Last night I took Nathan and Zoey to see a movie. All in all, the movie was pretty good. I didn’t miss the parts that were cut from the book. It’s been so long since I read the book that when things happened in the movie, I kept thinking, “Oh yeah! That’s what happened”.
This book was where the series started to get really dark. Until we got to this one, we had read the Potter series outloud for bedtime stories. Book 4 started right out of the gate with a nightmare enducing murder and it wasn’t something I wanted to subject their very young minds to.
Fast forward 3 or 4 years to a dark movie theater. At different points in the movie both of them would almost cover their eyes, sit up super straight, or pull their feet up under them in their seats. They laughed at some of the jokes, and both thought the movie was really good. Zoey may have still been a little young for it (many things went over her head). Because it was a movie, and not a book, where her imagination could run wild, the scary parts were just the right amount thrill for her. Nathan and Zoey are what made the movie worth watching for me.
We saw the movie while in Berlin last week. They had AN HOUR of commercials before the movie even started (not even previews…just commercials!)
Yes, it might be too much of a movie for little kids. There is a lot to *see* in the movie.
I reread the book before I saw the movie, so it was pretty fresh in my mind. They left out A LOT. But I think they just couldn’t keep it all in.
Fun movie. Gotta love Harry Potter~