the biggest letdown of the year. I had to fight to pay attention through the movie; most of the time, I was bored out of my mind. While reading the books, I remember thinking to myself that Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix were too long. I remember flipping through pages just so I didn’t have to read about flickering fires in the Gryffindor reading room. This movie gave me the same feeling. I felt like so much of what was in it was unnecessary, and the necessary story development things were completely ignored.
So in the end, the movie was a forced string-together of various plot highlights from the book, and it ain’t pretty. There were no transitions, no explanations, nothing. I’m hugely disappointed. Also, after all that media and fanfare about Cho Chang, Harry’s love interest, she was in the 2.5 hour movie for all of 5 minutes. So much for that.