harry potter and the prisoner of continuity...

My mom is here for the week so last night after the kids were in bed, the Wife and I went to see Harry Potter. It was beautifully directed, what with all of the English landscapes and Standing Stones, but it had plot-holes big enough to fly a hippogriff through. And I'm not talking about tiny omissions or run of the mill deviations from the book.... I'm talking about great gaping lapses in exposition that threaten to leave the viewer completely bewildered. So much of the denouement was left unexplained that I can't imagine there aren't Very Important Facts that will need to be patched up in later films.

Oh well.... at least the 3 kids can kinda act now. And the new Dumbledore didn't suck.