Great action and humour! But not much overall story development.

Rating: 7/10 (29 February 2020)

This movie was all about Harry, Ron and Hermione. They got all the screen time. Which was good and funny at times, with Ron and Hermione having some awkward interactions. However this was at the expense of telling the overall story of good vs evil. Both in the book and in the movie the dark magic just comes in too late for me. This needs to be present in a much clearer way. Harry has the odd moment of his scar burning and his reocurring dream.
But the movie seems to waste a lot of time being interested in the dynamics of the main trio. Snape gets hardly any time, Moody gets one scene teaching, Dumbledore is here and there. The champions of the tornament have literally one line each. Karkaroff has no part in it. It really is just Harry, Ron and Hermione, which is enjoyable, but limits the movie from being great!
A shame to see Dobby and Hermione's scene with her wanting to help house elf's cut, alongside Harry falling on the trick step and nearly getting caught by Snape, until Moody comes along. The movie did Harry's scene with the dragon way better though, its pretty much a non-event in the book. Although they rush many parts of Harry's training and development, alongside his being coached by Sirius and just assume that Harry now knows how to do these new charms and spells from reading it with Hermione. But, the movie is already 2 1/2 hours long so something has to give right? (I'd say less of the trio and more development of the overall arc of good vs evil).
Ron was great at the Yule Ball, the costume design was hilarious!
Overall, its enjoyable, but not great.