Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix!
I have seen it, what were you thinking? Do you really believe that I would have lost the fifth film, don’t you? I was there not precisely at midnight the first night, but just few hours later.
I have to admit that after few minutes in the film I already noticed the many differences between the script and the book. The Order of the Phoenix is my favorite (for now) and  I know it quite well. After other few minutes I thought that the film was too short indeed: two hours would have never been enough to support the huge 700 pages long book.
The film in itself is good, not the masterpiece the book is, but enjoyable. The newest character, Professor Umbridge, has been portrayed extremely well by Imelda Staunton,  but the small time dedicated to some parts of the film were unable to render justice to the literary character. The hate I had for Dolores Umbridge while reading the book was so devastating I muttered sometimes, cursing her and her action. The film has not been able of recreating the same feeling in the spectators.Overall the film was good, even if I am asking myself how many things that has been left out were necessary to deeply understand the story. I fear that some people, amongst those who didn’t read the book, were not able to understand everything; nevertheless the cut was good and the script have removed only the “non-vital” parts.No quiddich in “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” means no “Weasley is our King” chorus and other funny parts.Personally I would have loved a three-hours-long film, but I don’t think the public would have too. For the previous harry potter Hollywood adaptation the DVD were exactly the same film seen on the big screen, but this time an “Extended Edition” would have been great! Am I the only one who feel like an exact adaptation of it?Â
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