Plot
Harry, Ron and Hermione search for Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes in their effort to destroy the Dark Lord.
Release Year: 2011
Rating: 8.1/10 (161,060 voted)
Critic's Score: 87/100
Director:
David Yates
Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint
Storyline The final chapter begins as Harry, Ron, and Hermione continue their quest of finding and destroying the Dark Lord's three remaining Horcruxes, the magical items responsible for his immortality. But as the mystical Deathly Hallows are uncovered, and Voldemort finds out about their mission, the biggest battle begins and life as they know it will never be the same again.
Writers: Steve Kloves, J.K. Rowling
Cast: Ralph Fiennes
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Lord Voldemort
Michael Gambon
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Professor Albus Dumbledore
Alan Rickman
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Professor Severus Snape
Daniel Radcliffe
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Harry Potter
Rupert Grint
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Ron Weasley
Emma Watson
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Hermione Granger
Evanna Lynch
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Luna Lovegood
Domhnall Gleeson
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Bill Weasley
Clémence Poésy
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Fleur Delacour
Warwick Davis
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Griphook
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Professor Filius Flitwick
John Hurt
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Ollivander
Helena Bonham Carter
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Bellatrix Lestrange
Graham Duff
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Death Eater
Anthony Allgood
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Gringotts Guard
Rusty Goffe
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Aged Gringotts Goblin
Filming Locations: Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
Box Office Details
Budget: $125,000,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend: $169,189,427
(USA)
(17 July 2011)
(4375 Screens)
Gross: $1,328,111,219
(Worldwide)
(10 December 2011)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia: Kate Winslet was first considered for and reportedly offered the role of Helena Ravenclaw. The role was rejected by her agent before she was able to consider it, believing that Winslet would not want to "follow suit with every other actor in Britain by being a part of Harry Potter". The role subsequently went to Kelly Macdonald.
Goofs:
Incorrectly regarded as goofs:
When Harry, Ron, and Hermione are riding the dragon over London, in the background is the London Eye. Harry was actually born in 1980. In this movie when he is 17 years old, it is supposed to be 1998 and The London Eye was not erected until 1999. However, it is only the books which take place in this time frame, it is never explicitly stated in the films when they take place.
Quotes: Professor Severus Snape:
No! Don't kill me! Professor Albus Dumbledore:
The prophecy did not refer to a women. It spoke of a boy born at the end of July. Professor Severus Snape:
Yes but, he thinks its her son! He intends to hunt them down now, to kill them. Hide her, hide them all. I beg you. Professor Albus Dumbledore:
What will you give me in return, Severus? Professor Severus Snape:
Anything.
User Review
Good, But Disappointing
Rating: 6/10
I watched Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 and was very
pleased with how well it stuck to the book. Because of this, I had high
expectations for Part 2. I mean, if you did so well in the first half,
you have to do just as well in the second half, right? Right? Wrong.
The movie started off very well, starting from exactly where it left
off in Part 1 and staying faithful to the book all the way to when
Harry and co break into Hogwarts. That's where it starts to go down
hill.
*Spoilers!*
The good:
- Neville. He was perfectly perfect. I really wish they gave him more
screen time because he was adorable.
- The Gringott's scene. Very well done.
- The emotion we are shown from Snape. Throughout the series, he's been
rather monotonous and emotionless. In the pensieve, we see a different
side of him and it is a refreshing change.
- The battle at Hogwarts. It was intense and wonderfully done.
- Helena Ravenclaw. It was very emotional and creepy. Although they did
not tell us her back story with the Bloody Baron.
- Rupert Grint and Dan Radcliffe shirtless. That's certainly a plus.
OK you know it's bad when I resort to writing about that.
The bad:
- They completely took out the scene where Harry and Luna go into the
Ravenclaw Common Room, where they are ambushed by one of the Carrows.
It appeared as if they would show it, as I hope they would (I've always
wanted to see the other common rooms), but then they don't. Hm.
- Fred's death scene. Gone. Yup. They show his body once at the end and
don't even give you time to grieve before moving on to the next scene.
This was an insult to his character's memory.
- Crabbe's disappeared. Gets replaced by Zabini, and replaced in a
different way by Goyle.
- Snape's memories are rushed and they take out some of the most
interesting memories. They just go through a few of them quickly. I've
always enjoyed the memories, because you get to see life at Hogwarts
through the eyes of someone else for a change, in a different time era.
- Hermione and Ron battle Nagini, and eventually Neville slays the
snake. Eventually. It takes some time getting to that scene.
- There is not a single mention of Teddy Lupin. That is, until the end
when Harry suddenly knows about Lupin's son. Weird, considering Harry
was camping in a forest and hadn't heard of any of this.
- Collin Creevey is replaced by that random Nigel kid.
- The students are not sent home. No, the teachers think it's OK to
just lock the Slytherins in the dungeons and let everybody else stay
and fight.
- Still no mention of the significance of the horcruxes. Hufflepuff's
cup is just a plain old cup that Voldy turned into a horcrux.
- Not enough interaction with characters other than the trio. Too much
Harry. It's as if everybody else just have cameos.
- Random scene where they blow up one of the bridges (ignoring the fact
that there are like 2 other bridges that would take them into the
school).
- Voldemort's and Bellatrix's death = explosion into confetti!
- Percy's on the good side all of a sudden. No explanation at all (a
reoccurring theme with Yates, don't you think?).
- Harry does not fix his old wand with the Elder Wand. No, instead he
takes the Elder Wand and SNAPS IT IN HALF. Is that even possible? I
didn't think so. So Harry breaks the wand and then chucks it into the
abyss. Really Yates, really?
- All of the fun and cheerful dialogue from the future scene has been
resorted to everybody staring and smiling at each other. No explanation
once again. They don't even say who's who! Plus there is absolutely no
chemistry between Dan and Albus Severus. And it was really awkward to
see them all with old make up on.
- Goodbye Dumbledore's back story!
- Too many attempts at one-liners and humorless jokes.
*End of Spoilers*
All in all, all of the personality and charm of the series was zapped
away in an attempts to make this final movie is action-packed as
possible. It's a shame to see something that you've grown up with,
learned to love, taken and twisted into somebody's 'vision.' I mean,
why bother adding your own unimportant scenes to the movie, when there
are perfectly good ones in the book that you did not bother using at
all? There's no...bonding with the characters, no connection with them
you felt in Part 1. I did not feel the love for this movie like I had
with the book. There was just so much significance that was left out of
that movie, and it is such a shame. It had such potential to be a
fantastic movie, and it fell short all because of the changes that were
unnecessarily made.
See the movie, and I'm sure you'll form your own opinion of it. It's
not a bad movie, just disappointing and unsatisfying for a die-hard fan
who's been following the books for 10 years of their life.
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