I've just been to the cinema to see this and to my surprise enjoyed it as I'm not a fan of the HP films preferring the books.
We watched it in 3D and at times it was amazing, I would go so far as to say it's the best film I've seen in the 3D format.
I took my 6 year old DS and we bumped into a classmate of the same age in the cinema and the boys did not find it scary or sad at all - in fact the part of the film that distressed them both the most was "the kiss" which they both gave a very French "beurk". So if anyone who has younger children was considering but was concerned I'd say go for it.
I can't comment on the language because we watched it in French but I was surprised by how many "merdes" were being flung about so maybe there is some bad language in the English version.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
chickflit · 13/07/2011 18:36
I've seen it twice now, once with my daughter and once with my husband and both kids. I loved it. I know the books well and I have great affection for them. You can't judge the film based on the book.
I think DR did a great job. The whole point of the character of HP is that he is just a normal kid to whom extraordinary things happen. He is not a particularly characterful guy - it's tough to act that sort of role. DR has worked really hard on his craft and it has paid dividends. He's come a long way from Philosopher's Stone in which he really was cr ... not particularly impressive.
But the film belonged to Alan Rickman and Ralph Fiennes. Just magnificent, both of them. I wept a lot at the pensieve scenes and I thought Voldemort's final demise was perfect. The whole point is that he has been slowly destroyed through the horcruxes until all that is left of him is a brittle shell with no internal substane whatsoever, and when Harry finally confronts what's left of him, he simply disintegrates. Perfect. And beautifully rendered on screen. I found it very effective.
I think my most memorable moment, oddly enough, was the spidery hug Voldemort gave Draco. It was so creepy and weird and disturbing - brilliant moment.
And I have to put a word in for my main man Lucius. Poor, darling, pathetic, hopeless thing. Jason Isaacs just perfection once again, even though it was painful to watch. Still, if Luci needs some TLC after all that, he can come to me. 
you know - i think as an adult looking back on my later school (mid teen) years i put a passion in the characters in the book that isn't there in the film - the teen 'life or death' stuff is really real in this story but the films just don't cut it - and there is no sexual passion at all between R&H or H&G - i mean, it's all we could think about at 17 (even if we weren't doing it).....
At the end of the day it's a chlidren's book and a children's film.....too much blood, gore, anger or nooky would have got the censors pretty riled 
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Ah I've checked catch up tv on demand and it's not there. That's a shame 
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