I saw Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince last night at midnight, and it was wonderful! Here's my quick review of the movie:

-----CHARACTERS-----

I'm sad to say that I've never enjoyed Mike Gambon as Dumbledore, and that did not change in this movie. He did seem a little more intuitive to his character tho.

Daniel Radcliff was actually enjoyable in this movie! I've always hated Harry - in books and movies -, but I actually quite liked him this go around. His acting has gotten loads better, and he's matured alot. He has several scenes where he quite made me laugh! And I didn't cringe when he cried! amazing!

Tom Felton....ah, my love Tom! He plays Draco, if you don't know, and was by far the best in the movie. He finally gets to step out and have some spotlight in HBP, and he was incredible. His crying was amazing and totally convincing, and he wasn't 2-dimensional in this movie. He looks like hes grown up by about 5 years as well.

Emma Watson(Hermione) was excellent as well...she wasnt the snivelling overbearing girl that the movies always portray her as. She was cool and levelheaded, and you finally get to see her outrightly talking about Ron, and she also had some laugh inducing moments. It was beautiful.

Rupert Grint(Ron) was bloody brilliant as well, going from Lavender Brown (who was annoying, but just enough so that you understood what she was like.), to the convulsions when he was being poisoned(WOW), and then the chemistry between him and Hermione is wonderfully apparent(you've got some toothpaste...).

-----YAY SCENES-----
The scene with Katie Bell being cursed was amazing, and wonderfully done!

The train scene with Draco and Harry was perfect, except I was sad they had Luna find him, tho it was understandable.

Every scene with Snape was perfect. enough said.

I adored the way the movie opened- no words spoken, and you understood exactly what was going on.

Harry with the Felix...WOW. Laughed really hard, he was great, and even though the writers really just had fun with that scene, it was perfect! I didn't mind at all that they added that stuff about the fishbowl. I thought it was beautiful.

The cave scene with Dumbledore. Perfect.

The Astronomy Tower. Once again, perfect. It was amazingly intense.

The Burrow Scene, catching on fire.....YES IT WASN'T IN THE BOOK, I KNOW! But it helped move the story along and portray how much danger everyone was in (especially sets up the Harry-Ginny stuff for Deathly Hallows), and the writers were able to put it in one scene and not have to weave more story lines throughout the movie. JKRowling approved it, and I think it was good for the movie.

The hospital scene with Ron....hilarious and awkward and sweet.

Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, YAY.

QUIDDITCH WAS AMAZING.

Hermione and Harry on the staircase with the bird. WOW. I teared up.

-----EHH SCENES(OR LACK THEREOF)-----

To be honest, I did not like the opening scene of the movie...with Harry hitting on that random girl at the diner. Mmmm, not so much.

No Morvolos, or Toms mothers memories! I was a little saddened by this.

No fight at the end of the movie! In the book, when Harry returned with Dumbledore to the school, the DA was kickin some butt downstairs while everything went on between Dumbledore and Draco, then Snape. I was excited to see that, and must say that was pretty disappointing to me.

I wanted Harry to have been immobilized when Dumbledore died...I think it made it more climactic. It almost made Harry seem...unsure in the movie. Which he was but, you know, he wanted to help in the book, and he couldn't.

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Overall, I thought the movie was incredible. As I was watching it, other than the few things above, there wasn't anything that i was terrible disappointed by, or was angry about.The cinematography was impeccable, and was just beautiful to watch. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, every last minute of it. Even the stupid things like, "Harry, you shoes untied."

As Cody says, "Bloody brilliant."