Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

NOTE: If you are not a member of the HARRY POTTER cult of personality, not only is it my duty to tell you that what follows will barely make a lick of sense, but it is an article of my wonderment why you even clicked on this review in the first place.

Why does such an imaginative and energetic series of books bring about a franchise of middle-of-the-road movies?

Money. When you have something set up to make gobs of cash aimed at youngsters, you can’t get too wild. Drives the grosses down. Confuses the kids and weirds out the adults. This is why the Harry Potter series of films hasn’t really been all that great, with three long and expensive sighs of indifference and one admittedly good one (Alfonso Cuaron’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) that still had moments of playing like...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom