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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

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I went to see Coraline as a treat to myself after my first horrible history exam. I got a ticket to the 3D version, mostly because I’ve never seen an entire movie in 3D before (my only previous experience with 3D on TV was during the Winter Olympics in 1994, where everyone got cheap 3D glasses to watch something in 3D. Can’t remember what it was, only that it wasn’t revolutionary.), but also because I figured that an animation movie would be perfect for 3D.

And I was NOT wrong. Wow. Here’s a photo reenactment of what I imagine I looked like during many parts of the movie:

(Yeah, it’s not a very good picture, and I’m not a very good actor.)

I love Neil Gaiman’s work, there’s no secret there. I’ve read Coraline, and it was…creepy. In the movie, the creepy is enhanced, tenfold, at least. So is the quirkiness of Gaiman’s world - I especially loved the mouse circus (before the truth of it was revealed, that is).

So - visually stunning, with a great score and excellent voice acting, this is a movie well worth watching. The 3D just put the icing on the cake, and I highly recommend you see it in 3D if you have the opportunity. It did get a little hard on the eyes after a while, but if that’s a general issue with longer movies in 3D or if it was caused by my eyesight differing from one eye to the other, I don’t know. Still, I’d do it again.

If you’ve read the book, I’m sure you won’t be disappointed in its translation to the big screen. It’s been quite a while since I read it myself, so if there were any major changes I didn’t catch them simply because I’ve forgotten the details of the written story. However, the movie’s storyline came together flawlessly, and made the movie into a wonderful, enchanting and scary fairytale - just the way I like it.

“You probably think this world is a dream come true… but you’re wrong.” -Cat