This being the third film, I am starting to notice little things that are in every one. The way it always starts before the school term begins and Harry is staying with this horrible Aunt and Uncle. Oh what mischief can he get up to now! It just proves that wizards should not live with disrespectful muggles. The movie also ends when the kids break for summer. Each year it starts with the children growing another foot taller and looking about 2 years older (um, maybe because they are...).
The most disappointing start to the film was when Dumbledor welcomes everyone to a new term. "Dumbledor? That's not you... what happened". I never followed the casting of these movies but I do remember something about the actor passing away. Still, it's such a shame that the wardrobe department couldn't have eased the grief even a little by keeping Dumbledor's beard, hair and general clothing style the same. Are we meant to believe that an old wizard like Dunbledor would dye his beard a darker grey and tie it in a hair band? Once again, I digress.
The movie begins with the usual threat on Harry Potter's life. This somewhat uninteresting boy holds great power that everyone is either in awe of or hates. A prisoner manages to escape from the legendary prison of Azkaban. Harry gets told by several people that this prisoner, Serious Black, was a follower of Lord Voldemort and killed Harry's parents. He was also Harry's god-father.
The prison guards, these deathly creatures roam the school to protect the students from Serious. They end up attacking Harry, on numerous occasions, until he has the confidence to cast the ultimate spell against them. He gets taught by the new teacher how to protect himself from them and gets given a lot of chocolate every time he passes out. What a feeder!
The trio end up finding another type of trio. The 3 friends of Harry's parents. Serious Black, the new teacher and a man who turned himself into a rat to avoid capture, looked after by Ron all this time. The truth comes out eventually when the rat-man confesses to being the real following of Voldemort. I am still a little confused as to why Serious escaped in the first place... if it wasn't to kill Harry...
Stuff happens and Hermione ends up bringing Harry back in time to fix everything... I still didn't get that part but 'time travel' is such a cop out in terms of story telling. It's like ending a story with "And then she woke up and realised that it was all a dream...".
The funniest part of the movie was when Ron is having a nightmare and ends up sleep walking. He turns to Harry and says "The spiders... they want me to tap dance... I don't want to tap dance". You tell 'em Ron!
Another point that I noticed was the poor teacher of the 'Protection against the dark arts'. Every term there is a new teacher as they are either killed, run away or are banned from teaching. Needless to say that the children mustn't be learning very much with that much change.
Anyway, I must put away my notes from this film. As the twins would say "Mischief managed"!
2 comments:
You'll be referring to him a lot so i figured i'd point out *Dumbledore.
Sirius escaped in order to protect harry because he heard voldemorts followers were gathering again and he promised his father. more becomes clear in 4
Thank you Anon. I was wondering about the spelling. I have also been corrected on the spelling of *Sirius. Just about to head to see 4!
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