It was good, but I dunno, it left me kind of empty. Maybe its because I read the book there were no real surprises, but then that didn't affect my enjoyment of the first two.
It was a good movie, thought he last frame is awful..
I think my main complaint was that it felt too different then the other movies. The harry potter theme music was for the most part absent, the geography of Hogwarts has been completely changed so that Hagrids hut, the womping willow and the entrance to Griffindor tower are all in different places then in the previous film. There was no nearly headless nick and instead some weird horse ghosts, and for some reason Crabbe (Malfoy's lackey) disappears half way through the movie to be replaced by a new henchman with a girly voice. What was that all about?
I could of done without all the silent era style fade ins and fade outs bookending every scene.
David Thewlis' Lupin was really well realized, and while Gary Oldman was good the limited screentime for his character didn't allow me to really connect with the character. While I'm a big Michael Gambon fan, I think Cuaron's take on Dumbledore is a bit too distinct for me to really connect him as the same character that Richard Harris played. My general rule of thumb is that if you're going to swap actors on the audience, you can't change anything else about the character, at least until the next sequel when their settled in and firmly established.
All in all the movie looked and played out as I imagined it in the book, the shreeking shack scene at the end especially was pretty spot on.
Buckbeek looked great.
I'm not really sure how to rate this movie, it was good for the most part, but i found myself bored for most of it. Maybe the problem is me and not the movie, I'm not sure. But I think for the time being I'm going to have to rate this one my least favorite.
Its basically how I felt about the Two Towers, I just rarely connected with it. When I watch FOTR and TROTK I feel like I'm watching a LOTR movie, I feel like I'm reading the book. But excluding the first 40 minutes and the last 5 minutes, I never felt that during TTT. LIkewise this just didn't feel like a Harry Potter movie to me.