A new breed of Harry Potter magic

Rating: 7/10 (20 November 2005)

HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE is the latest Harry Potter adaptation, director Newell takes a new kind of breed into the most popular movie series around. And seeing Daniel Radcliffe for the fourth time as Harry is still highly entertaining, funny and amazing - and with that said; there's no doubt that there's magical movie-making going around when J.K. Rowling's books makes the big screen.
STORY: Harry Potter's fourth year at Hogwart's school of witch-craft and wizardry takes the gang of three into a new level of aging, hitting the teens they again face evils and dark wizardry, challenges beyond reason and striking drama.
Chris Colombus being the director of the first two Harry Potter movies didn't really dive into the darker side of the Potter-world, the much more daring Alfonso Cuarón made a fabulous new excitement and with this year's Harry Potter, Mike Newell delivers a lots of chills and thrills. Though the whole Potter-gag has gotten a lot of punishment because of it's lack of material from the books, there's no doubt that Harry Potter is razor-sharp, especially when it's under pressure - going fantastic with explosions and magic, impressive CGI-effects and fine characters revealing new sides of themselves. With the whole specter of characters from the earlier movies around (Harry (off course), Ron, Hermione, Albus Dumbledoor, Snape and so on) there are always new exciting characters showing off. Alastor Moody being the new teacher this year, with his rolling eye going wild, there's always the stunning universe of Potter taking loops back and forth with brilliant boldness.
Ron Weasley still being the comedian and being great acted by Rupert Grint steals a lot of the show when he's around, but still he doesn't kill Harry Potter's character - because the boy with the scar is a very interesting and amusing character, and we shall be thankful for that, because after all it's all about him really. But as said earlier, there's dozens of fantastic characters here; Maggie Smith's brilliant Minerva giving mature breed, Michael Gambon's Dumbledoor being the most powerful wizard of them all, Alan Rickman's genially Severus Snape lurking around, Robbie Coltrane's Hagrid amusing and entertaining as earlier - and this is just some of them.
HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE doesn't overrun Cuarón's ,PRIZONER OF AZKABAN, but it's the second best so far and truly delivers some of the most impressive action scenes and striking features so far.