Customer Reviews
Excellent Blu Ray transfer - By: Mr P, 12 May 2008 
This review is more about the blu ray transfer than the film itself.
The film is actuallly my second favourite after the prisoner of Azkhaban. Certainly gloomy but never dull, the secret training of Dumbledore's Army is great fun, & a climactic battle with Dumbledore himself is staggering.
The picture quality of this blu ray film is outstanding. Watched on a 40 inch sony with PS3 at 1080/24 it is brilliant. I did not notice any juddering mentioned in other reviews. The only quibble I have is that the picture quality is so good you notice some of the blue screen sfx, especiallly the flying on broomsticks through London, that was pretty sub par to be honest.
The visual display of the battle that Dumbledore has is absolutely amazing on Blu Ray. This film has some of the best visual quality scenes I have seen on Blu Ray.
The sound is only 5.1, I did not see any other options like DTS which is a disappointment, though the sound was still very good.
There are loads of extras, the walk through the set with Tonks is great fun, she is a talented singer ;) & I am frankly a bit smitten with her.
Overalll an excellent blu ray disc, that I would frankly recommend buying or at least renting it even if you already have it on DVD.
Help for PS3 owners with juddering - By: S. Caulwell, 16 Mar 2008 If you find you can't give this movie 5 stars because of the juddering on the PS3, one thing that gets rid of this problem for alot of people is if you go to settings on the main PS3 screen, go to BD/DVD settings, go to "BD 1080p 24 Hz Output (HDMI)" & turn it off, you can then watch your movie without noticing any difference to your picture quality & clarity.
Great movie viewing on PS3 - By: S. Turnbull, 30 Dec 2007 For the people having trouble viewing blu-ray movies with the 'juddering' on panning scenes blu-ray natively outputs at 1080p, if you do not have a 1080p capable tv but have one of the many inferior cheap lcd hd ready tv's these usuallly only go up to 720p, this means the movie must step down in terms of its resulution & refresh rate. This causes the 'judder' effect, however I am lucky enough to own a PS3 & a Sony 1080p tv & blu-ray movies look fantastic! this is probably my favourite harry potter movie so far in the series.
A great film, but I have some misgivings - By: Sonia, 11 Dec 2007 
Book 5 of the Potter series is rather gloomy. Harry is feeling alienated, nightmarish & insecure, & Voldemort is rising in power. However, what worked extremely well for the book, works a bit against the film. A film is a different means of communication from a book & to strive to follow the book too closely is to do an injustice to both.
In this case the gloom drips off the screen & almost takes over everything else. Aside from the end there is little suspense, the much needed comic relief is scarce & even the characters seem only to be partly present. The film focuses a lot on Harry, but does not always reflect his feelings very well. Hermione & especiallly Ron are reduced to minor characters with little to say, & other minor characters, such as Ginny Weasley & newcomer Nymphodora Tonks seem to be merely window dressing.
In my opinion, this is still a good enough film, but because it has tried too hard to incorporate as much of the 800 pages of the book as possible, in events, & not in depth, quality has had to make room for quantity. Better to have extended the film to add some depth, or trimmed down some of the events & the amount of characters, than to have a somewhat watered down & rushed story, where an important event (the death of someone very dear to Harry) almost seems inconsequential.
The positive aspects of the film are of course the story, but also the excellent typecasting of the characters Luna Lovegood, Dolores Umbridge & Bellatrix Lestrange. There are still a few funny moments, & if you can get used the gloom, this is a beautiful film, though I believe the previous two were a tad better.
Own a PS3? This is fantastic! - By: A. Phillips, 15 Nov 2007 I collected alll the Harry Potter films but was un-sure whether to get it for my PS3 as it didnt match the other boxes. But boy does it look fantastic on my PS3. The picture is super sharp & the action looks brilliant on my 52" 1080p, my kids were just mesmerized.
At only £18.00 is a great buy for Christmas.
