First, I saw Shrek 2 this weekend and it was good, funny and worth seeing but not great.
Second, I saw PoA last Friday. There is no point in discussing everything that they left out. But even with that being the case I still thought it the best of the three movies so far. The kids are getting soooo much better. Even Daniel Radcliffe was pretty good and he was definatly the most annoying before ( with the exception of the Weasley twins who have always been frighteningly bad, but even they were pretty good this time).
Certain things really needed to be explained and weren't but you had that in the other movies too.
Overall I was pretty well plaesed with PoA and can't wait for the DVD with deleted scenes (there's always something to look forward to)