What people don't get when they try and recreate a very potter musical with other films is that the purpose of AVPM wasn't solely to make fun of the harry potter films. I see other parady musicals, and whilst I don't want to suggest that people aren't putting a lot of time and effort into these, they seem to just focus on parody. But the absolute joy with AVPM is that whilst you get these incredibly stupid gags that take the piss on Harry Potter, like Quirell and Voldy back to back in this huge cloak and Dumbledore putting all the good guys in gryffindor etc. - and the whole thing is just so silly I'm amazed it's held up this long - but you also get these incredible moments of heart where it almost forgets that it's a harry potter parody musical and starts to become its own thing entirely. Like for the whole series they wrote real, incredible love songs and villain songs and flipping power ballads and there are so many moments where you're on the brink of tears. Because they really could have just made a musical where they made fun of Harry Potter in a way that didn't matter and so many of those scenes could have just been another joke but I think the fact that they didn't is what seperates Starkid from so many other parody musicals because like yeah Harry Potter is stupid and Disney movies have a lot of stupid stuff in them and yes bug puppet shows are completely ridiculous but they are so totally committed to being these proper, well constructed pieces of theatre that sometimes when I'm listening to everything ends I forget it comes right after a gag about Lily and James Potter getting divorced in Heaven and right before a load of gags about the sorting hat and a scarf of sexual preference hooking up.
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