It was, as expected, a wonderful night out for my family, along with a couple hundred others in the mostly teenage audience. Everything about the film marked it as different - the clothing, the locations, the coloring, the music and, for long stretches, the absence of any characters other than the three young heroes. They had to carry a lot more weight in this picture, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that they had the acting chops to pull it off. They are, in fact, much better actors now than they were not just at the beginning of the series, but even in the most recent episodes. (My kids agree with this assessment.)
The fact that the film makers decided to split the final book in the series into two films is a great boon because it gives them a certain luxury of time to allow the full story to unfold. I wish they had done likewise with the
Goblet of Fire (at least), which was so truncated on the screen that virtually all exposition and character relations were sacrificed to what was, in the end, just a series of action scenes (with an inexplicably angry and voluble Dumbledore).
The Deathly Hallows, Part I is recommended to anyone who does not place themselves above and beyond the many charms of J.K. Rowling's books.
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