Product Details

• Actors: Dr. Douglas D. Stauffer
• Directors: Lanes Boggs
• Format: Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: McCowen Mills Publishers
• DVD Release Date: July 9, 2004
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0006UUPTA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #451,996 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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18 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars My christian home loves Harry Potter!, April 14, 2006

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Leigha N. Thursby (Sunshine State, Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Harry Potter: Innocent Entertainment? or Darkness Disguised? (DVD)

As the daughter of a pentecostal preacher, My children, family members, and friends love the Harry Potter series. It actually is a wonderful story of good versus evil, as most of our children's classic fairy tales are. For some reason, stories such as Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty, aren't labeled as "Darkminded" , "Satanic", or "Cult". They include magic and fantasy. If this series encourages one to look into the "Darkside", then they didn't have an understanding of faith or Christianity to start with and obviously have more pressing life issues than Harry Potter.
The way the author has told the story of a boy who was mistreated and abused for much of his life finally finding love and a sense of belonging is also a great way to reach out to so many children who feel that very way. It shows children that it is okay to be different and has many other lessons infused throughout the series.
Most of the people I know who won't allow their children to read these books haven't even read them themselves. They just took the word of some other shallow minded idiot.

15 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Why Are You All so Scared?, January 28, 2006

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AmericaninTurin (Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Harry Potter: Innocent Entertainment? or Darkness Disguised? (DVD)

My answer to those two questions are:
1- Harry Potter is NOT innocent entertainment. You can actually learn from it. What? A few examples. Book One: the value of friendship. Book 2: your race or creed is not important. What really matters is how much you improve your skills and how much you improve the life of the people around you. Book 3: The importance of knowing where you come from. Book 4:Overcoming your fears is vital. Book 5: You have a right to fight peacefully if the government that rules your country does not satisfy you or it tells you big lies. Book 6: Whatever you go through you can find resiliency right into you.
2- Darkness is not disguised. It's quite evident. But why should it not? Darkness is all around us. It does not bear VOldemort's name, but we can easily recognize it. We have it inside ourselves,too,under the names of greed, anger, violence.
Why are all so scared? Church activists are afraid that reader will go on worshipping Darkness. Well, I don't think so. First of all, because Harry Potter fights darkness. Then, because the target age of the books and the movies are well beyond the age when kids can't tell the difference between reality and fiction.
They are also afraid that readers will start practising magic instead of going to CHurch. But if believing in magic is that dangerous, why don't we start saying Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, los reyes magos do not exist?The answer is, because a little poetry - and magic is poetry- makes life better.
So, should we ban this DVD and all if the books similar to it? Of course not. We should, on the contrary, read and watch them, so tho have a better view of everything and hence make a more thought upon choice on where we should stand.
I stand for Harry Potter.

15 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars How can you try to ruin this?, January 19, 2006

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Tons "redneckgirl_78209" (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Harry Potter: Innocent Entertainment? or Darkness Disguised? (DVD)

I wonder why it is that now a book series and movies come out that truly engage children and make them want to read and experience something that opens the imagination, people want to ruin it and take it away. I would sugest instead of banning Harry Potter merchandise we ban garbage like this. I pity you for being so cruel to a child's mind when all they are doing is reading finally.... instead of watching all the smut on TV. You should be singing praises for these books and their author. Three cheers for J.K. Rowling, for bringing good books back to our youth.