great movie, better book

Rating: 9/10 (25 July 2007)

the movie was the shortest yet the book was the longest. that means there's something missing. Luna and Umbridge are great. Kreacher should have been more involved and the missing scenes from the book should have been included, although it is impossible to include all of them, then at least some of them. as a movie, i thought it was terrific and the whole thing was great, but because i read the book, it was very disappointing and did not live up to the standards of the book. the story was overflowing with potential yet the movie did not live up to it because it wasn't long enough. I'm hoping that down the road, someone else will be able to re-do these movies and make them more accurate with the events in the book, even if they are each more than four hours long. I'm curious to see what they do with the next two movies and i hope that they can make them longer.