We seem to have lost our Dumbledore.

Rating: 5/10 (30 December 2005)

How very sad to have lost our dear Dumbledore. It was sad enough to have lost Richard Harris, but now I fear Michael Gambon has lost the spirit of Dumbledore, when one was hoping he would make the role his--a difficult and ambitious task, indeed. Does the fault lie with Gambon or with the director of the film. Regardless, let us hope they salvage the true nature of Dumbledore in future installments. Throughout the books, Dumbledore remains unflappable, a constant, always calm and rational; these qualities also make him safe, and even almost "god-like." What happened in the fourth movie? Dumbledore physically grabs and shakes Harry just after his name is spit out of the goblet of fire. This is not the Dumbledore of the novels. One hopes the true character will emerge for the fifth movie.