

Maybe I catch on to things faster than most, but I could have sworn we spent the first six movies setting up the fact that Voldermort is evil and he wants to kill Harry Potter. Instead, we spent half the movie with the kids talking in the woods about how bad things are. Taking such a drastic turn for the darker is a tough move to pull off, but could have been successful if the pacing had been a little faster. Harry, of course, is the focus as Voldermort seems intent on finding him and finishing what he started 17 years ago.

Instead of Hogwarts, which doesn’t even appear in the film, we spend most of our time in new locations and instead of our favorite characters being classified by houses, they’re on two separate sides representing good and evil. Now, death looms at every corner and evil seems destined to find our young hero and destroy what good is left in the world of magic.

Gone are the days of cute animal sidekicks, dorky muggle cousins and grumpy old wand-makers. The Harry Potter universe has taken an even darker turn with the first part of HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS.
