everything but the girl

Left my handheld at my parents' tonight so this is going to be a very short micro-review of GoF, which I saw today at the sneak preview in Miami - and I was lucky enough to win the first grab bag of prizes, so my kids are thrilled to now have the poster and colouring book, and I enjoyed my Ice Mice during the show.

FA's Premiere coverage is now up at the site thanks to vlamidala and darcey321's interviews will be up tomorrow or Tuesday, I hope. She spoke with Dan, Brendan, Miranda, Jamie, Katie, the Phelps twins, David Heyman and Mike Newell. I haven't seen it yet myself, but it sounds like it was all incredibly terrific.

Quick, nonspoilery thoughts on GoF: I liked it a lot, I think the kids are terrific, especially the twins, and of course the grownups were too.

I managed to keep myself almost entirely unspoiled by preview clips - the only thing I'd seen was the preview on Star Wars back in the Spring - so I didn't really know what to expect going in, which is how I saw PoA, too, and which I was pleased about.

Quick ( spoilery thoughts )

I always was sort of like, "oh, yeah, GoF - I'll see it and it'll be fine but even though I didn't love the book I am really looking forward to seeing OotP on screen", but now I am really looking forward to seeing GoF again later this week.

Oh, yes - the kid issue. I am going to take Harry this weekend, but I am going to show him a picture of Voldemort ahead of time so he's not over-upset when he shows up from the cauldron (Now Complete With Robe!) and I am going to close his eyes for the dis-arm-ing scene, but I think he can handle the rest if he manages to finish listening to the audiobook first.

So, now, who am I going to see on Saturday at the IMAX?