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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2 Disc Special Edition) [2007]
from Warner Home Video
starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Ralph Fiennes, Robbie Coltrane

Features:

• PAL

Editorial Review:

While many movie franchises slide as they reach their later instalments, the Harry Potter films just keep getting better. The latest, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is easily the darkest of the series to date, and it's also one of the best. For while it could easily have been little more than a holding film to set up the big encounters to come in the last two instalments of the series, it's to the credit of British director David Yates that the end result is really very good.

It finds Harry coming under suspicion from his wizarding colleagues, who don't believe his claims that the evil Lord Voldermort has returned. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix thus finds its title character on the backfoot for much of its running time, with a select band who firmly believe his story, and very powerful figures who don't.

Where the movie of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix excels though is in its three trump cards. Number one is a far tighter script than we're used to with Potter films, which, combined with trump card number two--the aforementioned David Yates behind the camera--cuts much of the slavish loyalty to the text away in favour of a film with real momentum. The third, and best, card though is the casting of Imelda Staunton as Professor Dolores Umbridge, who simply flies away with every scene she's in. It's a superb performance, and the film is poorer whenever she's not on screen.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is not a film without a few problems, certainly: it's a fair criticism that not too much actually happens, and one or two bits feel superfluous. But it overrides its problems with ease, to emerge as a compelling, highly enjoyable family film, which will leave you salivating for the Christmas 2008 release of movie number six in the series. --Simon Brew

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Enough Dross to Ensure Success.
  Any writer of a film's 97th review, unless he's so confident in the drawing-appeal of his offering's title, that he thinks it shall be the first one to be read, should be confident, and in this case pleased, that his subject is known too well to the reader not to spare him the need to inflict on him the same trash that Warner's is still peddeling to viewers; for that, I'm grateful.
  Let me help you; if you think that what this film contains might appeal to you, then a U.K. 'bus journey should provide... more info

• another entertaing installment
  again another entertaining installment in the entertaining harry potter series.the three leads are really starting to mature in to good young actors

• A successful adaptation of the book
  I have read some very derogatory reviews of this film here, which were invariably hugely unfair, as they seem to be from people who cannot bear the thought of the books undergoing editing to make them into manageable films.
  The reason I am so impressed with this film in particular was that it makes those changes so effectively. I love the books, and of course if you want the true Harry Potter experience then you should read those rather than watch the films, but I am realistic enough to understand... more info

• Brill
  Hi i'm the daughter or Corene. I like this film. I think its really gd. Its one of my fave films. My dads fave is the 3rd one.!!
  U I would bi it if i was u. If you have little ones then i wouldn't let them watch it by there selths (especislly if it's the first time they have ever watch it). Bi Bi
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