Pros: Excellent cast, music, FX, sets, good script...
Cons: ... though a longer film_to allow more_plot elements /character development would have been nice!

Even while I was reading the book, I felt that Harry Potter: The Order of the Phoenix would have worked better as a film - and I was right! The previous film, Goblet of Fire was okay but really didn't do much for me. This one though was ...

Pros: Excellent acting, cinematography and writing
Cons: Tried to do too much

I'm not sure about my sanity. I went to see this latest chapter of the "Harry Potter" franchise at midnight along with one of the biggest late night movie audiences I've ever seen. I must confess that I have never read a single "Potter" novel but I ...

Pros: Radcliffe, Staunton, supporting cast, Yates's direction, story
Cons: Some slow spots; some will contend some characters appear too briefly

Between his fourth and fifth years at Hogwarts, Harry Potter certainly has not received any sort of a summer break. In Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) finds himself in the muggle world, with dementors chasing ...

Pros: Adaptation, screenwriting, actors, effects...
Cons: Pretty choppy, definitely an "installment" in a series...

I really didn't like the book H arry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix . Harry spends too much time sulking, alienating his friends, and author J.K. Rowling spends too much time on vignettes that alternately add ...

Pros: Great acting; wonderful special effects
Cons: A lot of underused characters; felt unfulfilling

I’ve finally figured it out. The Harry Potter movies are meant for kids. All this time I thought it was made for only me and me alone. To my surprise, this was not the case at all when I managed to catch a viewing of Harry Potter and the ...

Pros: Captures book's emotional tone; exciting visuals; solid performances (especially Radcliffe and Staunton); moving score
Cons: Some edits felt drastic; confusing final battle (with Harry's friends underused)

I'm not sure what I expected going into Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the film adaptation of the fifth book in the recently completed seven-book series by J.K. Rowling. I'm sure the fact that I waited to see the film until after I'd ...

Pros: Harry is back, and this film touches on most of the book.
Cons: The movie touches on so many things that it fails to fully develop them.

I am one of those adults who started off reading the Harry Potter books to his son, and then got caught up in them himself. Yes, I have read every book, and I have Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on reserve. I loved the fifth Harry Potter ...

Pros: visually enthralling, streamlined, many funny moments
Cons: ending could have been handled better, some characters aren't prominent enough

It's a grand summer for Harry Potter fans. In little more than a week, all the questions that have been percolating for as many as ten years will be answered with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Till then, we have Order of the ...

Pros: highly topical, tightly drawn, full of explosive energy
Cons: more dark than magical, runs long

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is (duh) the most grown-up Harry Potter film in the franchise (and will be till the next one comes out). What began as a sweet orphan's dream - of escaping that room under the stairs to fly away to a prep school ...

Pros: Excellent acting, some exciting moments, lots of time with familiar characters
Cons: Bland villain, middle installment syndrome

It’s Harry Potter time again! After eagerly awaiting the fifth movie in this highly popular series, I found myself simply too exhausted from studying to even stay awake for last night’s midnight showing, to which I already had tickets. Darn it! ...

Pros: Excellent book-to-movie interpretation, great story, great movie!
Cons: Some might find this 'too dark and depressing'

I am, once again, blown away by a Harry Potter movie. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was by far the toughest book to read in the series. I had so many questions and various amounts of confusion after reading the book. The ...

Pros: Returning characters continue to charm, Delores Umbridge couldn't be better cast
Cons: Very little about the actual Order of the Phoenix

After watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire two years ago, I could hardly wait for the next installment of this mega-movie franchise to see what happened next. Not having read any of the books before, I couldn’t help myself and bought ...

Pros: Improved acting, excellent casting, soundtrack, special effects, fairly close to book
Cons: The end was extremely rushed and almost ruined the entire movie

Most of my readers know how big of a Harry Potter fan I am -- I could talk HP for hours and not tire of it. That being said it was almost a given I'd go to the midnight showing (getting in line at 8:30 pm to ensure good seats) and review it on Epinions ...

Pros: pretty good besides the action scenes
Cons: the action scenes were the best part of the book!

As a pretty big Harry Potter fan, I was a tad disappointed by The Order of the Phoenix movie. But then again, I've never come close to enjoying one of the movies nearly as much as the books. Goblet of Fire was the worst movie, I think, and ...

Pros: Decent acting, good special fx
Cons: bad condensation of novel, some characters criminally underused

The Harry Potter movies have had an increasing problem of having to condense ever-larger books into a movie that still tells a coherent story. The previous movie, Goblet of Fire had the benefit of the book containing huge subplots that could ...