little-brit

To be honest, it was OK at best. There were a few good scenes where they were fighting, but a lot of the intentionally unsteady camera work made it uncomfortable to follow at times and I was horrified when it ended - just like that - as if it was a TV show that should have had "To be continued" at the end...we paid a lot to go, our round trip took four buses, and it was my 8 year olds birthday treat, I felt like I saw half a film - which I guess I did, but they could have had some kind of conclusion to end it at, rather than a scene that was clearly just going to be continued at a later date.

I think after leaving the house at 10am, not going in until 12:15, sitting through 45 minutes of adverts...by the end of the film, my little boy was just glad we were going home.

If the kids aren't dead set on seeing it right now, wait until Part 2 comes out then take a day and watch them together. By next year when the final part is released, my son will probably have grown out of HP and we'll be on to the next thing and I'll never know what happened...I guess I'll have to read the book.

Balamory is excellent but forget the title song, they added a rock song for each character. The greatest by far is P.C. Plum's song - done in the style of 70's/80's rock, very much a "Queen" tribute. It has Plumy playing on the roof of Buckingham palace. It has visual effects the same as Bohemian Rhapsody. It's a classic rock track. It's fabulous. Fortunately, our four year old likes it too so we pretend we're humouring him and listen to it quite often.

There's a CD too. Buy it. Some of the other songs are good and Archie is always funny, Miss Hoolie is charming, I love that Suzie and Penny are there to help each other, Josie and Spencer don't get the good stories but Edie is always where it's at - she's Miss Hoolies best friend, they went on holiday together the other episode. Brilliant stuff.

Watch out for that plum song. Outstanding.