As the anticipation of this movie was overwhelming to many, I always try and go in with the least amount of outside influence as possible, such as trailers, reviews or hipe. The goods as always, are the charactors, costumes and definitly the scenery in this movie they really stepped out of the norm. This impresses me, but it might scare the Harry Potter regular to step outside of its purely magical zone. As for an average viewer I think it could of simply been compressed by shortening scenes that clearly had some dead time in them, this would of given the movie a more even flow, instead of highs and lows. Well my kids loved it and maybe thats what matters.