Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Review

The main story line of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is the gathering storm. Voldemort and his allies are building their power and Dumbledore, with Harry’s help are trying to turn the tide.

Rating: Five out of five buckets
Release Date: December 8, 2009
MPAA Rating: PG13
Best Age Group: 8+
Sexual Content: Mild
Violent Content: Moderate
Crude or Profane Language: Mild
Drugs and Alcohol Content: Mild

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Talking Points:

The visual effects are as always, very compelling.

I also read the that this film is the best, most satisfying book-to-film transfer of them all. Though I heard the ending is slightly different.

There are great side stories in this film:

• Harry obtains a potions book that once belonged to the mysterious Half-Blood Prince. Harry is thrilled when he realizes that the Half-Blood Prince’s notes are written along the margins of the pages, which gives Harry great advice on how to improve his spells.

• Malfoy behaves suspiciously during the whole movie, and Harry is determined to find out what Malfoy is up to.

Sexual Content: Mild

• Romance is in the air. I read in a review that this film could’ve been called Harry Potter and the Opera of Soap. Hermoine realizes that she likes Ron, but he starts dating someone else, and she wants to make him jealous. Harry has an admirer, but he likes Ginny. Throughout the movie we see these couples hug, kiss and snuggle in the hallways. These romances are very entertaining, and add a lot of humorous parts to the movie, which I didn’t find as much in 1 -5.

Violent Content: Moderate

• There’s moderate violence, and disturbing parts.

• Ron drinks poison and starts to foam at the mouth.

• Malfoy kicks Harry in the face, and breaks his nose.

• Harry and Dumbledore fight with zombies, and Harry almost drowns.

• Death Eaters destroy a bridge, killing many people.

• Dumbeldore slices his hand with a knife and wipes his blood on a stone to help enter into a cavern. Then once he’s in the cavern he has to drink a special potion which is very painful.

Crude or Profane Language: Mild

• The d-word and h-word are used.

Drug and Alcohol Content: Mild

• Character drink alcohol and a magical potion.
  

Overall this movie, like the first 5 movies, is a very clever, and well constructed fantasy movie. These well liked wizards continue to do an amazing job of capturing the hearts of not only children, but adults as well. I give it 5 buckets.

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