Ummmm . . . no! Bad director!

Rating: 1/10 (30 December 2007)

Jeez. I was supremely disappointed with this film. Did anyone else walk out of the theatre going, "Where was Peeves?" Granted, they didn't include the poltergeist in any of the previous films, but in the previous books, his role is minimal at best. In Order of the Phoenix, he is a major player against the ministry's controlling influence at Hogwarts: Umbridge. Now, I liked the fight in the Department of Mysteries, don't get me wrong. Maybe some of the people who liked this film have lower standards than myself, but I am of the most sincere opinion that if you're going to make a book into a movie, that you should include every single minuscule detail. Turn the book into a movie, so to speak, instead of merely "adapting" the book like so many do. Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix disappointed me beyond anything I could have foreseen.
I'm sorry, but if the sixth and seventh movies are going to be anything like the third through the fifth, then maybe they shouldn't make the movies at all.