Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Review By Velvet

The fourth story of the series unraveled before my eyes. "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" opened on November 16, 2005, with a slow and dominant pace of film interaction. Starring Daniel Radcliffe as the hero of the tale, Harry Potter, along with his trio of friends Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson), the fourth film after the books was regrettably the one on the bottom of the shelves.

Now, lets talk about the story. The story expanded over a cast of the same old-same old Potter actors, but missing some too. The "Triwizard Tournament" which took place at Hogwarts this time around put every character in dismay and bravery. Potter himself was still the back bone of the film, but Radcliffe's acting I thought didn't do the job. He was boring. He was different (and not just his hair being the longest out of the films) but he shows a great deal of droll and useless character development. Through out the film, the story just lacked development of characters and perceiveing thinking methods of "how does that happen?" or "wait, I don't remember that happening, what was the point of that?". The film basically pours out emotion with the story being the fingers and toes of lacking thought and detail.

The music: stupid. Completely different then any other Potter film made, and it ruined it. Now, the score of a film has its ups and downs, and it affects it nearly enough. You need a good score for a good movie. To show that Potter films could revolve around the famous Potter tone: "daa da-da-daa daaa da... da" this one cuts it off. It made me ask myself constantly "Is this Harry Potter?" It pissed me off that Mike Newell in the director's seat could put such a lame and off-the-beat soundtrack into his deception of a Potter film. In every action, emotional, or turning point scene, the music came in and hurt my ear drums. I wanted to plug my ears because of it, it annoyed me that much. So in regards, this film was low because of the score, but partly.

The acting. Acting comes to mind for a Potter film as the average Englidh accent involved or drowsy nonsense or to put it this way "rubbish". Every actor in this film had the dubbed-sounded English accent, but its not the accent that hits the acting zone, its how they act and what they do with their roles and they did them fine.

Robbie Coltanre's "Rubeus Hagrid" I thought was the funniest in this one. he gave us most of the laughs, and some emotional slur for the woman-giant headmistress of the Beaubaxton academy of Magic, and his touching tale for dragon-attics, which was all the more funni-er to the story. So, beside the fact that Hagrid was my favorite character in this Harry Potter, all the rest were dull.

Moody was cool, as Brendan Gleeson's characters are always "cool". He had that topuch of "maybe he really is the bad guy..." but you find out soon enough. Viktor Krum and Cedric Diggory needed help, badly. Their acting was horrible and not nearly enoungh screen time to show it. Robert Pattinson's Diggory was lax and boring, as was Stanislav Lanevski's Krum. Oh, we cant forget Dumbledore or Lucius Malfoy! They both actually made me laugh in this one, for their horrible personas and unfortunate circ*mstances. Dumbldore just seemed a bit too wordy and mean. Malfoy was c*cky and weak. Lets end it there. No spoilers to those who haven't seen the film in the four years its been out.

Another factor which leads to the regrettable and deplorable meanings of this film were the trials of the tournament. All three were well made and told, but they all each lacked points in describing the character's dealings with the mythical creatures and untold mysteries of the Triwizard competition. It was all described in the book, but to put it all on the screen would give the movie even more stretched time, and it was long enough. each trial also missed some characters, including the Sphinx and dementor in the maze, and the pointless dragon chase around Hogwarts, including the Hungarian Horntail and Harry, which was not in the book, but only gave it more action and suspense.

Overall, I sincerely thought this was the worst Potter film to be made. It couldve been better, had a different director taken the seat. Mike Newell did OK but he couldve done better, and lease don't ever use the guy "Patrick Doyle" you did the score for because he sucked at the job. Terminate him, which in fact I think why he wasn't used for the fifth film. So an OK film, worst in the series.