Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry starts to have dreams of Voldemort’s return and the Tri-wizard Tournament comes back to Hogwart’s after a 100-year absence due to it being too dangerous.

Like I have done with all the Harry Potter movies, I read the book just before watching the movie. I know nothing about the fifth or sixth books, even though I own them. The fourth book is my favorite so far, but I had no idea how the movie would fit all the parts of the book in. It didn’t. It had to cut out subplots that are great to read about in the book, but aren’t necessary to move the characters or main story along.

I saw this movie with Jer and Amy when visiting Arizona. We saw it on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving so there were not a lot of people in the theater. Since Jer usually has a horrible movie-going experience, this one was not any better. He sat on the other side of Amy for a while until an ancient woman sat next to him, humming, smacking her lips and kicking the bar in front of her. He moved to the other side of me, which made Amy think that Jer didn’t want to sit next to her. A couple sat on the other side of Jer and the guy right next to him kept elbowing him and moving every five seconds. Jer decided that scary old lady was the winner so moved next to her again towards the end of the movie. I’m not sure how much of the movie he ended up seeing.

While watching the movie, and when Jer was next to me, we would say “O rly?” every time we saw an owl. We found this to be hilarious. When Jer moved, I had to start saying it over Amy. She laughed and hopefully was not too annoyed at us amusing ourselves.

Now back to the movie! I really liked the director of the third movie. I thought he did a great job and gave the movie a darker feel that was more exciting to watch. I think the director for this movie did a great job too. I liked the visuals of the third movie best so far, but this movie was very tense during the tournament scenes. I did feel some of the teen crush and romantic scenes seemed bit rushed, but then I don’t know if the movie could go into the same depth that the book did in the same respect without losing out on the action. I thought it did a good job with Harry’s crush on Cho, but missed a lot of the fun of Hermoine and Krum flirting. It skipped to the end of her becoming bored of him a little too quickly. It did a good job of Ron and Hermoine liking each other, but not realizing it yet though.

I loved Mad-Eye Moody in the book and was hoping my favorite scene with him in it would be in the movie–turning Malfoy into a ferret. It was! I was very happy. His eye cracked me up in the book, so I’m glad that he was as entertaining in the movie too. I also liked Dumbledore more in this movie. I wasn’t so sure about the actor playing him in the third movie. He just wasn’t the same as the original actor, but I think he came into the character more here.

For people that haven’t read the books, I recommend watching the third and fourth movies. I think the first two are too boring. I recommend the books instead. I think the last two movies definitely stand up the books and I can’t wait for the next one!

Rating: A-

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