Dementors from the order of the phoenix movie

#Dementors from the order of the phoenix movie series#

Trapped in a rank underpass by a sudden, highly suspicious storm, Harry resorts to magic to rescue his unspeakable cousin Dudley (Harry Melling) from a soul-sucking Dementor and is promptly expelled for using magic in front of a civilian. It opens in a miserable little excuse for a playground in the cookie-cutter suburb where orphaned wizard Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) grimly spends school holidays with his loathsome relatives, the Dursleys.

It feels like a placeholder, not because little happens but because so much plot must be served in order to set up subsequent events that there's no room for the gentle human moments that anchor Rowling's heroic fantasy epic to the everyday world. But for the uninitiated, it's a dry and slightly dreary introduction to the world of Hogwarts and Azkaban, where enchantment and mystery - good and bad - lie beneath a placid surface of English railway platforms, call boxes and pedestrian underpasses.

#Dementors from the order of the phoenix movie series#

Rowling's series of magical (in both senses) coming-of-age novels, this fifth film should please fans who rate the films based on their fidelity to the canonical texts. Released to coincide with the publication of the seventh and last installment in J.K.