Actually, I think that the movie is ONLY about 2 hours 18 minutes.
While I liked it I felt that they breezed through most of the material too quickly to be effective. I would have expanded the student prank war on Umbridge into a montage scene while combining several of the Luna Lovegood scenes to save time elsewhere.
My biggest complaint is that the CGI Grawp looks like a bad stereotype of a big retarded guy. While he is quite stupid I feel that it is in poor taste to make him look like a retarded human.
On the other hand, since I saw the IMAX version I have to say that the 3D battle at the end was fairly good (from the Thestralback flight to the Department of Mysteries straight through the end of the Dumbledore/Voldemort fight). It may not have quite been worth the extra money for the tickets, tolls, and gas as compared to seeing it in a nearby regular theater but I was still impressed.
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"Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV
While I liked it I felt that they breezed through most of the material too quickly to be effective. I would have expanded the student prank war on Umbridge into a montage scene while combining several of the Luna Lovegood scenes to save time elsewhere.
My biggest complaint is that the CGI Grawp looks like a bad stereotype of a big retarded guy. While he is quite stupid I feel that it is in poor taste to make him look like a retarded human.
On the other hand, since I saw the IMAX version I have to say that the 3D battle at the end was fairly good (from the Thestralback flight to the Department of Mysteries straight through the end of the Dumbledore/Voldemort fight). It may not have quite been worth the extra money for the tickets, tolls, and gas as compared to seeing it in a nearby regular theater but I was still impressed.
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"Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV