best Potter so far

Rating: 9/10 (19 November 2005)

I went to the cinema with great expectations. I was so happy that finally the long waiting was over, I sat down in that big, cuddly cinema chair and was curious about to start it. After I had to bore 45 min of advertisement the movie started. The first impression was really good - the snake, which sidles through the graveyard, Harry's dream of the old man, who dies in the Riddel's house by the curse of Voldemort. But than Harry wakes up at the Weasleys burrow, one minute later he is at the Quidditch tournament and 3 minutes later it is already over. In one moment they celebrate the win of Ireland over Bulgaria, in the next Harry lies on the ground and watches at the dark mark (?? don't how it's named in English?? - dark mark sounds kind of funny). And soon he is on the train to Hogwarts. The beginning of the film seems a bit snatchy. Everything is only shortly named and shown. But with the beginning of the triwizard tournament, the movie gets started. The single tasks are really good display. The computer animations are good. The fight against the dragon is exciting, the mermaids are ugly and the maze had a touch of creepy. I waited for wicked and bad creatures, but this task was also a bit too much shortened. The middle of the movie is very very funny. Look out for Filch and Neville. The end is again really good displayed and all in all it's a short but nice adaptation of the book and the best Potter-Movie so far, especially because of the humor.
(the actors are their bests, but the German synchronization is never as good as the original)