Good movie, not the best...

Rating: 8/10 (18 August 2007)

I liked the movie, but as expected, LOTS were left out. The plot was choppy at times and the thing that got me was that it was the shortest of the 5 so far...yet the longest book!! I can say I'm not at all happy w/the director of this movie...However, the new characters introduced were portrayed very well! Umbridge was awesome, and I hated her even more now that I saw her in the movie! LOL. Luna Lovegood was portrayed very nicely...as being the weirdo that she was portrayed to be in the book. Although she gave you the sense of being sweet and loving. I loved her character. I wish we could have seen more of Tonks!! It was nice to finally meet her character too...but we didn't get to see much of her! In fact, they only had 2 segments of the order in the whole movie! Um, what's the title of the movie again?? LOL. My favorite character, however, was Bellatrix Lestrange. Even though you see her for a short time, her character was AWESOME! She's everything I expected her to be...Mean, horrible, nasty, etc. For some reason, I pictured her totally differently in the book, but in the movie, it was nice to put a face to a name. Helena Bonham Carter is PERFECT for that role! Overall, a good movie, but left out WAY too much, which just left the plot choppy and unorganized at times...