Word: hippogriff
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...Mike NewellWarner Bros. Pictures4 1/2 starsI’ll make no bones about it: I am a Potter man, through and through. Perhaps the majority of the disgruntled, middle-aged baldies who comprise the homogenous world of film criticism and can’t tell a horcrux from a hippogriff, can give you a review based more on cinematic merit than adoration. But for those who treasure this series like I do, I can say with confidence that “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” is easily the most satisfying Harry Potter film thus far.This...
...admire its handiwork and splashed splendid images on the screen at a brisk pace. Azkaban conjures up a purple triple-decker bus (it can instantly slim itself to pass between two vehicles), a Monster Book of Monsters (it snarls at Harry, then scoots under his bed) and Buckbeak the hippogriff (a wonderfully realistic creature with an unpredictable personality). And does it all without preening...
...kids to (yawn) learn. It offers a bibliography, for Pete's sake. And some of the literary allusions are a little bit esoteric for the ordinary five-year-old monster fan. Five-year-olds are made to feel like losers if they don't remember that the Hippogriff was, of course, the animal that Ruggiero rode in Ariosto's epic, "Orlando Furioso...
...scholarship. The reader is invited to consider such symbolic creatures as the Basilisk, a remote cousin of Medusa, which kills with its stare. Closer to home is the Pennsylvania Squonk, which dissolves in its own tears when captured. There is also that symbol of incongruity-or sheer perversity -the Hippogriff. It is half horse and half griffon. But that is only half of it; the griffon itself is already half eagle and half lion...
...notebooks, oddments of thought and author's asides. The chief irony of The Girls, though, is that Costals, who keeps asserting that creative man must free himself from the constricting influence of women, ends by falling victim to his own fear and rage. Costals never succumbs to the Hippogriff. But by defining himself so incessantly in relation to women, he becomes, in some peculiar and not very attractive way, very much a ladies...