D - for dumb humor - Wedding Crashers Reviews

I am simply let down everytime I get talked into going to an american made comedy. Who's rating these comedy movies... post pubescent boys and girls? I guess if you think bare breasted women, stupid cliches' and just plain dumb writing is funny... more power to you. I'll stick to the foreign comedies, until Hollywood can produce something more funny than this type of garbage.

Disappointing - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Reviews

This was a very good movie if you know absolutely nothing about the book. There were some crucial details that were left out that were said to come back in book seven. How are they going to incorporate these into the 7th movie??? They made a comedy out of a movie that was supposed to be dark. I am thoroughly disappointed. Where was J.K.R.?

Best book,worst movie, listen to jim dale instead - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Reviews

GET JIM DALE TO DIRECT THE NEXT ONE. im so bummed. some times you cant act well in a poorly directed and sceen written movie .I dont think ive ever seen such a blooddy mess of a book to movie. rowling should have put her foot down, as im sure she gets to review the finished product before its released. The movies are so popular because of the books not the other way around.If you want to sit back, relax and enjoy this book after reading it,LISTEN TO JIM DALE ON BOOKS ON TAPE in your car or at home hes the nuts. ROWLING PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE dont let them srew up one of the best written series of all time. when in dought throw it out. get a better crew to do the next one or youll lose some loyal fan over the almighty dollar (pound). J.K.ROWLING your books are like diamonds in the rough please please dont let the rest get cut by just any one think long term. i want to share these books and movies with my grand kids. prisoner was the better one so far, but the order was the best book (not movie) so far. thanks j.k.rowling for the books they have been a real pleasure to read.

Where was the story? - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Reviews

My most favorite book is now the worst movie of the series. The book was too long to be made into a 2.5 hour movie. Too many important events were left out. I would rather sit through a 10 hour movie, or four movies in installments than watch a poor, abbreviated product, as this movie is. The teenagers, who spoke distinctly as children, were impossible to understand in this movie. I suppose enunciating and speaking intelligibly isn't cool. The director shouldn't have let them get away with it. The movie relied too much on special effects. I got sick of seeing all the supernatural beings zip around, and Harry lying on the ground squinting his eyes and gritting his teeth in mental anguish. Where was the story? I certainly hope they do a better job on the next one.

They just keep getting better. - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Reviews

Trying to squeeze a 800 page book into 2 hours is no easy task, and yes things will be left out. However, with honest portrayls of characters that have become part of them, and visual effects that bring a world of imagination to life, plus staying very true to the story with out leaving anything major out, it was an outstanding film. I was not a fan from the beginning , I had not read a single book till after the third was released. I borrowed a copy from a friend, and was hooked. It has a way of enveloping our heart and mind into it and you feel as though you are there a partof it all. I am not going to pick the film apart, there are things that could have been left in, but that can be said for every movie ever made. I loved it for what it was, and look forward to the new book now more than ever!

Finally a potter installment with heart - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Reviews

