I thought POA was bad, this one stinks.

Rating: 1/10 (19 November 2005)

I was unhappy with movie III. I am aghast at this movie. Where to start? The beginning is usually a good place. Choppy. This movie was even choppier than the first one. It starts appropriately with the dream (of course the dream is not accurate to the book), but Harry is already at the Burrow. I guess there wasn't enough money in the budget to pay for Molly, Bill, or Charlie since none of them are in the film. Same goes for a little Quidditch, there isn't any. How can there be a Quidditch World Cup and no Quidditch? Ludo Bagman, where is he? Bagman is essential to the twins money sub plot. Money for the twins, how are they supposed to leave school toward the end of the next movie with no money (There was no mention of a monetary prize for the winner of the tournament)? How is Harry supposed to get any information any more, Sirius kept Hedwig? Then again Sirius must not be too important since they couldn't even do the fireplace scene appropriately and didn't have him, not even as a large, black dog at the end of the film. Then again Harry never went to the hospital. Fudge and Dumbledore do not have a parting of ways. I just wonder if Steven Kloves even bothered to read book 5 or discuss it with J.K. Rowling before butchering the screenplay for this movie. I just can't see how there can be an Order of the Phoenix that makes any sense when all of the set up was cut from the fourth movie. I know they can't have everything in the book in the movie but the overall story arc has to be maintained. I wonder what J.K. Rowling truly thinks of this film. I know two things for sure, I want Chris Columbus back directing 6 and 7 and I want Peter O'Toole for Dumbledore.