Order of the Phoenix

Rating: 6/10 (12 July 2007)

First off let me say I am a HUGE Harry Potter fan.
Yesterday I went and saw Order of the Phoenix at the Imax theater. I love the Imax, but I've never seen an actual movie on it, and I probably wont ever again. This is the shortest Harry Potter movie that has been made yet, but its the biggest book so far. No need to say that the movie fell way short of my expectations. I think they left out a lot of important things. I've read the book, but for people who haven't read the book and just choose the see the movie, I would think they would be confused as hell. I read that there was a new director for this movie. Well, he sucks. And you didn't get to see as much of Rupert as I personally would have liked <3. Umbridge was not portrayed as much of a b*tch is she is in the book, and she didn't look like what I pictured at all (toadface). The letter sent to Mrs. Dursley from Dumbledore was not in the film, which explained why Harry must go back to the Dursleys every summer. The Prophecy wasn't talked about that much between Dumbledore and Harry. The D.A.s fight with the death eaters at the Ministry of Magic was limited. Harry's deep depression about Sirius was left out. I don't think the point of Voldemort tricking Harry to going to the Ministry of Magic was fully made. And Qudditch was completely edited out. The Weasley twins departure from Hogwarts could have been a lot better. Kreacher was only seen once or twice in the movie. There is so much more, but I am choosing what to complain about, so finally, the battle between Voldemort and Dumbledore at the end was definitely not even half as good as the battle in the book. A plus, the kiss between Cho and Harry, that was pretty nice. I might go to the normal theater to see it, hopefully it will be better that way, because I don't like to repeatedly turn my head back and forth from one side of the screen to another while watching a film.