the three, hands down.
• The bit with the vanishing cabinets was actually pretty good.
• Hermione’s hair in potions class.

The bad

• The intro? I missed Dumbledore vs the Dursleys.
• Bellatrix was a bit over the top crazy at times. Enough with the “I killed Sirius Black” bit now. Please. You’re evil and batshit crazy. WE KNOW.
• The lack of explanation for the horcrux-ring.
• Hermione’s birds not attacking Ron.

The ugly

• Dumbledore/Snape. Too obvious – in the book you really couldn’t tell for sure whether Dumbledore was begging for Snape to kill him or to help him.
• Sectumsempra. It didn’t look half as dramatic as I had imagined it.
• Harry/Ginny. It was just…eh.
• Narcissa Malfoy. I thought she was supposed to be pretty? She rather wasn’t, in my opinion. Sorry, person who played her. You’re probably a lovely lady, but I can’t really accept you as Narcissa.

It’s still a 4 out of 5 stars movie. Because, you know, it’s HARRY POTTER (= auto awesome). So, you know, go see it. You might want to read the book first though, because knowing what isn’t shown in the movie rather helps (although Tor hasn’t read the book, and he had no trouble following the plot).

“In my life I have seen things that are truly horrific. Now I know you will see worse.” -Albus Dumbledore

It’s Renate! from Renate S on Vimeo.

What is UP with the stills Vimeo chooses? WHAT. IS. UP. with those.

Edit: The video didn’t play properly, so I removed it – will try and upload it to Vimeo again later, as my local copy is just fine.