20 Most Ridiculous Lines From The Harry Potter Films

3. "Aaaaaahhhhhhhh!" - Prisoner Of Azbakan

The Line: The movie ends with Sirius sending a Firebolt broom to Harry, who then flies it off to the joy of both himself and everyone watching. He flies into the air, screaming his lungs out, and the movie ends...on quite possibly the worst freeze frame in film history. Why It's Ridiculous: There's nothing inherently wrong with the fact that Harry's screaming with a combination of joy and terror while soaring into the air on a broom, but Alfonso Cuaron of all directors completely bungles the final shot, a cheesy freeze frame on Harry's exhilarated face, complete with an ugly motion blur, before we slowly fade to black. It's a horribly misjudged creative choice from Cuaron (remember, this is the guy who directed freaking Gravity), and is completely at odds with the darker tone he helped introduce in the third movie: it's just-plain cornball and something we'd expect out of an 80s teen comedy, not a Harry Potter movie. Jeez.
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