Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Movie Review

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Zora Flatley
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Anything from the trolley dears?” A different Harry Potter movie? We thought so too. “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” was the darkest as well as the most disappointing Harry Potter movie so far. With the acting being much less than adequate, lighting that is off in most scenes, and other over-embellished scenes, it is no wonder this is by far the audience’s least favorite movie of the series.

The movie follows the general storyline of the book, introducing the Triwizard Tournament. The Triwizard Tournament is an extremely dangerous magical tournament held in one of three different magical schools every five years.

The challenges include retrieving an egg that held a clue for the second challenge while escaping from a dragon; retrieving loved ones from deep in the lake while under time constraints; and going through a magically infused maze to reach the Triwizard cup and ultimately win the entire contest.

Given the number of risks in each challenge, only those 17 and over were allowed to compete. But of course, even though Harry was still 14, someone had put his name in the cup, and the cup chose him.

Throughout the movie we see Harry battling to complete each challenge, when finally, he and Cedric Diggory reach the cup, only for it to be a portal that takes them to what was the rebirth of The Dark Lord himself, and the demise of his classmate, Cedric.

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The biggest flaw of the entire movie, has got to be: “HARRY DID YA PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIA?” – Michael Gambon’s Dumbledore right after the cup chose its competitors.

Even though there are clear differences in the book and the movie, the one that captured everyone’s attention is that the narration in the book was “Harry did you put your name in the Goblet of Fire?” Dumbledore said, calmly. Again, the movie is not to the tee in most parts, yet, Dumbledore is a wise old (100+ years) professor, who is supposedly extremely calm in most situations.

Yet we see Gambon jumping and screaming and completely overacting a scene which is seen as completely unnecessary. Also, the much, much less than adequate acting from Katie Leung, who plays Cho Chang was a complete miss.

Even though she tries to play a sweet and innocent love interest in Harry’s, her part was very much robotic and completely unremarkable and not memorable, to say the least.

It is clear that in general, this movie is much darker than its predecessors, but many of the viewers complained that in some scenes, the lighting was extremely dark that some of the elements were not seen.

On the other hand, some parts were completely over-embellished, and long like the scenes with the two other competing schools are introduced. Overall, this movie did not live up to the previous three, not in acting nor in filming/editing, and takes the least rating of 5/10.