And during the film’s big climactic battle, Smith and Julie Walters get some tasty moments that make their relatively small roles over the course of the series worthwhile. Alan Rickman gets to show us many sides of Snape, and he’s as compelling as always, even when the flashbacks use some freaky age-erasing special effects that leave his face looking odd.īonham Carter’s Bellatrix Lestrange is as goth-gorgon as ever, but she has some fun with some early scenes in which she gets to portray the Hermione-on-polyjuice-potion version of the character. What the post-Potter careers of Radcliffe, Watson and Grint will be like is anyone’s guess, but at this point they know how to take these particular characters to the bridge without breaking a sweat. (Even the Sorting Hat from the first film makes another appearance.)Īs such, the actors here have to make the most of their fleeting moments, and they consistently do. Parents whose young children haven’t already read the books and aren’t prepared for what’s coming might think twice about this one.Īs if to give fans one last look at every corner of this world, Kloves’ script calls back almost every element of the wizarding world we’ve come to know: From Gringott’s to Olivander’s wand shop to the Honeydews candy store to the Room of Requirement, places that have played key roles in the plot all come up yet again. Major characters have been dying ever since Robert Pattinson got snuffed in “Goblet of Fire,” but the body count has never been as high as it is this time. In other words, things have gotten way, way darker since “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” back in 2001. The forces of darkness are in charge, and they’ve cast a pall over everything, even the usually indefatigable Professor McGonagall (Maggie Smith).
This once-cheery castle, perhaps the movies’ ultimate British boarding school, has the somber feel of an occupied fort. Their quest takes them everywhere from the cavernous and deadly vaults at Gringott’s bank to the halls of Hogwarts. Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint) are still out to find and destroy the various horcruxes that contain pieces of Voldemort’s soul, but thankfully, the endless, gloomy-teen campout sequences of “Deathly Hallows, Part 1” are behind us.
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