Instead of teaching kids to actually protect themselves, Umbridge only teaches defense theory. In order to watch Potter and Dumbledore during the new school year, Fudge installs his loyal crony Dolores Umbridge (Imelda Staunton) in Hogwarts as the new defense of the dark arts professor. Instead of accepting Potter’s dire alert, Fudge denies the return and smears Potter, Hogwarts Headmaster Albus Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) and anyone who would be willing to defend Potter through the media. In the fourth film, Potter witnesses the reincarnation of Lord Voldemort, easily the most evil wizard to ever walk the face of the earth. A complicit media (The Daily Prophet) is helping Cornelius Fudge (Robert Hardy), head of the wizarding world’s Ministry of Magic, funnel misinformation about the return of Harry Potter’s (Daniel Radcliffe) archnemisis, Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes).
How could Harry Potter be important? Well let’s make the case for some contemporary political subtext. Now audiences are treated to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which not only takes that new direction to a higher level, but also stands out as the first Harry Potter film that can be considered important. With the exception of screenwriter Steven Kloves sticking around for Goblet of Fire, that fourth installment was a completely new vision for the series. I blame the transitional nature of that third film for its failure. It was the last film to feature John Williams’s original music and the last film with Chris Columbus, the franchise’s first director, attached to it in any way.
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The Prisoner of Azkaban, which is arguably the worst film in the Harry Potter series, was the third movie produced and the last one to have remnants of the original two films, Sorcerer’s Stone and Chamber of Secrets. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)–**** Posted by Dan Stasiewski on in Movie Review | 1 comment
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