so who has seen Harry Potter?

I agree with movie critic Mary and my family did see the movie but it was a real expensive outing for 5 of us From now on i will wait for the DVD and then save myself a boatful of money

By Mary F. Pols
It's not as if "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" is the spinach on our plates and the only thing standing between us and dessert, aka, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." However, it does feel rather like the rice: obligatory, filling at two plus hours and not all that exciting.

The movie itself is less to blame than the timing. If this were the sixth movie, coming out just ten days before the seventh book arrived in bookstores, it would serve as a perfect catching up tool, priming us for the finale of J.K. Rowling's wizards and witches saga. But as the fifth it has the inevitable air of a distraction, of something sent either too early or too late to a party.

Our hero, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) is well into adolescence, and even gets kissed for the first time in this film. As he describes the event, it's a bit "wet," which fits with the rest of "Phoenix's" unrelentingly gloomy plot. We have life sucking Dementors and the wizarding world's refusal to accept Harry's and Dumbledore's (Michael Gambon) word for it that Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) is back. Then Hogwart's, which was always Harry's refuge, is invaded by the Ministry of Magic's most meddlesome minion, Dolores Umbridge (Imelda Staunton), who immediately puts an end to all fun, including Quidditch.

Umbridge may be only a fill-in villain, a one-off, but as Staunton, an Oscar nominee in 2005 for "Vera Drake," plays her, she's the most memorable character in the movie (Evanna Lynch, who plays

My friend and I are going this sunday! I can't wait

Hello jdpartosa!
I watched the movie, and I was expecting so much from it that I just disappointed myself, hope you don't feel like this too. I know it's impossible to get everything exactly how it's in the book, but I think it could be better. Anyway, the movie is not that bad, but I just can't stop thinking about all the amazing scenes that they just cutted off.

I saw the movie last night with my husband, my youngest daughter, and her best friend. I was really looking forward to it, and wound up being incredibly disappointed. It just seems to jump from one scene to the next, with no sort of explanation. Too much is left out of the movie that was in the book, as well as things being put into the movie that aren't in the book. The whole battle scene at the Ministry was just pathetic, particularly the part where Sirius dies. They didn't do justice to that at ALL. I will buy the movie when it comes out on DVD, because I'll want to be sure to have the complete set, but I don't imagine I'll be watching it very often.