Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Erica and I were given free tickets to go see the latest Harry Potter yesterday. We were able to find a friend to watch Emmy while we went and saw the show.

The show follows the book pretty well. They left out or modified some parts, but we both felt that they did a good job of including important parts, including character-developing content, and ensuring important lines were verbatim. I thought they did an excellent job in particular with the development of Ron and Draco. There were at least a couple of times where the camera was on a member of the Potter group and shifted to show Draco in such a way that was superbly done.

There are a good number of laughs to be had, mostly poking fun at exaggerated adolescent love. There were good effects, especially in one scene with Dumbledore. The movie has some dark parts to it, which is in line with how the book went.

The movie is rated PG. I don't know the reason why some of the others were PG-13, but one thing I noticed about this movie is that there was much less "breaking of rules" and disobedience by the good guys. There was a little, but not much.

This is definitely one we want to add to our collection. I'll give it 5 stars. Not my all-time-favorite movie, but definitely one I'll enjoy watching regularly.