This movie was much closer to the book than the OoP was. The audience was laughing over the teen romance parts and crying with the death of Dumbledore. Yes, the movie wasn't exactly like the book, but I gave up on that issue when they had to replace the original Dumbledore, in the 3rd movie....From that point on, the movies often strayed from the books...though, I think, this movie has done the best job of resembling the book than movies 3, 4 or 5 did. I thought it was a really good movie.