Jul 26 2007

Harry Potter and The Order of Phoenix Movie Review

Posted by karthiksn

Bellatrix Lestrange

Yeah I don’t know why but I simply love this picture. Maybe it’s her pose that makes the picture perfect.

So now coming to the movie, I have always loved reading all the books in the Harry Potter series but The Order of Phoenix was one of those books which I actually don’t include into my favourites since I found it quite boring. But there were nearly hundred or something pages that I had found quite interesting in the book; actually some of the scenes were quite thrilling. I always thought when I read the book that they will use the only good part from the book.

HP-OOTP Movie Poster

I am quite happy they did exactly the same thing. They used only the best parts from the book and made it into the movie. Unfortunately I reached only when Harry had reached 12 Grimauld Place since I had gone to watch 8 am morning show at Sathyam here which is the only timing for Harry Potter (I guess one will know why since Sivaji was released in two screens in Sathyam). Now since I had missed lots of fun stuff I can’t comment on that but still had the whole movie left after that. In the movie some scenes were shot excellently giving details exactly as in the book. But I have to agree with Harsh the scenes of the Great Fred and George Weasly making their grand escape could have been a lot better. There are certain moments in the movie were a non reader might feel left out and I guess that’s because of not using the whole book and it’s quite common now.

I normally watch Harry Potter now just to see how much did they deviate from the book and it seems they did a lot of that in this movie. Thought it was very close to the book there were many minor deviations too which can obviously be noticed by any reader.

Atlast I would say this was a very good effort. I mean this would be one with my other favourites like The Chamber of Secrets and Prisoner of Azkaban. I would say this will complete my top three favourite movies in the series. I guess this film deserves 3.5/5.

Other Websites: Download Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix to your iPod. Or watch it in DVD and DivX formats.

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