Monday, March 24, 2008

Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix ~ Movie

I just watched the latest installment of Harry Porter series based from its fifth book ‘Harry Porter and The Order of The Phoenix’ today after a good 2 years of waiting J. The theater was packed (obviously I wasn’t the only one so eager to watch that we booked the tickets 2 weeks in advance).
Surprisingly, this is the shortest movie among the previous Porter movies and yet it’s based from the thickest book among the series (how ironic). I give thumbs up for the producer to compress the more than 800 pages book into 2.5 hours movie. Harry and friends grow so fast compare from the last movie, from cuties to hotties J. You can catch Harry’s toned physique wrapped in a tight T-shirt in the beginning part when suddenly 2 dementors attack him and his cousin (I just can’t help but gawking at Harry haha).
The movie takes only the major plot from the book. However, it shows a good amount of Harry’s emotional stages of being accused a liar for telling people that the ‘Who must not be named’ is back, tormented horribly by Prof Umbridge (I hate this lady in the book and even more in the movie), and the final blow, having to watch his god father die. For those who never read the book, yes, it’s a spoiler, I apologize for that, but who hasn’t read the book? You can also see Harry’s acting skill has improved a lot and thus can pull this series of emotional rollercoaster off (keep up the good work, Daniel!).
For non-Harry Porter fans, this movie is still worth to watch because it’s loaded with full blow of special effect! You already see some of them from the trailer and sure are impressed by it and you’ll be immersed for 2.5 hours in the world of Hogwarts. I particularly like the special effect during the mass fighting scenes toward the end of the movie and when Dumbledore fought Voldermort to protect Harry. So what are you waiting for? Join me in Harry Porter mania haha… and you’ll see me queuing for the book on 21st July at Kinokuniya Orchard.

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