What happened?????

Rating: 6/10 (22 November 2005)

I have to say first of all that I am a die-hard fan of the books, I own them all (as well as all the movies on DVD). I started out watching the movies and then began reading the books after I saw Prisoner of Azkaban. I don't know if it is because this is the first time I have ever seen a movie after I have read the book or not but I was truly disappointed in the film. I keep reading about how everyone is so impressed with the screenplay and adaptation of the book and I think they are totally wrong. I know that everything is totally different in the story from this book on but the movie and the book took totally opposite directions. There was no character development, the film focused solely on the Tri-Wizard tournament and the return of Voldemort. Not that these things aren't important but they don't matter if they are the only things happening in the movie. We should have been told about Barty's son and his whole story when he was captured. As well as dozens of other sub plots that were just ripped out of the story. What about the Quidditch World Cup? And Winkey the house elf? And Neville didn't give Harry the gilly-weed, Dobby did. This movie left so much to be desired. I hope that Order of the Phoenix is done better or they get a different director or screen writer. If anyone out there agrees with me please let me know because I feel like I am the only one that feels this way.