Kloves needs to be replaced!

Rating: Null/10 (11 June 2004)

So Columbus and Kloves were accused of being too faithful to the books for the first two movies. Cuaron and Kloves won't be getting that accusation this time round. Not having any respect for the book whatsoever, on the other hand... Or rather, for the characters. Granted, this is something that can only anger book fans, but when Hermione Granger is suddenly a superwoman and Ron Weasley is suddenly a scaredy-cat, beyound, as far as I can tell, the needs of the change of medium, one starts to suspect laziness. But most of this is their lines, i.e. Kloves. Cuaron actually does a pretty good with the directing. But Kloves has thrown in some horrible dialogue(mostly to Dumbledore) that his direction doesn't keep the audience from going, "Huh?" Scenes are put into place poorly(most jarring example probably being The Three Broomsticks scene), the plot rushes at fever-pace without trying to figure itself out, one desperately needed explanation that could have easily been arranged to fill all of two minutes of running time does not manifest. Unfortunately, Kloves wrote Goblet of Fire too. Please, please replace him before he butchers Order of the Pheonix!