In what appears to be a growing trend, we here at SEB were highly amused to come across yet another movie parody that attempts to reduce a modern blockbuster, or blockbuster wannabe in the case of Van Helsing, to a mere fifteen minutes. This time it’s “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” in Fifteen Minutes. Here’s a couple o’ free samples:
Great Hall, Hogwarts
GROOVY NEW DUMBLEDORE: Many thanks to the Richard Harris Memorial Toad Choir for that lovely performance. Greetings, salutations, and what up: I will be your new Dumbledore this year, which I’m sure will be fabulous despite the presence of a few hundred undernourished ringwraiths on the premises. Hagrid will be taking over the Care of Magical Creatures class despite having no teaching credentials whatsoever, and also, we have a new teacher, Professor Lupin, to fill our cursed Defense of the Dark Arts spot. Good luck making it through the year alive, Remus!
SNAPE: *gives Lupin the stink-eye*
LUPIN: Oh, I feel at home already.
... and ...
Some Really Long Bridge on the School Grounds That Didn’t Exist Before This Movie
Everyone else has gone to Hogsmeade. Harry can’t, because the Dursleys suck.
LUPIN: So I knew you’d conjure something terrifying, which is why I stopped you.
HARRY: Except that… you totally didn’t.
LUPIN: Whatever. My point is, I thought you’d choose Voldemort for your turn.
HARRY: Well, then, that makes letting me have a whack at the boggart really stupid, now, doesn’t it?
LUPIN: …
HARRY: …
LUPIN: Here, eat this chocolate. You know, you look a lot like your father. Except that you have J.K. Rowling’s eyes.
HARRY: Awww, thanks.
I laughed! I cried! I snorted pop up my nose! Now go read the rest.
Found via ***Dave who seems to be collecting these things lately.
UPDATE: OK, I just have to include one more bit that made me literally laught out loud and startle several office mates who thought I was actually engaged in serious work:
HERMIONE: If you want to kill Harry, you’ll have to kill us first!
HP FANS: OMGWTF THAT WAS RON’S LINE! YOU CHANGED THINGS FROM THE BOOK!
LOTR FANS: What are you, new?
Ow, my sides hurt now.
HAHA!! I loved the movie...but it was a sort of love-hate thing...some stuff was great...some stuff was inexplicable...and I am going to have to see it again. Soon. David Thewlis...I cannot imagine anyone else besides him as Lupin now. Kind of scary.