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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews 11-07-27 11:29 PM movie reviews Reviews Great Movies Answer Man People Commentary Festivals Oscars Glossary One-Minute Reviews Letters Roger Ebert's Journal Scanners Store News Sports Business Entertainment Classifieds Columnists search HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG-13) Ebert: Users: You: Rate this movie right now GO Search powered by YAHOO! register You are not logged in. Log in » Subscribe to weekly newsletter » Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 times & tickets BY ROGER EBERT / July 13, 2011 in theaters Fandango Search movie After seven earlier films more current releases » showtimes and buy reaching back a decade, tickets. the Harry Potter saga cast & credits one-minute movie reviews comes to a solid and Harry Potter Daniel Radcliffe satisfying conclusion in still playing about us "Harry Potter and the Ron Weasley Rupert Grint Deathly Hallows: Part 2." Hermione Granger Emma Watson About the site » The finale conjures up Bellatrix Lestrange Helena Bonham The Art of Getting By Bad Teacher enough awe and solemnity Carter Beautiful Boy Site FAQs » to serve as an appropriate Hagrid Robbie Coltrane finale and a dramatic The Beaver Lord Voldemort Ralph Fiennes Beginners Contact us » contrast to the lighthearted Dumbledore Michael Gambon A Better Life (relative) innocence of Minerva McGonagall Maggie Smith The Big Uneasy Email the Movie "Harry Potter and the Answer Man » Sirius Black Gary Oldman Bill Cunningham New York Sorcerer's Stone" all those Snape Alan Rickman Blank City magical years ago. Bride Flight Remus Lupin David Thewlis Bridesmaids on sale now Harry, Hermione and Ron Buck are grown up now, and Warner Bros. presents a film Captain America: The First Avenger Harry has even grown the directed by David Yates. Written by Cars 2 facial stubble required of all Steve Kloves, based on the novel Conan O'Brien Can't Stop epic heroes. The time has by J.K. Rowling. Running time: 131 Everything Must Go Film Socialisme come for him to face Lord minutes. Rated PG-13 (for some Voldemort in their final Forks Over Knives sequences of intense action Friends with Benefits showdown, and their violence and frightening images). conflict is staged in a series Green Lantern The Hangover Part II of special effects Printer-friendly » Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Buy now » sequences containing E-mail this to a friend » Hesher power and conviction. I am Horrible Bosses still not sure what the bolts How to Live Forever discharged by magic wands In Memoriam actually consist of, but Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer never mind. They look Jumping the Broom wicked and lethal. Kung Fu Panda 2 Larry Crowne I dare not reveal a single crucial detail about the story itself, lest I The Last Mountain offend the Spoiler Police, who have been on my case lately. Besides, Louder Than a Bomb Buy now » you never know. Maybe they've completely rewritten J. K. Rowling's A Love Affair of Sorts final book in the series. Maybe Harry dies, Voldemort is triumphant, Make Believe The Man Who Fell to Earth and evil reigns. Meek's Cutoff Midnight in Paris What I can observe is that this final film is a reunion of sorts for a Monte Carlo great many characters we've come to know over the years. So many Mr. Popper's Penguins distinguished British actors have played roles in the Potter films that The Names of Love those who haven't may be fitfully resentful. Here we see once again Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today characters whose names were once new and now resonate with Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times Buy now » associations: Bellatrix Lestrange, Rubeus Hagrid, Professor Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Dumbledore, Ollivander, Lucius Malfoy, Sirius Black, Severus Snape, The Princess of Montpensier Remus Lupin and even Prof. Minerva McGonagall, who is called Project Nim upon to summon her powers and shield Hogwarts School from the Le Quattro Volte powers of Voldemort. Queen to Play Rejoice and Shout Snow Flower and the Secret Fan You don't want to know what happens to Hogwarts here. Many of its The Soft Skin shining spires and noble gothic arches are reduced to ruin and Something Borrowed ashes, providing an apocalyptic battleground. The school also seems Strongman to have mysteriously relocated adjacent to towering heights that Submarine Buy now » permit vertiginous falls to the earth far below. There is no place in Super 8 Britain that fits this geography, but then is Hogwarts quite in the real Tabloid Britain? Terri What is does occupy is a Britain of the imagination. The series has 13 Assassins remained faithful to J. K. Rowling's original conception, and resisted Thor temptations to cheapen its action or simplify its complexity. She Transformers: Dark of the Moon created a fictional world with its own logic and consistency, and here The Tree of Life at the finale, there is some satisfaction in seeing loose ends tied up, The Trip lingering mysteries explained and suspicions confirmed. Trollhunter Twelve Thirty Buy now » Winnie the Pooh In a dreamy sequence, we are allowed to see the characters as they X-Men: First Class were in the beginning. They were so young. By spanning something Zookeeper like real time, the story has grown older along with them. Daniel Radcliffe, born 1989, was 11 when he first played Harry Potter, is 21 more current releases » now, and he and Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) have luckily remained recognizable and soldiered on on dvd through what involved a great deal of hard labor. Not many young actors have been worked so relentlessly for a decade. new on dvd Buy now » That said, it's apparent again in this film that the three leads are upstaged by the supporting characters. Their role is to be plucky, more new on dvd » clean-cut and stalwart. They sneak around and observe things. They eavesdrop. They speculate. They are lectured to. They endure a little coming on dvd low-key puberty. Harry struggles to master his magic. Meanwhile, such British legends as Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman and Ralph Fiennes steal scenes just more coming on dvd » by standing there. What chance does Harry or anybody have against Voldemort's smashed face with its nostril slits? Late in the film, great movies on dvd Buy now» leaving nothing to chance, Voldemort even appears as his own fetus, looking like it's been simmered in red sauce. more great movies on dvd » It is Fiennes' Voldemort who dominates this last installment, illustrating the old actors' axiom that it is better to play the villain than the hero. It takes a considerable villain to hold his own in the crumbled ruins of Hogwarts, and force the remaining students to choose between the friends of Harry or joining him on the dark side. Considering what has happened to Hogwarts, it's a little surprising that the students haven't been sent home, but then Dumbledore has Buy now» had other things on his mind. This movie is impressively staged, the dialogue is given proper weight and not hurried through, there are surprises which, in hindsight, seem fair enough, and "Harry Potter" now possesses an end that befits the most profitable series in movie history. These films will be around for a long time. And without spoiling a single thing, let me just observe that the final scene clearly leaves an opening for a sequel. I know, Rowling says there won't be one. Just sayin'. Buy now» Note: This entire movie is dark, gloomy and filled with shadows. So it should be. That makes it particularly inappropriate for the additional dimness of 3-D. There are a few shots that benefit from 3-D (I like the unfolding of the little magical globe) but none that require it. Avoid the surcharge and see the film in proper 2-D with brighter color. Canada DVD Rental Guide We review all 14 Canadian DVD rental sites so you pick the best. 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