Wow!

Rating: 9/10 (21 November 2005)

You may never quite see a movie quite like this one. The constant worrying of how well Mike Newell will do on this movie is now over. Mike Newell took his own route on this movie, though still building off what Cauron and Columbus did, yet improving it. All book readers will still be surprised by what this movie has in store for them since it separates the books from the movies.
The movie starts with the necessary Voldemort/Wormtail scene and quickly changes to the amazing and breath taking look at the Quidditch World Cup. It quickly shifts to the main story of Hogwarts and the Triwizard tournament.
All aspects of the teenage life are shown throughout the movie from love, quarreling, and schoolwork. This gives the movie a more realistic feeling and shows that these wizards are normal people, but with magical powers.
Characters such as Mad-Eye Moody, Fleur Delacour, and Rita Skeeter were cast perfectly to the parts.
All the action scenes were amazing and actually thrilling with top rate special effects. All three magical tasks are exciting and believable. The graveyard scene was all that it should be and quite frightening which made this movie earn it's PG 13 rating.
My only words of criticism is this. More time should have been spent on the Quidditch World Cup and the three tasks instead of having all the unnecessary time spent on all the Yule Ball. It made the middle of the movie move really slowly while the beginning and end went fast. The Yule Ball does not add near as much to the plot as the Quidditch World Cup or the the three tasks.