Usual lot including Ralph Fiennes (managing the trick of looking scary and sad under all the make-up), Matthew Lewis (Neville), Tom Felton (Draco), Evanna Lynch (Luna), Kelly Macdonald (ghost of Ravenclaw), Ciaran Hinds (Dumbledore's brother), Nick Moran.
More beautiful dark photography by Eduardo Serrra (Panavision).
Music Alexandre Desplat. Editing Mark Day.
Absolutely sensational (use of) CGI.
I felt the ending lacked a big finish, something clever, a laugh, and the final duel is one fiery wand scene too many. Hardly anyone has any decent scenes. So I think Yates let us down a bit.
And today, after having watched the whole series and back to back with Part One:
Inflatus! Suffers from The Hobbit problem (why make a book into two or three films?) It's gone very Hollywoody (big Hollywoody music, OTT Gringotts sequence, big Lord of the Rings style battle). Where's Hagrid (in both parts)? Good writing though (Maggie: "I've always wanted to use that spell") and there's a couple of moments where there could have been a cheesy Hollywoody line, but they didn't, so maybe it wasn't too Hollywoody. Loved the moment where Mrs Weasley (does she have a first name?) despatches Bellatrix (we don't really see enough of HBC). Also thought Warwick Davies was a great goblin. Don't see enough of Ginny. (That's how you feel after too many Martinis.)
There is an Eduardo Serra moment in each film. This one is:
Alan (pause) Rickman (pause) is very funny again - almost like he's doing the piss-take version of himself with his very deliberate delivery.
Somebody says "Snape knows" and that made me laugh a lot because of 'Snapnose'.
Harry Potter really is the politest young man.
Q points out great sound design too.
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