Fun, but I'm a fan. Weakest of the four. Needs more heart.

Rating: 5/10 (19 November 2005)

Harry enters a grand wizarding tournament, but is in over his head.
First of all, I enjoyed this movie, and I want to see it again on video. I am a fan however, and no one who has not read the book could ever follow the story -- especially the end. So if your a fan you should see it. They do a nice job with certain scenes, and it is fun to see them.
On the other had, it is not a good movie. It does not hang together as a story for a non-fan. The characters don't engage enough. Everyone is expected to know the whole backstory and even recognize the actors from the other movies.
This movie strikes me as a marathon to pack in as much plot as possible, and it does not have enough heart. I liked some of the story simplifications, but it needed more interplay between the characters.
The young actors have been good and continue to be. The best part of this movie was the dance scene.
This is the weakest of the four movies so far. That may be because the three contests of the story are hard to make into a movie. I would have trimmed it down to two contests or simply made two movies out of it.