Good Graphics, Bad Content

Rating: 7/10 (18 November 2005)

Last night I went to go and see the midnight showing of the latest installment of the Harry Potter film series. I must say the graphics and special effects were most impressive, and the details were magnificent. But this movie does NOT do the book justice, anyone who is a true fan of the books could tell you that. The sheer volume of information that was left out of this movie almost made me sick. They cut out several highly important characters from the book, such as Winky the house-elf, Ludo Bagman, The Dursleys, and Molly and Percy Weasly, but yet they had time to add in nonsense scenes that never occurred in the book. One of the greatest blows was that they did not even show the quidditch world cup being played! The merely introduced it and then switched the next scene. The rapid switching of the scenes was to become commonplace throughout the movie, and I feel that if I was not already overly familiar with he books that I would not be able to understand it. If the studio would have made it into two movies and not tried to cram the 600+ page book, it would have been one of the most stunning movies of this year. but as it stands, it is a disappointment to the book, and to Harry Potter fans everywhere.