Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix reviews & ratings
Filed under: Film News, News | By: Mark
Posted on: July 11, 2007 | 26 Comments
The all new film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the 5th book in the Harry Potter series of books by J. K. Rowling and this book is about Harry Potters 5th year at Hogwarts, the new movie was announced by Warner Brothers with the same name as the book and would be released in Cinemas on 13th July 2007 in the US and a set date for the 12th July in the UK, but changes have been made and was later moved to the 11th July in the US for some apparent reason. The movie is about Harry Potter having an agitating summer and not only is he bracing himself for the catastrophe that is sure to accompany Voldemort’s return he is also stuck in Privet Drive for a month. Potter has little contact from the wizardry world that he is used too.
Meanwhile Harry and his cousin Dudley come up against attacks by the Dementors in Little Whinging and Harry as usual fends them off with a Patronus Charm, we will not go too much into the amazing Happy Potter movie because it will spoil it, but trust us it is amazing. Harry Potter is now older and wiser and more of a man than the first movie. We have seen many ratings and we would like to give you the best 3 ratings on the net from very good movie resources.
First up is Slash Film they have given this movie a whopping 8 out of 10, second is Rotten Tomatoes who have given Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 2 lots of ratings which are critics rating of 77% and users rating of 89%, third is imdb.com who have given this amazing movie 7.9/10 with 2,748 votes.
Are you looking forward to seeing Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie? And do you think it is going to be better than the other four? Let the voting and comments begin. More pictures below -
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This movie was by far the best out of the entire Potter set. I really enjoyed the last hour where it included all battle scenes and of course Fred and George! This movie was outstanding. My friends and I saw the midnight showing and are going again this week, I encourage you all to see it! It is really worth it.
THe movie was nothing of what I expected. I believe it could have been a whole lot better. It surely did not meet my expectations. Many details were left out and information was changed if compared to the book. I know that usually movies are different tan the book but only slightly, unlike in this movie. It appears to me that not a lot of effort was put into this movie. Scenes that should have been in the movie were not there. The movie was very compressed not actually showing all of the actual details of the book. I walked out of the theatre quite disappointed.
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I am a very hard core Harry Potter fan, and for the last four movies, i have completely supported the decisions of the directors and writers. However, in this film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, I believe that everything to do with the book, characters, events-everything was butchered. This David Yates, I do wonder how that man is able to put Director on his resume. This film was as though Mr. Yates didn’t like what occured in the previous films, so he decide to tweek things, well a lot, and it was not for the good of the movies. Someone needs to tell Mr. Yates that if you do not like something that has happened in the past, YOU CANNOT CHANGE IT!!! This movie was a sorry excuse for a Harry Potter Sequel. It is like one of the writers just woke up one day and decided that he was going to write a movie called Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and there was no book ever written before. Sorry writers and directors but you still can’t do that. The only good thing in this book was that they picked a very good person to play Bellatrix Lestrange. Well if you don’t believe me, just go and see it yourselves.
I really have to agree with Angela. There was too much change. Though the special effects were awesome and definitely deserve a great round of applause, it was too different from the book. A bit too different, and with the major differences came major disappointments for me. The thing that tipped me over the edge was that Snape’s Worst Memory wasn’t as great as I had expected. Overall, I believe that though it was a give in that the movie would be a bit different from the book (I mean, come on! The book is over 800 pages long, so it was obvious that somethings needed to change) David Yates took his changes a bit too far and made them a bit too drastic. I have a lot of respect for Yates, because I must admit that it was well directed… I just wanted it to be closer to the book. If I had not read the books, I think I would’ve enjoyed it a lot more.
BUT BELLATRIX WAS ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL!!!
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was awesome. Although I did wish they put in more parts such as when Harry, Hermione, and the Weasleys got to St. Mungo’s to see Mr. Weasley and run into Lockhart and Neville’s parents. I also wish they would have shown more rooms in the Department of Mysteries. And Snape’s memory could have been more like the book. When I walked out of the theater I was really disappointed at all of the change, but then after a while I started to think that besides all of the change I really liked it. I think I would have liked it alot more if I didn’t read the books. But yes now that I think about it, it was one of my favorite HP movies.
Order of the Phoenix was incredibly boring. I cannot imagine what all the hype is about. Some of the special effects were cool, but the “flashbacks” were difficult to interpret. I haven’t yet read the book, which hopefully will shed some light on the plot and premise of this pathetic movie.
The cinematography was really good and I enjoyed the shots of London and the English countryside.
i liked the movie a lot.But there were points in the movie that wern’t explained good. And the director cut way to much out that was important.
I am a huge Harry Potter fan. Through all out the past four movies I loved them. I have read and purchased all six books. Unfortunately, I feel this was not the best Harry Potter movie. I still enjoyed it but it definately could use some more scenes and more details. We all know there is a bit of romance between Harry/Cho, Hermione/Ron. We saw little romance between Harry/Cho and a spit of romance between Hermione/Ron. Only the Grawp scene showed little care for Hermione from Ron. There were many changes in scenes, the cast, and what the cast did in the movie. Example. In the book, the D.A. was given away by Cho’s friend Marrieta, but in the movie it was Cho her self who told. I recomend this movie but don’t expect a lot. I still continue to be a Harry Potter fan. I am just disappointed in this movie.
havent yet seen the movie… Going to see it tonight.. Ill give u my thoughts later.. ps.. HUGE HP fan.. I read HP and the half blood prince book in about 4 hours… Very stoked to see the movie.. But ive been hearin they left out a crap ton of scenes and important parts of the book.. hope to be pleased when i get outta the theater….
I really enjoyed this movie! The special effects were awesome and (as always) the acting was great! I, too, have read ALL of the books and am a huge Harry Potter fan, but I do not see anything wrong with the way they directed the movie. I guess that is because I am not naive enough to actually believe that every detail from a book can be represented in the movie. The earlier movies were closer to the books only because those books were a lot shorter, and more details could fit into a two and a half hour movie. As these books got longer, of course the movies were going to have pieces missing. That was to be expected–unless you would like to sit through an 8 hour long movie, and then you all would cry and complain about how it was TOO long. By the way, people (like Pam above) should not write reviews until they read the book first; then you can feel free to comment on if things made sense, and if it was boring or not. I loved the movie and can’t wait for the next one!