I almost always agree with the critics, but this time. Yes, it has a lot of plot holes. And, yes, its climax isn't that worthy of applause. But this might be the first time you had so much fun with a newcomer since The Philosopher's Stone. And, curiously, it has almost the exact same flaws of the first HP movie: it doesn't know where it will lead, it has the pressure of being exactly like the book and kinda needs the support roles to make the movie a solid picture.
A lot of flaws that don't take off the shine of this movie: it's one of those times you watch a flawed start that could turn into a big franchise. Visuals are mostly breathtaking, CGI almost always in its best and a solid screenplay.
Main roles are fittable, if not the best representation of its book counterparts, and Lena Headey and Robert Sheehan steal the picture in almost every minute of their presence. Villains are a little messy - but don't you say Quirrell was a decent one. Jokes - even sexual ones - have a nice place.
But, most of the times, you can say you're watching a good movie by its direction: Harald Zwart abuses from different camera angles, making you follow the action and even get dizzy with its high vistas - something really nice for IMAX exhibitions, even if it's DMR-processed. Soundtrack is also a charm: Zedd's ''Into The Lair'' could have sounded cheap, but the scene it plays is directed so well, it seems perfect. Demi Lovato's can be judged as a audience-grabber, but it echoes during the movie as the love theme Lana Del Rey's ''Young and Beautiful'' came up to be in 2013's The Great Gatsby. Colbie Caillat's ''When The Darkness Comes'' is, though, the OST's least song, but it feels greater in the movie.
Gags rule the second act of the movie, but in such a dumb-laughing way, you feel they don't make the movie bad - or stupid - at all. No Lightning-Thief-messing-up. Disconsidering the book (and all of the discussions about Jace not being British), you can say it's a movie on its own: you ain't missing plots without reading the book and, if you feel there are lots of holes, they must be somewhat in the book too.
It's the summer (possibly) blockbuster you didn't know you were eagering for.
A lot of flaws that don't take off the shine of this movie: it's one of those times you watch a flawed start that could turn into a big franchise. Visuals are mostly breathtaking, CGI almost always in its best and a solid screenplay.
Main roles are fittable, if not the best representation of its book counterparts, and Lena Headey and Robert Sheehan steal the picture in almost every minute of their presence. Villains are a little messy - but don't you say Quirrell was a decent one. Jokes - even sexual ones - have a nice place.
But, most of the times, you can say you're watching a good movie by its direction: Harald Zwart abuses from different camera angles, making you follow the action and even get dizzy with its high vistas - something really nice for IMAX exhibitions, even if it's DMR-processed. Soundtrack is also a charm: Zedd's ''Into The Lair'' could have sounded cheap, but the scene it plays is directed so well, it seems perfect. Demi Lovato's can be judged as a audience-grabber, but it echoes during the movie as the love theme Lana Del Rey's ''Young and Beautiful'' came up to be in 2013's The Great Gatsby. Colbie Caillat's ''When The Darkness Comes'' is, though, the OST's least song, but it feels greater in the movie.
Gags rule the second act of the movie, but in such a dumb-laughing way, you feel they don't make the movie bad - or stupid - at all. No Lightning-Thief-messing-up. Disconsidering the book (and all of the discussions about Jace not being British), you can say it's a movie on its own: you ain't missing plots without reading the book and, if you feel there are lots of holes, they must be somewhat in the book too.
It's the summer (possibly) blockbuster you didn't know you were eagering for.