Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Review

starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Robert Pattinson
director: Mike Newell

Along with the first three movies, I watched The Goblet of Fire before reading a single page out of the Harry Potter series. At this point, I had never missed the opening day of a Harry Potter movie and didn't plan to with this one either. The theater was packed with people, so I was lucky to get a good enough seat to enjoy the movie without hurting my neck from looking straight up.

With so many new characters coming on in this movie, it felt a little bit overwhelming at first, but after a few more times of watching it, everything fell in to order. The wizarding world opened up so much more during this movie than from the other three. The Quidditch World Cup, the Dark Mark, the Goblet of Fire, the Unforgivable Curses, dragons, and international wizards were all very new to the series that we as the audience didn't know before. I thought there could be no limit from here on out, this installment was the reason I wanted to start reading the books, beginning with #1 (The Sorcerer's Stone).

This was the first movie where someone had perished. Unfortunately, it was the Hufflepuff Hero, Cedric Diggory played by Robert Pattinson. It was a complete shock to me the first time I watched this movie, I would have never expected for him to die, let alone to Wormtail. I thought Robert Pattinson did an excellent job on playing Cedric, he can unleash intensity and kindness simultaneously whenever needed, which is how I had pictured Cedric Diggory to be.

The first thing that I noticed about the Trio (Harry, Ron, and Hermione), was that they had soooo much hair. Hermione has an excuse being that she is a girl, but Harry and Ron had loads of hair which was kind of distracting for the first 15 or so minutes into the film. I think Mike Newell wanted to have the Harry Potter film franchise take a drastic 180 degrees into adulthood with some of the scenes. For example when Hagrid was dancing with the giantess Madame Olympe Maxime during the Yule Ball and he slyly slithered down to grab some giant ass. Another is the tug and pull relationship developing between Ron and Hermione, especially during the Yule Ball, which happened to silence the people who were rooting for a Harry+Hermione relationship to happen. I could keep going with this list but I can't stop without pointing out one more, the part where the lovely ladies from the Beauxbatons Academy were striding along the middle of the Great Hall in Hogwarts and a scene cut straight to their butts, bloody hell indeed Ron.

Despite having so much information, characters, and plot-lines to introduce to the audience, I thought the movie was made beautifully. Nothing seemed out of place, and I applaud everyone who worked on the film on how great it turned out. I also have to thank the talented author who made this entire series possible: J.K. Rowling, for with her incredible imagination, determination and success, I would not have the opportunity to have watched such a great film series.