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And this is was where the standards slipped

Advantages: Performances, music.
Disadvantages: Storyline.

The fifth Harry Potter film...the effects got better, the performances are amazing but the storyline isn't that brilliant. The pressure of making the Harry Potter films better and better is immense, but it didn't work that well this time. Story The film starts off in Little Whinging. Harry is in a park when his cousin Dudley comes across with his mates to tease Harry about numerous things, including his parents. The atmosphere goes from ...
...mates take off, leaving Harry and Dudley in the park. As the rain comes, the take shelter in the underpass when they are confronted by the Dementors. They perform the "Dementors Kiss" on Dudley and Harry tries to fight them off with the "Expecto Patronum" charm. Just as the second dementor turns to Harry, they disappear when an old lady enters the underpass. She also lives on Privet Drive, and Dumbeldore had asked her to watch out for Harry. She ...

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Review of Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix (DVD)

The Dark Lord Returns

Advantages: Great acting, good story, excellent special effects
Disadvantages: So much of the book is missing

Harry finds himself back once again at Privet Drive but has found peace at the playground where he likes to be by himself, that is until Dudley and his gang arrive. A storm is fast approaching so the boys start to run home. Disaster strikes for Harry when he is forced to use magic to fight off the Dementors which are attacking him and Dudley. As a result of the use of magic he is expelled from Hogwarts and soon finds himself at a strange house after ...
...Harry soon learns that this house is the control base for the Order of the Phoenix who are trying to fight of Lord Voldermort. Luckily for Harry he is given a trial and as he wins he is allowed back to Hogwarts. Things start to change at school though when the Ministry but in and soon they are trying to make out Harry and Dumbledore made up the whole story of Voldermort being back. Harry and a group of students who do believe him set up a new group ...

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Review of Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix (DVD)

Wow, How I Wish I Could Do Magic!!!

Advantages: Fantastic, HD, Incredible Effects, Brilliant Acting, Everything!
Disadvantages: Misses out a lot from the book

...REVIEW What Is It? Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the long awaited DVD/Blue Ray/HD movie released on the 11th of November 2007. I am reviewing the Blue-Ray version and not the DVD/HD version that may slightly differ. This is Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts in JK Rowling's highly successful series of books. Blue Ray I didn't know much about Blue Ray until my brother got a PS3 and a new TV but it actually, in some respects, ...
...is of Ron (Rupert Grint) Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) Hermione (Emma Watson) and Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) in a little 'prophecy' at the bottom. They are in battle poses, as they are getting ready for the revolution. This is the typical promotional poster that was used in cinemas so will be familiar to a lot of people. The back has a very basic description of the movie plot and the continuing dark theme. It is very attractive and very 'magical.' Classification ...

scotlandizdabest 17.11.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix (Blu-ray)

You Look Like a Radioactive Tampon

Advantages: Great Direction and Acting
Disadvantages: Too Slow for some

Moon reminds me a lot of those big weighty Sci-fi films of the seventies where it was all about atmosphere, storyline and your imagination rather than riotous special effects and wise cracking aliens. This film is utterly beguiling, its tense but strangely relaxing, all of these is down to two men, the director Duncan Jones and the star Sam Rockwell. This is Jones' first feature film and its an incredibly impressive debut, he eschewed using his father ...
...it is a really fantastic film which is a credit to him. Starring Sam Rockwell as Sam, the only worker on an automated lunar mining complex. He has been working on his own for nearly three years and nearing the end of his term in space he feels lonely, isolated and confused....as anyone would, I imagine. With only a droid, Gerty (Voiced by Kevin Spacey) for company, Sam is alone and starts to feel a world apart from Earth, he feels he is alone but ...

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Review of Moon (DVD)

Sometimes, Ignorance is bliss

Advantages: clever thriller, good story, well acted
Disadvantages: bit depressing?

Dont misunderstand my review title, this is a cracking film. You can nearly always say that about Nicolas Cage films, but this one really is! The premise is simple. There are many disasters happening on earth, for some reason, aliens decide to warn mankind about the upcoming disasters by "whispering" them to a little girl in the 1950's. Unfortuneately, that girl does nothing with the information other than write it down on a bit of paper and allow ...
...capsule. The capsule is dug up in the current day and discovered by Nicolas Cage's character. He soon discovers the code in the series of numbers written on the page and works out that the code tells of impending disasters, when they will happen, how many will die and the location. The story continues on along this path, with a worrying fortelling of the end of days. We don't know what will happen right until the end. I wont ruin it for you either, ...

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