Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince

Title: Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince

Year Of Release: 2009

Review Date: June 30, 2010

Rating: PG-13

Running time: 153 minutes

Box Office Gross: $933,959,197

Site Rating: 2 out of 10 stars

"Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince" is the six movie in the film series that sprang from the dark mind of J.K. Rowling, whose works a judge once labeled "Gibberish." Harry Potter, played by Daniel Radcliffe, finds a book of magic spells belonging to the "Half Blood Prince" and begins to use it, breeding trouble.

For a film generally marketed to small kids and teens, it certainly was violent, bloody and dark. Scenes of ungodly witchcraft permeate this film, as that is the entire concept of Harry Potter. It is easy to dismiss it as just a film, but so many of the scenes interspersed among the school banter, is not healthy for its audience's psyche. The devil is in the details.