Harry Potter Years 1-5 Limited Edition Gift Set (Sorcerers Stone/ Chamber of Secrets/ Prisoner of Azkaban/ Goblet of Fire/ Order of the Phoenix) [Blu-ray]
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Actor: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert GrintBrand: Warner Brothers
Blu-ray: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); French (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Color, Limited Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 750 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2007-12-11
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Brothers
Blu-ray Reviews of Harry Potter Years 1-5 Limited Edition Gift Set (Sorcerers Stone/ Chamber of Secrets/ Prisoner of Azkaban/ Goblet of Fire/ Order of the Phoenix) [Blu-ray]
Blu-ray Review: I'm Just Wild About Harry
Summary: 5 Stars
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire & Order of the Phoenix were all at minimum very good. Certainly Socerer's Stone, Chamber and Goblet of Fire are as 5-star as it gets. Azkaban was relatively slow compared to the others, and the most recent, Order of the Phoenix, was also a bit drawn out, but still great.
The A-list actors giving A-list performances goes on and on in this series of films....You have Richard Harris (GRHS) who was flawlessly and un-noticably (no disrespect intended) replaced by Michael Gambon; Miranda Richardson, Gary Oldman, there's Alan Rickman doing his best Jeremy Irons imitation, Ralph Fiennes, John Hurt, Shirley Henderson, John Cleese and of course Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid. I know I'm forgetting more, but you get the idea.
Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber were brilliantly led by the direction of Veteran Chris Columbus (Home Alone and tons more). And the cast of these films?...How often do three unknowns (Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, Emma Watson as Hermione Granger and Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley) walk into overnight stardom? Not very often. But these three sure did. And it's well deserved. Their characters are well acted and believable; not bad for a bunch of preteens whose debuts now seem so long ago.
Azkaban was really good and certainly an integral part of the Harry Potter progression of stories. But Azkaban was the first hand-off of the director baton from Columbus to the short resumed, mostly-foreign-film-guy Alfonso Cuarón (prior to Children of Men). Columbus still had oversight as a producer to Azkaban, so perhaps Cuarón felt intimidated by Columbus' brilliance in Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber...or perhaps Cuarón just held back from doing his own thing. Be that as it may, the change in "direction" really showed through. And Cuarón was gone for Goblet.
Goblet comes in with three changes in direction: 1) The director change from Cuarón back to another vet in Mike Newell (Donnie Brasco), 2) The exit of Columbus oversight, and 3) A shift from...shall we say...a more famlyish Harry Potter to a more dark Harry Potter (the way it was intended!). And this did not go un-noticed by the MPAA.
The Dirctor's Chair went back to a relatively inexperieced Daid Yates for Order of the Phoenix, but Yates stayed the course started by Newell and kept the darkness (and the PG-13) in.
It must be tough to make a PG movie these days; it's hard to believe that the MPAA took the Potter series from a PG rating to a PG-13 rating starting with Goblet. Kids 13 and under can see uglier violence and hear more profanity at school recess and at the local playground than they do in Harry Potter movies. How is it that a movie like Goblet without a curse-word or graphic act of violence (by today's standards anyway) gets thrown into the same category as, for example, Alien Vs. Predator, that does indeed not only have profanity, but strong violence? Ludicrous. But I won't get started on how unfair the MPAA is and how neurotically insane the pressure is from certain groups on the MPAA to "protect" our youth.
I will indeed finish by saying that the first five Harry Potter releases combined have grossed close to $3,000,000,000 (that's a three BILLION dollars) because they're excellent movies that kids can watch too. So stick that in your pipe and smoke it, MPAA.
If you somehow missed these movies, I hope that my long-winded review has encouraged you to add them to your cart. I can't wait for the upcoming 2008 continuation of the Harry Potter series with Half-Blood Prince and finally Deathly Hallows announced for 2010.
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