But later in the movie, they’re suddenly unable to figure out a way to get to a different location. When Harry and his friends suddenly show up in a snowy, deserted village miles from Hogwarts, you assume that perhaps they might have taken a broom. Instead the movie goes for shots of the riders in the air, and then as if they’re in some sort of bad 70s sitcom they suddenly walk out of the bushes and wave to passers by. When they ride brooms, you never actually see them land anywhere. It jumps around almost with no respect paid to figure out how the hell any of the movie’s characters got there. The movie really becomes a mess when it tries to take its characters into different locations. Anyone who isn’t an obsessive Potter devotee will be completely lost, and though the franchise’s legions will no doubt love it, it’s a pretty lousy film. Yet this is the first of the bunch to completely abandon all pretense of being a decent film, and instead goes straight for blatant, obscure, fan pandering. Books and movies are different mediums, and the Harry Potter hasn’t always understood that. The Potter movies have always ridden that edge catering too strongly to the readers of the books, and sometimes they’ve suffered as movies because of it. Minor characters and names are thrown out with complete abandon, as if the filmmaker expects us to know the life history of that girl from scene 24 whose name was only mentioned once two years ago. Worse, the film is almost impossibly hard to follow for anyone who hasn’t read, studied, and memorized every page of the Harry Potter books. However you never get the sense that they’ve really had much of an effect on him. It takes awhile for the movie to get there, but eventually some things happen. Harry is the central figure here, with everyone else relegated to the status of Harry Potter wallpaper, but he doesn’t seem to have any specific character arc. Most distressing about Order of the Phoenix is how poorly constructed it is as a movie.
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She immediately sets about sucking the life right out of Hogwarts, and all the fun of the previous movies goes missing in favor of a bitchy, pain-in the ass Harry and a boorish, listless, sad school full of mindless, put upon drones. The pace doesn’t pick up once he’s at school either, as the movie follows the now perpetually cranky Harry through a needlessly complex political plot which eventually results in the takeover of the school by a new headmistress who can only be described as a sick and twisted sadist. Till then there’s a lot of rushing around and talking urgently, but nothing really seems to happen. He’s slandered in the newspapers and used as a political tool, which only serves to make Harry’s newfound teen angst even angstier.Įventually Harry gets back to the secretive school of Hogwarts where he’s to undergo another year of tutelage. The new Wizard government has decided that Voldemort doesn’t exist, and that for the past couple of years Harry has just made the whole thing up. This time he seems to have chosen to do it through the Wizard media. As it is in each of these movies, the mysterious dark lord Voldemort has returned and continues to make life hard for Harry. We find Harry right from the outset lurking in it, transformed into an angsty, bitter, and hormonal teenager who seems to lash out at anyone and everyone, whether or not he has a reason. The film exists, more than any of the others, in sort of a perpetually dim, drab twig light world.
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