Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

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It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Harry Potter And The Order of The Phoenix is a follow up to the 2005 Harry Potter film Goblet Of Fire where Harry is been bullied by his cousin's gang and Harry saves Dudley(his cousin)from these deadly shadows. Of course Harry gets nightmares about Lord Voldermort and thinks that Voldermort is out for revenge again. While his dealing with Voldermort's comeback,the rest are still grieving for Cedric(Robert Pattinson) who dies in the goblet of fire by Voldermort and Harry keeps trying to warn everyone that Voldermort is back. There is also a new teacher called Dolores Umbridge (played by Imelda Staunton from Maleficent)and she has shown hatred towards Harry and doesn't want any of the students to use violence or deadly spells.Will anyone believe Harry that Voldermort has returned? Overall i really enjoyed this one too. The acting is good and I like the par where Harry is setting up a fight for Voldermort with Hermoine Granger(Emma Watson),Ron Weasley(Rupert Grint) and Co as Harry found a secret room to prepare themselves from Voldermort,the special effects is great and overall it is a fun film to watch. 8/10

This was way too long, the CGI wasn't that good, so many scenes that shouldn't be in the movie in my opinion, and the entire first half had no interesting or fresh and memorable scenes. What I think makes this movie still a watchable one is the chemistry, the interesting themes and the last 35 minutes.

Though undoubtedly a bit drawn out, the novel version of "Order of the Phoenix" does contain its share of epic moments. I thought that this movie version would be an improvement, as it would be able to separate the "wheat from the chaff", so to speak, and keep the action flowing. What actually happens, however, is that the movie never slows down enough to savor those great moments, instead pushing forward relentlessly from beginning to end.For a basic plot summary, "Phoenix" begins with Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) defending himself at the Ministry of Magic after using a Patronus Charm to defeat some Dementors near Privet Drive. Upon returning to Hogwarts, Harry discovers that the school is slowly being turned into a mouthpiece of Cornelius Fudge (Robert Hardy) with the appointment of Delores Umbridge (Imelda Staunton) as a central figure. Soon, Harry, Ron (Rupert Grint), & Hermoine (Emma Watson) get some first-hand experience dealing with the "politics of magic", so to speak.The film version of "Phoenix" is basically a class-A example of a movie not living up to the novel. It is just a little odd for this series considering that all the previous movies were very favorably toward their books' source materials. The trouble here is that director David Yates doesn't quite know when to "slow down" and savor the moment (or even what those right moments are).For example (spoilers ahead)...-Some very interesting material regarding why Harry must always stay with the Dursleys is completely excised. This was a key portion of the book that really ties up some loose story ends. -Also gone is a very touching "Weasley is our King" Quidditch angle from the book. Instead, Grint's Ron is given nothing to do in this one. -Umbridge is treated with a comical air instead of the malice she should personify. in fact, her first appearances in the Hogwarts halls are set to a sort of music video montage totally unbecoming of what her character should be. -The final climactic battle featuring Dumbledore (Micheal Gambon) and Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) carries none of the gravitas of the novel (or even lives up to the Potter/Voldemort scenes at the end of "Goblet of Fire). It just falls flat.One thing that the movie does get right, however, is spending a least a bit more time (though still far less than the book) rounding out the auxiliary cast. The Weasley Twins (James & Oliver Phelps), Ginny Weasley (Bonnie Wright), Neville Longbottom (Matthew Lewis), & Cho Chang (Katie Lueng) get more screen time than ever before, while newcomer Luna Lovegood (Evanna Lynch) is a great new addition to the cast.Thus, while "Order of the Phoenix" isn't a terrible movie by any means, it is the first of the Potter movies to significantly be worse than its source-material novel. Too many key moments are missing, while the ones that do show up aren't allowed to be savored like they should.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the first Harry Potter movie directed by David Yates. Some fans love Yates and his different style, but there are people who don't like him, myself included. Sure, he's the one responsible for my favourite half of the series, where Harry is growing up and everything is darker. But in the movies the characters aren't as deep and the darkness feels more like a colour scheme than a change in the story telling.Yates's style chooses action over the story - which makes no sense when considering what the novel was like. Order of the Phoenix had very little action, but it explored wonderfully, for example, Harry after seeing Voldemort returning and seeing Cedric Diggory being brutally murdered. In the movie you can see it bothers Harry, he is incredibly angry, but that's that. If you haven't read the book it only seems like Harry is having his puberty and therefore a bit moody, even if you could claim he has a case of PTSD. There are many emotional scenes in the novel that weren't included in the movie. They were completely forgotten or replaced by something really, really weird, apart from few that were important to the plot - they saved the scenes that were important when looking at this one movie, but ignored the story as a whole, and they seemed to figure character development was not that important. Harry Potter series is not seven separate stories it's one story in seven parts. At this point it's clear the filmmakers didn't care about the story as much as making the movies and making fans watch them and just get through the whole series. But it's lovely to see the film allowing few characters develop properly: like Neville during the DA. They tried to fake Ginny developing as well by only showing us that she is indeed amazing with spells. Still the filmmakers have forgotten to give her any sort of personality. I love her in the books but in movies she's just an empty husk - skillful of course, but she's not as interesting as in the books. ' Order of Phoenix is over-simplified and is trying to force a story into a film form in the easiest way possible. Yes, sure, they didn't have so much time to focus on the stories individually considering the stars were growing up but still, this is ridiculous.