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