Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

An empty round about, pushing itself around in a deserted play area….i don’t know why but this image always has eerie connotations for me, whenever I see/read it a sense of…of almost a suspending doom comes over me. Thus the fifth Harry Potter instalment begins, and I found it almost hauntingly sad, at times it was disturbing and several times through the film I felt a chill crawl over my body. Again the cast were brilliant, Bellatrix was the epitome of a crazy witch, I loved her menacing cackle!!, the actress playing Luna Lovegood was born to play the part, the likeness was scary!! And then there was Dolores Umbridge, now I’m all for a hint of pink in an outfit, but under all that pinkness and sweetness lay a shockingly disturbing interior….
However it wasn’t all doom and gloom, Fred and George’s leaving debut was pulled off excellently and there were, moments of light humour. However as was expected large chunks of the book were absent, thus causing the film to feel rushed, but I suppose all the main events were covered, so mustn’t grumble! Overall I think it’s the best HP film to date, however like my good friend here I agree that they should have extended it abit more, to include some of the side plots.

P.S. I think it’s almost compulsory that when you watch a HP film that you have moments of “hey that’s not in the book” or “that’s not right”, or maybe “it’s not like that in the book”. No matter how hard you try not to, when a scene is shown and you see it playing out in your mind, and then suddenly the film in you’re mind snags when something is quite not right in the film… you can’t help thinking the above thoughts…..*sigh*