If a film made you flee, here's your ticket to deride | Main | Harry in Your FACE! New 'Potter' film a portrays an angry young wizard He's back, and he's hacked off. The most striking aspect of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is its contrast between the hormonally and supernaturally tormented teenager at its center and the modestly well-made and easygoing picture unfolding all around him.
5 in the omnipresent global franchise, Order of the Phoenix lies at a no-nonsense halfway point between the best of the Potter films ( Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ) and the most impersonal ( Sorcerer's Stone, which made just under a billion dollars worldwide). Though some of the large-scale effects settle for the familiar, the young actors guiding the ongoing J.K.
Rowling magic act keep our human interest. We have watched these young actors grow up on-screen, and somewhere along the way Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint--Harry, Hermione and Ron to millions--turned into increasingly assured, slightly older young actors. MPAA rating: PG-13 (for sequences of fantasy violence and frightening images).
'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' 3 stars (out of 4) Directed by David Yates; screenplay by Michael Goldenberg; photographed by Slawomir Idziak; edited by Mark Day; music by Nicholas Hooper; production design by Stuart Craig; produced by David Heyman and David Barron. If a film made you flee, here's your ticket to deride | Main | Harry in Your FACE!