Yet another great Harry Potter! J.K. Rowling knows what she's doing!This is a great one. Dolores Umbridge really anoyed me. It may be scary for younger kids since Voldemort "posseses" Harry,but it's still a good movie.
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Not age appropriate for kids under 8, age appropriate for kids over 12; suggested age 12. -
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Common Sense says
Riveting fifth movie finds Harry angry, brooding.
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 12 and Up
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What Parents Need to Know
About Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Parents need to know that even kids who can't read know about Harry Potter, and some kids who are too young for the content will want to see this fifth Potter movie (which is especially well timed, since the seventh -- and final! -- book hits bookstores July 21). As has been the case with each succeeding movie, as the central characters have gotten older and taken on bigger challenges, the themes darken, the danger becomes more intense, and the climatic battle scenes with "You Know Who" and his minions are downright frightening. Spoiler alert: There's a very upsetting (but bloodless) death of someone near and dear to Harry. As a result, he grows even more introspective and angry. At the very least, he does enjoy his first kiss (no spoiler to Potterheads), and Ron and Hermione continue their flirtatious bickering.
Read our full review by Sandie Angulo Chen
Families Can Talk About
- Families can talk about the movies' increasingly mature themes as Harry grows into a full-blown adolescent. Why is Harry so angry? Do you think Harry and his friends act and feel like real teenagers? Also, even though this movie and the last one are rated PG-13, they're heavily marketed to younger kids -- do you think that's OK, or are the later movies too scary for little kids? Potterheads: What parts of the book were best depicted in the film? What got left out that you would have included? What scenes included heavy foreshadowing of things to come?
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- I rate this title on for age 9 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
AMAZING!!!!!
- I rate this title on for age 9 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
AMAZING!!!!!
Yet another great Harry Potter! J.K. Rowling knows what she's doing!This is a great one. Dolores Umbridge really anoyed me. It may be scary for younger kids since Voldemort "posseses" Harry,but it's still a good movie.
- I rate this title on for age 10 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
NOT NEARLY AS GREAT AS THE REST
This movie was not nearly as great as all the others. But very big fans of Harry Potter will still enjoy.
- I rate this title iffy for age 7 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate language
Great movie! A must see.
I Harry Potter is a very good movie and it has good messages. It is very violent and there's lots of swearing. But I think that it is OK kids age 7 and up.
- I rate this title on for age 7 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate language
- Negative role models
Harry Potter is a VERY good movie. It has some parts that might not be very go
- I rate this title on for age 9 and give it
a great movie
a great movie.
- I rate this title on for age 7 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
Perfect
Great movie love the messsage and think that the new movie is a bit of a disapointment compard to this wonder
- I rate this title on for age 11 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
good for tweens, and teens
this movie was my favorite potter. it had some good violence out of all of the movies. it was very scary compared to all of them but it was good.
- I rate this title iffy for age 12 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
Pretty good.
The movie is probably one of my least favorites in the series but, the action is really good. Some people find it creepy but I don't think it is.
- I rate this title on for age 10 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
Awsome movie
Gret Movie. It's not scary to me, but one of my friends (that is my age) found it scary.
- I rate this title on for age 10 and give it
DANIEL RADCLIFFE RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I loved this movie!!!!!!! BUT, They NEVER include Peeves!!! It is their loss thet they don't include his rebellion against Umbridge!!! I thought the movie was not very accurate to the movie, since they left out some key parts. I think they have the perfect casting in this movie!! Daniel Radcliffe ROCKS!!! I also think that people don't give Luna enough credit! She is HILARIOUS!!!! They left out the aftermath of the snake dream, before Harry goes to Dumbledore's office. They did not include much of what happened in the department of Mysteries!! And there wasn't the usual talk between Harry and Dumbledore at the end. But, I really, really liked this movie. I give it an A+! P.S. I thought the battle between Dumbledore Voldemort/The possesion scene with Harry and Voledemort was very, very well done!!!! Go Daniel Radcliffe!!!!
- I rate this title on for age 11 and give it
no eyes under........................
this movie is even less scary then the fourth one! but still it was good and no eyes under 11 should see it.
- I rate this title on for age 13 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
Commen sense i completely agree with you!!! Accept deserves 5 star!
Riveting is the exact word that fits this movie... The anger that potter has is fun to watch a difeerent path in the movie!!! Beautiful film...And for christians like me, it is fine... It will not affect you in any spiritual way... It is not harmful to you!! Christian parnts let you kids watch this brilliatn spectactle!
- I rate this title on for age 10 and give it
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
daniel radcliff rocks!!!!!!!!!!!
this movie rocks just like daniel radcliffs acting.
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
there's no drinking, smoking or drugs in this!!
People on here are so over sensitive ya know?? 100% of parents think there is too much smoking drinking and drugs?? there is none of that stuff!! they just don't like it cuz there's magic in it :( soooo pathetic (not the movie)
- I rate this title on for age 9 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
Great Movie! If You Saw 4 And Could Handle It, You Can Handle 5!
Hey, first of all, I saw this IN THE THEATERS when I was nine. Of course my parents had to preveiw it but they thought it was fine and guess what it totally was! The violence gets a bit rough, but I could handle it. If you've seen number 4, you can handle number 5. 4 is much more scary than 5. I also know that all the stuff you all may have thought was "Unessesary and gross" was in the books, so it was nessesary. The movie is great and has turned into one of my favorites.
- I rate this title iffy for age 11 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
too much kissing scenes to take a kid under eleven.
- I rate this title on for age 13 and give itMy concerns are:
- Inappropriate language
Please Read This!
Ronald Weasley uses the British cuss word, bloody, in the movie and I think you should look it up in a British dictionary before you let your children watch this movie.
- I rate this title iffy for age 7 and give it
Good Movie
This movie was very good. I think they could've explained some things better, but it was my favorite of the first five harry potter movies. I only say it is iffy for age 7 just because they might not want to see a certain character be a little bit bloody from the attack by a snake.
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