Here was the challenge for Michael Goldenberg, screenwriter, and David Yates, director, for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: take a book that has 70,000 more words than the New Testament, is adored to obsession by an enormous, voracious fandom, and translate it into a 138-minute movie for a studio that sold nearly a billion dollars worth of tickets last time around. Right, no problem. I was convinced they couldn't do it, or that they couldn't do it well. But I was wrong. The moment Hedwig's theme fades out with the Warner Brother's logo, you know Order of the Phoenix has brought it, and darkly. Voldemort is regaining power; Cedric Diggory is dead; and Harry is back at Privet Drive, isolated from the very few people he loves. Dudley mocks Harry's dead parents, and is silenced by a Dementor attack. Harry fights off the soul-suckers only to return to home and find out he's been expelled from Hogwarts for using magic outside of school. And all that happens in the first ten minutes. Did I mention this movie is darker? Yates makes quick (yet smooth) work of getting Harry back with his adopted family (Sirius, the Weasleys, Hermione), and that is where this film really sets itself apart. Where Goblet was good on special effects and rapid plot, Phoenix captures the best part of JK Rowling's novels: the heart. When Harry finds Hermione and Ron at headquarters for The Order of the Phoenix (alone in a bedroom, by the way. What were you two doing in there? And why are the sheets on that bed all mussed up?) we know he's going to be okay; he's got the two best friends in the world. I really missed that in the other films. Dan Radcliffe has grown enormously as an actor. He's not just a cute little Harry Potter look-alike anymore. I believed everything he put out there: the intense fear, the turmoil, the confusion, the frustration, the love. It's obvious he has deep affection for the character he plays. The Radcliffe of Prisoner of Azkaban is not the same actor of Order of the Phoenix. His performance shocked me, actually. Emma Watson and Rupert Grint (as Hermione and Ron) were both better than ever. Emma Watson got Hermione just right, striking a perfect balance between studious know-it-all, crusader for the underprivileged, and Harry's most passionate care-taker. Hermione actually has the funniest scene in the movie. I want to give Michael Goldenberg a bear hug for bringing book! Ron! to the show. The last few movies have really gutted Ron's character, but he's back and genuine this time around. Not only are we spared scared! Ron! face, but we get the lovability, loyalty and aloofness that make Ron Weasley such a great character. Rupert Grint's comic-timing is perfect. Actually, maybe he has the funniest scene in the movie. If you were waiting for some of that sexual tension between these two to show up, you'll be pleased. Unlike the book, Hermione has more screen time and lines than Ron, but I can't blame the camera for loving Emma Watson's face. It's obvious that Warner Brothers struck gold with Radcliffe, Watson and Grint, not only because they've shaped up into quite a talented group of actors, and not only because they obviously have a commitment to their characters, but because they're good people. In interviews they talk about literature and learning foreign languages, about family and their deep affection for each other. I want to go on record right now as saying that there are six billion people in the world, and Warner Brothers picked the right one to play Luna Lovegood. Evanna Lynch was perfection. The adult leads were spectacular, as usual. Michael Gambon reined in his Dumbledore. I was actually cheering for him. Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy was deliciously malevolent. Emma Thompson as Trelawney was heart-breaking and hilarious. If there is anyone who can deliver a slithering taunt like Alan Rickman as Snape, I don't want to meet him. Helena Bonham Carter's Bellatrix Lestrange was shivery-creepy. Julie Walters and Mark Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, I wish you were my parents. And Imelda Staunton as Delores Umbridge? You'll hate her almost as much as you do in the book. There are, of course, loads of book scenes that were cut out. (Did you really expect to see the Weasley is Our King or S.P.E.W. storylines?) But unlike the last two movies, I was less distraught over what was left out, and more impressed with what was kept in. Mad props to David Yates for his vision in this movie. The tone was different, as was the cinematography. There was a bit of handheld camera work near the end that was fantastic. This was my favorite out of the five movies. It left me wanting more. Not like something was missing, but like I'd enjoyed it so much I didn't want it to end. It's the same way I felt about the book. And that's about the highest praise you could earn from me.

Could have been a 3 hour movie - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Reviews

I can understand why things are cut out to make a 2 hour movie. But really with the Harry Potter movies is about like the Lord of the Rings. Magical; and needs more time to get the content in the movie without being too fast paced. the acting was good and the graphics were great. But where was dobby the house elf. this is twice the lovable character was leftout. He is the one that gave Harry the gillyweed in GOF and told Harry about the room of requirements in this movie OOTP. I believe that the producer could have left more uncut and more to the facts of the book by adding extra time to produce the movie. the fans would hav gladly sit for another hour for less cuts on the movie. Of course Rowlings was there and approved it, I couldn't believe she did that and let the producer cut up her book like that. The Lord of the Rings were anywhere to 2 1/2 - 3 hours long and in different installments. Why not Harry Potter? Over all I did grade it a B+ it was good