User blog comment:Kate.moon/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Review Page/@comment-98.114.148.112-20110727041145

I saw the movie at 2:35 am and thought it was pretty good. For the most part it was like the book, but some small details were overlooked that would have made it much better. Maybe it's just me, but both Part 1 and Part 2 seemed very short, and lacked (like I said before) several semi-important details. Like, right after they got out of Gringotts, it was straight to Hogwarts. There could have been more of a transmission to get there. And Dumbledore's history was not as carefully explained. Also, the whole Final Battle scene was very short. There were many great 1-on-3 and 1-on-2 scenes in the book that could have easily been filmed and added in (Flitwick/Sprout vs. Snape, Voldemort vs. teachers). The Final Battle scene just wasn't as epic as I had pictured, and none of the characters, not even Harry, had big enough parts to strike me as main characters. Severus and Molly both seemed kind of chubby, and the heavy make-up was easily visible in any several second close-up. The children cast as young Lily, Severus, James, and Sirius in Snape's memories were not that accurate to play the roles. As for the epilogue, I think it was a bad decision to use the young actors to portray much older versions of themselves. On the other hand, though, there is no way they could cast different actors to play such important characters. The children in the epilogue weren't perfect, either. Overall, I just wanted the final Hp movie to be more epic and conclusive. What I saw in the theater let me down, it is hard to like the movie with so many issues.