Good movie, bad interpretation!

Rating: 5/10 (20 November 2005)

I along with some friends were really stoked about this movie coming out. We reserved tickets almost 2 weeks ahead of time for the opening weekend and choose the best theater in St. Louis we could to see it. This was a monumental book of the series and had a number of subtle plot threads and twists all the way throughout. A lot of these threads were snipped to keep the movie from running 3+ hours but so much was cut it was almost as if I were seeing a different story from the book.
The movie itself was good. The CG, the actors, and the images all were fantastic. But the interpretation from the book was horrendous, not only was critical points snipped but a lot of the things that I looked forward to in the movie (like the veela dancing during the world cup) were simply ignored. Along with the dursleys and all the new things that harry finds out in the beginning. I feel that I could have definitely see this on rental and gotten much more for my dollar.