To fast, but still great

Rating: 8/10 (11 July 2007)

CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS:
I just went to a midnight showing last night of HP5. It was shorter that most of the movies, but as a book the longest in the series. It was a VERY fast over view of the book. Some of the changes were fine with me, like when Luna describes the Thestrals, instead of Hagrid describing them in class. It went a lot faster and you still learned the information that was needed. I loved the scene where Fred and George do the fire works and leave the school. Kinda missed the swamp though... The only thing that I was disappointed in was the death of Sirius. In the book, I was almost in tears at the end. The death scene itself was not to bad, but afterward when they are talking about Sirius (like when Harry discovers the two way mirror)I was all teary eyed. They really didn't talk much about him after he died in the movie, and I didn't get upset at all. If it was a half hour longer, I think it would have been excellent, but it is still my favorite movie in the series... so far....