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Starring:
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Richard Griffiths, Jason Isaacs, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, Maggie Smith, Imelda Staunton, David Thewlis, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters, Mark Williams, Tom Felton, Bonnie Wright, Warwick Davis, Natalia Tena, James Phelps, Chris Rankin, Matthew Lewis, Oliver Phelps, Geraldine Somerville, Tony Maudsley, Jessica Stevenson, George Harris, Harry Melling, Alfie Enoch, Adrian Rawlins, David Bradley, James Walters, Robert Hardy, Richard Leaf, Sian Thomas, William Melling
Directed By:
David Yates, David Yates
Written By:
Michael Goldenberg, J.K. Rowling
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
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Movie Review by Zara 
July 12th, 2007
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Briefly...
I tried to read the first book in this series and ended up having to choke it down like a bad piece of some overcooked vegetable. The first couple of movies were entertaining diversions. The third was probably my favorite, directed by the man who made Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN, dark and sexy and the introduction to Gary Oldman as whatever the name of his character is.
But frankly, I don't understand the appeal of the books. I don't get why there are adults who go nuts over this crap. To each their own and all that jazz, but I don't get it.
The movie has some really great special effects. Great. Whoopie. So does every other movie that's been released this summer. That doesn't automatically make it entertaining. (And for the record, the stars that I'm giving this movie are for the effects and for the minimal screen time that Oldman and Alan Rickman get - especially when we find out that Rickman was a goth boy who was tortured in high school by Harry Potter's dad.)
Other than the special effects, I could give a sh*t about any of these people. I was somewhat interested in Ron and Hermione (sp?) when they were introduced but there is very little involving them in this movie. It's just another SPIDER-EMO where Harry Potter tries to teach the other kids some magic and gets all emotional and feels bad about feeling angry all the time.
*Yawn*
If you're not a fan of the books, I can't honestly get behind this movie and tell you to spend money to see it. TRANSFORMERS is far more entertaining for the special effect aspect. Go see that instead.
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 | Alfred
Jul 15, 2007 5:01 PM
also wrote a review of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 
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| I agree that Harry Potter 3 was the best movie (and book) of the Series. I loved HP5, but mostly because I love the books. My daughter loved it, but then she's 6. These books are so full of interesting characters and details, I think its very difficult to translate that into a movie. |
 | Norman
Jul 14, 2007 8:31 AM
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| Obviously, Zara, you're an old head! Where is the inner child in you? Aren't you a happy person? Perhaps a shrink can help you... as a last resort... because you are already almost a lost cause. Are you even worth saving? |
 | Josh
Jul 15, 2007 2:30 AM
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| WHAT!! I just saw this movie and it is by far the best in the movie series. I swear you seriously have nothing good to say about anything do you? |
| Eric
Jul 16, 2007 2:09 PM
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| You hit it dead on "gets all emotional and feels bad about feeling angry all the time." The I'm an angry emotional teen crap completely ruined the movie for me. I felt Harry was a pretty weak character through the entire movie. I'll give the movie 2 1/2 stars tops. Thats only because I tend to enjoy the potter movies. |
| legendzkillar
Aug 1, 2007 1:10 PM
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| I don't understand what is it that people liked about this movie. I have watched every single Harry Potter movie, and so far I only like the first three. The next movies, I thought it got a little repetitive because it's always Voldemort trying to kill Harry but failing and somehow disappearing only to return in the next movie. In Order Of Phoenix, nothing barely happened yet all these ignorant Harry Potter book fans thinks it's the best movie of the summer. Maybe the book was great, but certainly not this movie. I think Transformers was a better movie than Order Of Phoenix. Even so the critics gave Transformers a bad review because they wanted to see more fighting between Megatron and Optimus Prime, or they couldn't connect to the characters. Well, I say screw them! Also what is it that the ignorant Potter lovers loved about this film, because I would love to know. |
| Bobbo
Aug 6, 2007 7:55 PM
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| You are a fool. Thanks for fouling up the google vote. |
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