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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: RADCLIFFE,DANIEL
EAN: 0012569593251
Format: Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 11, 2007
Running Time: 139 minutes
Sales Rank: 432
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: July 11, 2007
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Genre: Feature Film Family
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 11-DEC-2007
Media Type: DVD
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Alas! The fifth Harry Potter film has arrived. The time is long past that this can be considered a simple 'children's' series--though children and adults alike will enjoy it immensely. Starting off from the dark and tragic ending of the fourth film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix begins in a somber and angst-filled tone that carries through the entire 138 minutes (the shortest of any HP movie despite being adapted from the longest book). Hopes of winning the Quidditch Cup have been replaced by woes like government corruption, distorted media spin, and the casualties of war. As the themes have matured, so have the primary characters' acting abilities. Ron (Rupert Grint), Hermione (Emma Watson), and especially Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) are more convincing than ever--in roles that are more demanding.
Harry is deeply traumatized from having witnessed Cedric Diggory's murder, but he will soon find that this was just another chapter in the continuing loss he will endure. Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) has returned and, in an attempt to conceal this catastrophe from the wizarding public, the Ministry of Magic has teamed up with the wizard newspaper The Daily Prophet to smear young Potter and wise Dumbledore (Michael Gambon)--seemingly the only two people in the public eye who believe the Dark Lord has returned. With no one else to stand against the wicked Death Eaters, the Hogwarts headmaster is forced to revive his secret anti-Voldemort society, the Order of the Phoenix. This welcomes back characters like Mad-Eye Moody (Brendan Gleeson), kind Remus Lupin (David Thewlis), fatherly Sirius Black (Gary Oldman), and insidious Severus Snape (Alan Rickman), and introduces a short list of intriguing new faces. In the meantime, a semi-psychotic bureaucrat from the Ministry (brilliantly portrayed by Imelda Staunton) has seized power at Hogwarts, and Harry is forced to form a secret society of his own--lest the other young wizards at his school be left ill-equipped to defend themselves in the looming war between good and evil. In addition, Harry is filled with an inexplicable rage that only his Godfather Sirius seems to be able to understand.
This film, though not as frightening as its predecessor, earns its PG-13 rating mostly because of the ever-darkening tone. As always, the loyal fans of J.K. Rowling's books will suffer huge cuts from the original plot and character developments, but make no mistake: this is a good movie. --Jordan Thompson
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - A Turn of Deception And Corruption
Very quickly, I loved Part 1. I feel 2 followed 1 as well as could have been expected. I didn't much care for Part 3. I felt 4 ("Goblet of Fire") was a major rebound. While earlier Harry Potter books and movies focused on friends, loyalty, magic, and Harry Potter's conflict with Lord Voldemort, this 5th movie seems to focus on corruption as well as deception. While this could have been a great movie, it is dragged down significantly by the utterly repulsive and annoying Umbridge. Harry (still underage) ... Read More
Rating:  - potter finale
The final chapter of the Harry Potter movies was delightful, imaginative, adventurous and magical. More importantly it left us feeling satisfied with a great and proper ending. While Harry Potter was growing and getting older, his films continued to give us the proper enjoyment we were craving since the first movie. Over the years, we learned more about the story and the movie creators never failed to give each and every movie the right amount of detail, and they gave us the ability to give us more juicy ... Read More
Rating: - almost as good as the book
Like Stardust (Widescreen Edition), I thought this movie captured the book almost better than the book itself did. I've read a lot of reviews complaining about the missing parts, but heck, that's what I've got the book for--if I want to read all the little details, I'll read the book. I view the movies as more of a companion to the books than a substitute for them, so I'm expecting things to be left out.
The tone was suitably darker, more serious, and the actors are all well suited for their roles ... Read More
Rating: - Harry Potter #5
Loved Order of the Phoenix.
The film is the closest to the book version yet.
Rating: - better edited than the book
After HP3, the best of the movies. Weak special features, though, total throw-aways. That's normal for the HP dvds, though, in my opinion. Condenses the book in a way J.K. Rowling's editors should have, though there are a few things from the book it kind of misses in having to hurry on (the revolt period against Umbridge, some 500 pages into the book, was the best part in the book and is pretty truncated here). Ron was less annoying than usual, too. Hermione is still hamming it up a bit too much, but not as bad ... Read More
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