Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 138m
Director: David Yates
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Gary Oldman, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Brendan Gleeson, Richard Griffiths, Robert Hardy, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Imelda Staunton, Fiona Shaw, Julie Walters
Synopsis:
Prior to his fifth year at Hogwarts Harry is alone with his remorse over the death of Cedric Diggory but is attacked by a pair of Dementors and before long let into the secret of the formation of a secret brotherhood established to oppose Voldemort and his gathering forces, not to mention the increasingly paranoid conspiracy theories of a Ministry of Magic in denial of the coming battle. Back at school Harry leads a movement of covert revolt against the regime of Dolores Umbridge, a spy for the Ministry who discredits and then supplants Dumbledore as principal.
Review:
An instalment that adds little to the saga, save one more death and the introduction of a new character, Bellatrix Lestrange; all of which sits uneasily with the scenes involving Staunton as a nice-as-pie Trunchbull, a casting and concept straight out of the Nanny McPhee school of children's film making. A new darkness is gradually seeping into the cinematography, a bleaching out of primary colours that later films took forward, and there is gratifyingly no quidditch and little of Draco Malfoy, but the introduction of life-or-death sparring with wands at the film's conclusion generates more pretty lights than dramatic heat.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 138m
Director: David Yates
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Gary Oldman, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Brendan Gleeson, Richard Griffiths, Robert Hardy, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Imelda Staunton, Fiona Shaw, Julie Walters
Synopsis:
Prior to his fifth year at Hogwarts Harry is alone with his remorse over the death of Cedric Diggory but is attacked by a pair of Dementors and before long let into the secret of the formation of a secret brotherhood established to oppose Voldemort and his gathering forces, not to mention the increasingly paranoid conspiracy theories of a Ministry of Magic in denial of the coming battle. Back at school Harry leads a movement of covert revolt against the regime of Dolores Umbridge, a spy for the Ministry who discredits and then supplants Dumbledore as principal.
Review:
An instalment that adds little to the saga, save one more death and the introduction of a new character, Bellatrix Lestrange; all of which sits uneasily with the scenes involving Staunton as a nice-as-pie Trunchbull, a casting and concept straight out of the Nanny McPhee school of children's film making. A new darkness is gradually seeping into the cinematography, a bleaching out of primary colours that later films took forward, and there is gratifyingly no quidditch and little of Draco Malfoy, but the introduction of life-or-death sparring with wands at the film's conclusion generates more pretty lights than dramatic heat.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 138m
Director: David Yates
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Gary Oldman, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Brendan Gleeson, Richard Griffiths, Robert Hardy, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Imelda Staunton, Fiona Shaw, Julie Walters
Synopsis:
Prior to his fifth year at Hogwarts Harry is alone with his remorse over the death of Cedric Diggory but is attacked by a pair of Dementors and before long let into the secret of the formation of a secret brotherhood established to oppose Voldemort and his gathering forces, not to mention the increasingly paranoid conspiracy theories of a Ministry of Magic in denial of the coming battle. Back at school Harry leads a movement of covert revolt against the regime of Dolores Umbridge, a spy for the Ministry who discredits and then supplants Dumbledore as principal.
Review:
An instalment that adds little to the saga, save one more death and the introduction of a new character, Bellatrix Lestrange; all of which sits uneasily with the scenes involving Staunton as a nice-as-pie Trunchbull, a casting and concept straight out of the Nanny McPhee school of children's film making. A new darkness is gradually seeping into the cinematography, a bleaching out of primary colours that later films took forward, and there is gratifyingly no quidditch and little of Draco Malfoy, but the introduction of life-or-death sparring with wands at the film's conclusion generates more pretty lights than dramatic heat.