Harry potter 5

An old review of harry potter that I dug up because I'm busy today.




As a big fan of the books, I found myself disappointed. It was a very long book, yes, and I agree that cuts were necessary; in fact i even applaud the fact that they kept all of the important information, unlike in movie 3. However they changed a lot. And not for the better. And, with the exception of cutting out dobby(who I'm sure is expensive to animate) yet again, these changes have seemingly no reason. Events are moved around the storyline arbitrarily and many fun things are cut out to economize time. Still, I would not have minded these changes if it did not detract from the emotional arch of the book. Harry's adolescent struggle into manhood is probably what turned many people off of the book, but it's still a main theme and one that isn't represented well. Overall I thought the story seemed scattered and had they stuck closer to the source material in emotion, I wouldn't have minded the arbitrary changes.

On the other hand the composition and cinematography was the best yet. In this movie, the clean cut style of Columbus is completely abandoned for a more modern, gritty style. Still, with how much I liked it, I heard people talking about the use of time changes in editing and I could almost hear the style sailing swiftly over their heads.

Overall I think it's not the worst but certainly not the best.