After months of waiting for the release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince I am happy to report that the movie was everything that I had hoped for and more. The children are older (aren't we all) and accurately reflect all the emotions, both good and bad, that teens have and that are expressed in the last three books of the series. It's been a few years since I read this particular book and parts are familar and some parts I questioned - but the story is still wonderful and is the perfect lead in to that final book. You'll feel excitement, frustration, anger, shock and humor and sadness. It's a movie worth watching if you're a Harry fan, and a series worth getting involved in if you haven't yet done so.
I went to see this movie with an anticipation that I would be walking into some unrealistic action film like 'The Day After' or 'FX' or one of the other movies Ronald had done in the past. I state unrealist, but at least entertaining, well developed, characters and chalk full of special effects. This movie deserves a raspberry award. It was some rediculous love story that has been told over and over again. Where did Hollywoods imagination go? This sucked.