Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Warning Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince spoiler, but if you have read the book you know what happens anyway.
Don’t be late for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince because it starts out dark and powerful. While full of plenty of magical action and drama the content has matured with the ages of the original audiences. Love interests change faster than a magical dueling match exchanging spells. Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) falls for infatuated Lavender Brown (Jessie Cave), leaving Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) jilted and in a jealous rage. Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) has his own love triangle, when Ron’s sister, Ginny (Bonnie Wright), starts dating another student with him, as Ron complains to Harry that he is “Running his hands all my sister.”
Hermione unleashes some magic in response to being jilted by Ron and she also gives some scathing looks that no man wishes to see from a woman. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince explores the pain of being dumped by your first love and what happens when forced to face these changes. Some of the girls come across as down right randy in their obsession with the boys. Even the broomsticks in the Quidditch match have changed to have a bawdy phallic look. As Ron so aptly states in one scene, “These girls are going to kill me!” yes the movie includes lots of scenes of the older more mature Hogwarts students sneaking away to dark, secluded parts of the castle for some intense Snogging. By the end of the film all the right lovers are back together with each other a little wiser and more experienced.
The story of course is about the Half Blood Prince and Harry finds an old Potions book with copious notes that was previously owned by him. The true owner is reveled when Professor Snape (Alan Rickman) turns and says to Harry, “How dare you use my own spells on me. Yes I am the Dark Blood Prince.” This after Snape has killed Dumbledore (Michael Gambon), because Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton) cannot perform in his opportunity to be a true dark wizard. He was lowering his wand when Snape steps in to deliver the final curse that trhows Dumbledore off the ramparts of the Hogwarts castle.
Much of the story revolves around Professor Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent) a professor who “collects” star pupils as he collects magical ingredients. Horace has many sides and Harry is charged by Dumbledore to extract a hidden memory of Tom Riddle. Harry manages to do this by being lucky, the luck produced by a luck potion, when Horace and Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane) get drunk together.
After much dueling, both magical and sexual, the movie stops in mid-story. We will need to wait until the Fall of 2010 to see the three of them go on a quest to find the remaining parts of Tom Riddles soul.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is 153 minutes long, it could be slightly shorter if they shortened the dead spider scene and tightened up some edits. It does drag a little in spots, but the time is used to delve into the charecters a little more so it is not so bad.
I saw this private advanced screening at the Lido Theater in Newport Beach thanks to an invitation by NetJets. NetJets is the way to travel. Thanks NetJets.
Of course you must see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
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