Not the best movie I've seen.

Rating: 5/10 (15 July 2007)

(Slight book spoilers)
Reading the book, which is my favourite of the series so far, I looked forward to the movie. The way Mrs Black's face would be portrayed when she screamed, how Neville's parents would act, the Sorting Hat's tune, Harry's jealousy of the prefect badge, Ron's performance on the pitch...
But then when I watched it none of it was there. I could not believe how much stuff they missed out. It was all of the interesting details that made the book so great and the movie missed out a lot. I know it would have made the movie too long but I was greatly disappointed. The little details they missed out too, like the tone of voice, Tonk's hair, the depression from what happened with Arthur - which they could have easily done wasn't there and the personalities of the characters were lost.
The film was OK. The acting was good, the things they DID actually put in were great too. I am just unhappy about how much they decided to leave out.
I went to see this movie with some friends who had not read the book and they did not understand what was going on especially because the film jumped from scene to scene, it was not smooth and it did not work well and because the film did not explain itself well and you would have had to have read the book to get it.
So I didn't enjoy the movie as much as I would have liked to but I wouldn't say that you should definitely not watch it ever because it was completely and utterly awful and does not deserve to be in cinemas because that is not true and others might enjoy it more than I did so you should judge it for yourself.