Choice of content

Rating: Null/10 (13 January 2006)

It goes without saying that the movie's details will be minimal compared to the book, unless the movie were to be 6 hours long. But why the screenwriter, and especially the director chose to eliminate so much of Rita Skeeter, Sirius Black and the whole of the Privet Drive sequences in favour of calculated and unsuccessful pseudo-ominous close-ups meant to instill fear (they did NOT), a huge dragon-flying sequence in the Triward tournament, and way too much footage of the dance (BORING) is a question I beg to ask them. And what is with Dumbledore?!?!! First, he looked totally manic and not at all in character. A man of his power and intelligence would not be running around in a tail-spin like a frantic house-frau in a very ill-fitting blue dress! What were they thinking?! I hope for much, much better in Order of the Phoenix.