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Dolores Umbridge was even more annoying in the film that I could ever imagine. The evil characters just get eviller (is that a word?!). But she’s an ace character and I’m hoping she has more of a role to play in the final book. I’m loving the fact that Neville Longbottom has finally grown some balls!Luna Lovegood isn’t quite what I was expecting from descriptions in the book, I was expecting her to look more like Professor Trelawney. The main characters are growing up, and the others are showing their true colours. The characters really came into their own too. One minute I was hiding behind my bag of sweets, the next, wiping my nose on my sleeve. Harry’s first kiss, conversations with Godfather Sirius, and then his tragic death (yes, I still cried!). And blimey if Rupert Grint doesn’t storm the barricades of boyishness to find something emergent, touching and vital in Ron Weasley.There were several emotional moments, i.e. Among Harry’s core group, Emma Watson paints a striking portrait of emerging womanhood as Hermoine Granger. This is the film where the actors we’ve watched through five films seem to blossom and mature before our eyes. It’s a sensational performance, touching all the bases from tender (Harry’s kiss with Cho Chang, played by the lovely Katie Leung) to fearful (the dreams of death that wake him up in a cold sweat). He digs deep into the character and into Harry’s nightmares. One of the joys of this film is watching Daniel Radcliffe, 17, grow so impressively into the role of Harry. No wonder Harry and his friends build an army to fight her. Not for a second will you take your eyes off of her. Staunton is a devastating blend of mirth and menace. With her rules, prejudices and steely smile, Dolores is a kind of Dick Cheney in skirts. As written by Rowling and played by the magnificent Imelda Staunton, Dolores is the personification of bureaucracy as evil. Don’t be fooled that she turns out to be the diminutive, mousy Dolores Umbridge. It’s then that Harry meets his toughest adversary yet, a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Harry’s claims that the Dark Prince, Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) has returned is seen as a ploy to overthrow the Ministry. The threat hides a deeper plot against Harry and his mentor, Professor Dumbledore (Michael Gambon).
Trouble ensues when Harry is threatened with expulsion by the Ministry of Magic since he used magic outside of school to defeat the enemy. There’s a fresh sense here of life lived not imagined.
Yates starts the film, benefiting from a potent script by Michael Goldenberg, with a near-documentary realism when Harry and his cousin Dudley are attacked by Dementors in a park near the suburban home where Harry lives when he’s not at Hogwarts.
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With the publication of the last of the series ( Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) on July 21st, Harry’s triumph or defeat at the hands of the evil Lord Voldemort is sure to replace the Sopranos finale as pop culture’s Topic A, making Order of the Phoenix a must-see. A sense of foreboding gives the film a pulse-quickening urgency. For it’s Yates, following Rowling’s lead, who lets the shadows invade life at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where computer-generated elves, talking spiders and losing a Quidditch match are the least of Harry’s problems. The fact that that Yates will start filming Harry Potter and Half-Blood Prince in September is good news indeed.
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But it’s the lesser known David Yates, behind such British TV dramas as Sex Traffic and State of Play, who truly raises the bar with this fifth installment. Director Mike Newell held the line in 2005’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The candyass aspect of the first two films - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in 2001 and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets a year later - was replaced by heat and resonance with 2004’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban when Mexican master Alfonso Cuaron ( Children of Men) took over the directing reigns from the prosaic Chris Columbus. It will hook you good and keep you riveted. If you’re not hot for Harry onscreen, watch out for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth of the seven Potter books to be filmed to date.
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