Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Went last night to see Harry Potter 6, and enjoyed it pretty well. The theater experience was less than ideal, with a group of tween girls sitting behind us making noise at various points in the movie, but I still managed to enjoy the show. The series of movies and the novels themselves have matured as the audience has matured, so I think most adults will enjoy the movie, despite its dark turn. Kids I'm not so sure will appreciate the subtleties, but I shouldn't probably underestimate them as a group. Anyway, the movie has some subtle humor, and the young actors who play Harry, Ron, and Hermione have an opportunity to be a little more sarcastic, a little more free in their interpretations, and a little more fun overall than they have been in the previous movies. The movie gives Hermione and Ron's relationship time to develop -- a rarety in action movies, let me tell you -- and the actors do a good job of being jealous, smitten, mischievous, and appalled by the other person, while all the while growing closer together. The actor playing Harry is good at being unsure of himself after 6 movies' worth of training in that. This time around, he also gets to be happy (when he takes the "liquid luck" potion), a little bit scary when he shows sparks of the connection between himself and Voldemort, and even funny (yes, funny) in his encounters with Slughorn and early on with Dumbledore. I'm looking forward to the 7th movie whenever it comes out and hope it ends the series as well as this movie tells the story of the 6th book.