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Harry Potter Years 1-5 (Widescreen Edition)
$49.98
Since getting the collection of HP years 1-5, I've been able to watch each movie and understand the saga a bit easier. Occassionaly on tv a particular channel would be having a HP weekend special, but I wasen't always able to watch. Now that I have the DVD's I can view and review however often I desire.

Harry Potter Years 1-5 (Full-Screen Edition)
$49.98
These DVDs played beautifully. No problem with picture of sound, etc. One really big problem though. It was supposed to be a brand new, never viewed boxed set of the first five Harry Potter movies. The third year DVD, even though it said Harry Potter all of over the outside cover and top of the DVD, it was the Polar Express movie with Tom Hanks. I am not happy with that at all!

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Widescreen Edition) (Harry Potter 4)
$14.98
Why do I even hope any more. this movie is just the same as the third one except with a different story and a new director to blame. GET THIS IN YOUR HEAD YOU CANNOT MAKE A MOVIE WITH JUST SPECIAL EFFECTS. This movie left so much out agin including Hermione's fledgling organization S.P,E,W, I wouldn't have minded this because Hermione's annoying but it seems the makers are so dicriminate of house elves that they have excluded them from the movie with Dobby's contribution to the story replace with Neville. The Yule Ball was awful with a short dance sequence and no reference to giants. Rita Skeeter has short appearences but they seem to have no effect on the story except making Hermione angry and there was nothing about her being an Animagus which was a needed point for the next movie. Sirius also has very little screen time only being a bunch of coals talking because the directors want to purposely overcomplicate things as to show off their wonderful special effects. The story again goes too fast excluding the Quidditch World Cup scene which introduced Viktor Krum. Actually it seems like the makers are being lazy and excluding Quidditch purposely just to give their poor animators a break so they can focus on making coals form a face and having spell fights. Now it seems like Dumbledore has transformed from a wizened wizard to a child molestor as he takes Snape's line and cue's and makes them his. The parts of the story that are excluded are mentioned instead of actually shown, clever I think not! don't get me wrong the book was excellent but it seems like they just want to show you one part and then the other and as someone mentioned before, if you blink you'll miss something. Anyways again I'm dissapointed, GET IT RIGHT PEOPLE. Another two hours of my life I'll never get back!

Harry Potter Years 1-5 [Blu-ray]
$129.98
I greatly appreciate that I can place these into my player, and just have the movie start without having to skip all the previews. Heck, I don't even need to press play.

Such a nice change from the forced multiple preview skipping/watching on any Disney disk.

These movies look and sound great.

I am very happy with this purchase.

I would also recommend the getting the Harry Potter audio books as read by Jim Dale. They are simply amazing.