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There is still much to fear here, and many things to dread. The dark pallor that hangs over the first half, and the harsh escalation of tactics on Voldemort's part, are not rolled back to give us a bright and sunny climax.

Best of all, there is never a sense that victory is a foregone conclusion.

(Sometimes too clearly: why are people falling and people in front of a fire still the most difficult effects to master?) There are many great sequences within the melee, including several designed to give certain characters their last rousing moments and the audience something to cheer about.

Harry potter and the deathly hallows 1 dvd cover movie#

Without the added 3D element, the dark screen is lifted from the movie and we can actually see all the fighting and special effects. Armies amass, and the epic clash we've been waiting for finally occurs.Īnd one that looks way better on Blu-Ray than it did in the theater, I might add. Way above ground! (Helena Bonham Carter doing an impression of Emma Watson when Hermione has disguised herself as Bellatrix, is also one of my favorite bits of acting in these movies.) The trail naturally leads back to Hogwarts, where Harry quickly wrests control from Snape and, now that he is fully exposed, attracts the attention of Voldemort. This allows for one of the entire series' most exciting action sequences: an underground battle in the goblin bank that quickly goes above ground. New clues give them leads on where the remaining three Horcruxes are sequestered. The Deathly Hallows, Part 2, then, is the kids getting it together and getting back in the fight. Torture, intimidation, prejudice-it's fairly heavy stuff, made all the heavier by the fact that The Deathly Hallows, Part 1 ends with heartbreak. The whole thing culminates in a showdown with Bellatrix Lestrange (Helena Bonham Carter), which shows the kids just how bad things can get. The trio of teens will also have illusions shattered as more is revealed about the secret life of the late wizard Dumbledore, a good lesson in the moral difficulties of a life of ambition and power and the downside of hero worship. This has turned the mystical realm into an oppressive, near-fascist state, where people are scared to stand up for fear they'd be knocked back down. Professor Snape (Alan Rickman) has taken over Hogwarts, while the dark lord has also gotten a few of his people into the magic council. Their anxieties are reflected in the outer world by Voldemort's increased influence. Stranded in the wilderness, the teens must wrestle with their own doubt, fear, and anger. Well, the secret is out, and that plan backfired.īut this half is less about destroying evil than it is about recognizing the dark places in oneself. They must find all the Horcruxes, mystical objects that contain pieces of Voldemort's soul, secreted away presumably to protect them. An early attack by Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) and his minions has left many of Harry's allies dead and wounded, and it's forced Harry, Hermione (Emma Watson), and Ron (Rupert Grint) into hiding even as they continue to carry out their mission.

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The first part is a lot of set-up, a slow burn as the full effects of the curse that Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) has inherited weighs on him and his friends. (Part 1 here, Part 2 over here.) My feelings about them pretty much stand. I covered both films at length upon their theatrical release.

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It does what very few big-budget series manage to do: it saves the best for last. Thankfully, this turned out not to be the case, and I'd even go so far as to say the two-part Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is in contention as the best finish for any multi-film franchise ever. I got into Harry Potter thanks to the movies, and while the series was never perfect-it didn't gel into inclusive moviemaking until the third installment the sixth film, The Half-Blood Prince, stiffed-I looked forward to each new release even as I feared they wouldn't stick the landing. If you started reading the Harry Potter novels at an age near Harry's, you'd grow up together. I had no idea that the tone of the material was going to age with Harry and his friends, that we would go through the difficult periods of adolescence, including awkward growth spurts and fumbled first loves. Had I known that the Harry Potter series was going to end up here, in a dark and challenging world where life is not all magic spells and problems dispensed with a wave of a wand, I'd have probably gotten on board and read the books when they were coming out like everyone else. Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the DVD editions included in the Ultimate Edition, not the main Blu-ray discs under review.