Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Special Edition)

A great Blu Ray release. Sound and picture is excellent. Didn't notice any Digital Noise or sound dropping during scenes. A great looking movie to show off the power of your HD TV and Surround Sound system. Even if you don't have those, the Special Features are more than worth the buy. They don't just feature everybody patting each other on the back, but really get into the meat of how this Movie was made. Regarding the movie, as a movie (!), I found it to be one of the most entertaining of the series. As an adaptation, however, I'll say its sorely lacking, which brings me to a slight feeling of disappointment regarding its length. It could've been a better adaptation. This isn't to say its a bad adaptation, but to say it could've definitely been better, which brings me to something I feel should be addressed: the notion of an Extended Cut of the film. The Extended Cut doesn't exist, folks, or at least not the one you're looking for. I've read the screenplay (The Shooting Script), and with the exception of a scene in Professor Trelawney's classroom, which was filmed and is included as a Deleted Scene here, and Professor McGonagall's Stunning Spell scenes (which, as written, were completely over the top and might've killed the overall tone of the film), there is nothing else to add save for a bunch of scenes that would be remarkably hindering of the film's pacing (like Harry skipping stones or the Threstrals scene with Hagrid). The film is actually better than the script, as Director David Yates, together with Mark Day, improved on the film's pacing by shortening some scenes, jump cutting (like during the climax and during Harry's dreams/premonitions) and using newspaper montages. That supposed 40 minutes of cut-footage? Outside of maybe 20 minutes of Deleted Scenes which wouldn't add anything, it was cut FOOTAGE. Alternate takes, unused coverage, and cut lines- the stuff that proves useless in making a movie better, and can in fact make a movie worse (The Director's Cut of The Chronicles of Riddick). Its like that one famous unused shot from The Dark Knight showing Heath Ledger as The Joker cackling on the school bus while the Hospital blows up outside of the bus windows = completely unnecessary. The Extended Cuts that certain people are looking for in the series couldn't exist, anyways. After all, Rowling's books were still being released when the films were, and she famously refused to cue in Steve Kloves and the directors on where the series was headed, given her fear that they may spoil important plot points of later books before their release. The only films in the series that could've had proper Extended Cuts are The Half-Blood Prince and The Deathly Hallows, and rather than do that, David Yates set about finishing the series as its own separate being from the books (including things like Flying Death Eaters, the burning Weasley home, and the like). There still could be solid Extended Cuts of those films, but those probably wouldn't improve the films as better adaptations. Sorry I spent so much time on that aspect, but it needed to be addressed, and badly, seeing the many comments and reviews trashing The Ultimate Editions of the films over the lack of Extended Cuts. If you're a complete Potter Movie nut, this is the set to buy. Your Blu Ray player will thank you.

Good movie

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is another great DVD in the Harry Potter series!

Needed to replace my old one came fast and it was fairly cheap

I've purchased this dvd twice and both are defective! I didn't return the first one I purchased because I felt it wasn't worth the "hassel". The second dvd played fine until about half way thru and then it froze. Starting over didn't help, nor trying to go to another scene selection. I gave up! Now I'm trying to return the most recently purchased Order of the Phoenix and am having trouble doing that. I love Amazon, but this is driving me to think twice.

What people need to understand is that it ISN'T UP TO WARNER BROS or the Company that releases films on DVD/BD to include a director's cut!! They can't just make up an extended version by cobbling togetehr deleted scenes and include it on the disc. The original DIRECTOR of the films has to be commissioned by the Production studio to come back and essentially re-edit the film and create a new transfer, essentially creating a new version. Most director's don't have time for this process. Chris Columbus was able to because, as of late, he doesn't seem as busy and the subsequent directors. David Yates has been busy creating the momumentally epic conclusion to this series and unfortunately, that didn't allow him the time to come up with director's extended cuts in time for the studio's release dates for 5 and 6. As for 3 and 4, there NEVER WAS any director's extended cuts, as the director's of those films stated that what was released in theatres was their intended vision. David Yates may have meant to include more, but ultimately he never was able to make time as he has a wonderful final installment to get made. Read the books, watch the deleted scenes and shut up! These are still ULTIMATE COLLECTOR'S EDITIONS because each contains the ONLY VERSION of 3,4,5 and 6 that exist. If you want extended cuts, become a director, do a remake and then see how easy it is to fight the studio in charge of theatrical distribution. THEY control the money and the decisions. Different entity than the distributors for the home video editions. Warner Bro's has done a wonderful things by giving us these editions to cherish. So quit your complaining.

A few years ago I my daughter what she wanted for Christmas and this is what she wanted. She has some of movies but lost all of her books in a flood. So each year she a book and a movie. Although this year I cheated a bit and gave her a book and a movie for her birthday as well. I have this book set aside to go in stocking on Christmas Eve. We don't spend a lot on Christmas presents and I work on presents all through the year. So everyone has something nice. The book, although paperback, is quite heavy. It is not abridged and the pages I looked at were well printed. While not the kind of book I am interested in, for those who are it would be a good buy. Just a note, I have been buying the previous books in the Harry Potter series and my daughter has not had one word of complaint. And yes, she does read them

La edición BluRay más económica y completa que he encontrado, sin pijadas de estuches lujosos que encarecen el producto, y con todos los extras que esperaba: versiones extendidas, documentales, y unos libritos de fotos muy majos. Muy recomendable.

Best of all the Potter films.

Llego en buen estado solo se retraso 1 día pero superó mis expectativas; pensaba que solo vendría la película y escenas eliminadas, pero viene mucho más, vienen estampas de los personajes, un libro de como crearon los escenarios o escenas de todas las películas y vienen imágenes en el protector de la pelicula. 1000/10

Da ich sowohl Harry Potter-Fan, als auch PSP-Junkie bin, lag dieser Kauf nahe. Habe natürlich auch die ersten 4 Filme. Bin begeistert!

J'ai longuement hésité à commander ce Blu-ray car descriptif trop bref. Je confirme aucun pb, menu+langue (Dolby 5.1)+sous-titre en français. Une très bonne image et un son excellent. A acheter sans aucun regret. Seul bémol, la livraison semble un peu longue (environ 15j), à comparer au 48 voire 72h pour un achat sur AMAZON.