Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Widescreen)

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Product Details

Format : NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0085391196754
Product Group : DVD
Release Date : 2007-12-11
Studio : Warner
UPC : 085391196754

ASIN : B000WOQKEE

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Customer Reviews

Longest Book but Shortest Film (2008-01-27)

Longest Book but Shortest Film, or How To Turn a 766 page Phoenix into a 128 minute Turkey.Yes, the film, including credits, actually runs 138 minutes. But the book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is 766 wonderful pages long, from perhaps the best, certainly the most popular writer to bridge the gap between children's writing and adult writing, J.K. Rowling, A pity that the same cannot be said for the poor wretch Michael Goldenberg who took this wonderful book, cut out almost all the supporting characterisation, and turned in a script which concentrates exclusively on Harry Potter in the least satisfying of the films so far. Where was Steve Cloves, who did such a fine job with the first four screenplays? One wonders why J.K. Rowling let this script pass. Perhaps she gave up the right of script approval. Perhaps she no longer cares, now that the series of books is finished, and she is wealthier than the Queen. Brilliant, flashing, but hokey special effects dazzle the viewer, but waste so much of the film's running time, that all the supporting characters get short shrift. Hagrid is almost absent. The little brat Malfoy has almost disappeared. Hogwarts itself doesn't look the same as it has in most previous films. Even the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix don't live up to the book: the screaming portrait is gone, and Kreatcher, the Black house elf gets so little screen time he might as well not be there. Tonks has about two lines. The Ministry of Magic scenes which feature so prominently in the book are minimal in the film. The whole film has also been printed so dark that one needs to turn up the brightness control to see any of the details of the sets. Maybe Warners couldn't afford to build sets with enough detail to be seen with proper lighting. Maybe Warners doesn't care any more, as long as the money keeps rolling in. Director David Yates did the best he could with a sorry travesty of a screenplay, but even he couldn't pull this one out of a hat. One hopes for better results with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince which he is directing for release later this year, 2008. Good news though, Steve Cloves has written the screenplay.Too bad that Chris Columbus has bowed out of the production. Too bad that Director of Photography Roger Pratt, who so brilliantly photographed the second and fourth films didn't do this one. The bottom line: rent this one, don't waste your money buying it. Read the book, if you haven't already.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the best of the series!! (2008-01-07)

Harry Potter is faced with a dilemma. Voldermoort wants to control his mind and sets events in motion to undermine Hogwarts and to leave Harry Potter and his friends vulnerable. We see a different side to Snape and that explains why he is playing both sides. Only in the seventh book, do we learn exactly who Snape really is and that comes as a surprise. The movie focuses on a prophecy that spells the end of Voldermoort once and for all- but that's another story. Harry Potter and his friends are forced to learn magic on their own when Umbridge assumes control of Hogwarts and I enjoyed seeing her get what is coming in the forbidden forest.The Order of the Phoenix is a huge improvement over the third film- which is my least favorite in the movie in the series.

A rush,rush,disappointment (2008-01-02)

What a disappointment!From the beginning one cannot miss the fact that this is a rush job.The glossing over of vital facts,the leaving out of others and the almost complete lack of the characters' motives has taken the heart out of this sad attempt to reproduce a wonderful book onto film.What an awful waste of both Rowling's and the cast's talent.For Heaven's sake,get Chris Columbus to direct the next two movies. Helene Snider

This one comes and goes! (2007-12-19)

Well, it seems that Harry Potter is now only a money-pumping machine! It has lost its style and its need to create long movies based on long books. Like you all know, this installement is the shortest, based on the longest book... That tells a lot. The fact that producers also change the director after only one movie also tells how Harry Potter has lost its soul.I do not read the books, I don't care about them, but when I watched this movie, I felt it was missing something. It was empty, like a cake made entirely of icing... but no cake. Icing is good, but you need cake because you get tired of icing. This movie was 100% icing! I'm not kidding. I feel like this Harry Potter is completely irrelevant, it has no storyline at all and you fell like after the movie, you are at the same point as you were before, only with an angrier Harry who is about to pop and kill someone or start taking drugs!!Lots of beautiful CGI of course and cheap and short apperances by characters who look like they should be more important, like Malfoy who appears to only be in 2 scenes and countless others who only get screentime to remind you that the actor still plays the character... kind of like Eugene Levy in the "American Pie presents ..."Now I heared that David Yates is directing the 6th Potter movie, fingers crossed for it been longer and more interesting than cheap poppups of Voldemort and Harry freaking-out for 2 hours!Like it started with the Goblet of Fire, there are two DVD editions, the one you can rent, with no bonus features at all and the 2-discs special edition complete with bonus features, only available to buy for $30Of course, any fan of Harry Potter will get this one anyway so what can I tell you? Buy it, but get the 2-discs edition!

Voldemort's back and you're going to be in trouble (2007-12-16)

Yep Mr. Little has returned and the minister of magic (Robert Hardy) refuses to believe this. Of course everyone sides with the minister against Harry and his closest friends. Dudley (Harry Melling) practically gets sucked to death and the Dursley's (Fiona Shaw and Richard Griffiths) get a new flat screen T.V.The story plods along and leaves out key information revealed in the book. Every character stares at their feet and counts from one to ten before making their calculated statements. The film carries the story forward but does little to contribute other than a prophecy which takes all of five minutes.I do have to say that there was one good exception Helena Bonham Carter made a believable Bellatrix Lestrange the crazed dispatcher of Neville's parents.In place of story and acting we have lots of CGI filler. The graphics are par with today's technology with the exception of the department of mysteries; that location looked so phony that you would think you were watching Saturday morning cartoons.

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