Loved the special effects and of course, I'm hooked on the whole Harry Potter magic. But this was two and a half hours of cute but unrelated moments or real storyline interrupted by goofy teenage infatuation. Voldamort and his Death Eaters have become meaningless ruffians. The story here could have been told in a tight, meaningful way in about 1.5 hours, and I would have been raving about it! Darn!