Order of the Phoenix

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It's been a very long day and I'm falling asleep as I'm clickety-clacking here. So this will be short and sweet. As usual, I will not be providing a detailed summary of Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix movie since you can find that in a million places all over the internet (plus, I don't wanna spoil it for you *wink) but I will tell you how I felt about the movie (without divulging much bits about it).

It was tough, deciding on whether I liked or disliked the movie.

If you have read the HP books, you'd know that as each book progresses, the story becomes darker--and the movie adheres to that. Very good! However, this caused the 2.5 hour movie to become a wee bit slowish in the first 2/3 out of the grand total. All the action was towards the end of the movie, which I think happened and finished too fast after being overshadowed by all that "slowness" or "seriousness"--whathaveyou. 

The dialogue was skimped on some characters which I would have liked to have heard from more, but acting as usual was brilliant and the actress who played Dolores Umbridge was excellent because she had effectively caused me to absolutely despise her character--even more than I did in the book! I also loved the Luna Lovegood character and speaking voice. Cho Chang (Katie Leung) as usual was quite the eye candy!

Overall, the movie isn't bad but I personally think that Mike Newell did a better job with his style of directing. Or maybe it had nothing to do with direction (*scoff* Alfonso Cuaron) and what caused this movie to be less ooomph! was simply because HP is no longer a child's movie but one that is getting darker and angrier. It is definitely a far cry from the first movie, Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone but I think hardcore Potter fans would still watch the movie and all the others that are coming out anyway, whether it sucked balls or not.

I know I would. *wink*

I do have one pet peeve with this movie, though. I wish John Williams had done its score because it absolutely sucked and did not the fit the movie at all! There were *some* good and fitting parts fer sure, but on the whole, the music was really un-Potterlike...that is, when there was music playing which was barely for 2/3 of the movie.

Jane, fret not! You should still spend that RM9 to watch the movie because being a HP fan, you wouldn't want to miss one, would ya? :P

I am falling asleep every three seconds! I'm off to bed!