OK, Whatever.

Rating: 10/10 (29 November 2005)

First, let me say this. If you're looking for the movie to "be" the book, pull your head out. It isn't gonna be. It never is, it can't. You can do stuff in movies that you can't in books, and vice versa. So for all you "Harry Potter" fans that are whining about it, grow up. It's a rendition of the movie. Someday you'll get your way and you can have them redone, but it'll be your budget and you'll get to figure out what to cut so you can keep your job. All in all, I'd say this was an excellent film. Incidentally, I've read all of the books too. Several times each, actually.
Second, if you're looking for the movie to get darker "in a fun way" as one comment reads, I'd recommend pulling your head out but it's in so far you may as well just push it the rest of the way. This is a dark story. By book 4, it's not "fun" dark anymore. Book 5 gets worse. And book 6 worse yet. I imagine the last one will be downright scary. Not for young kids. Enough for your pretty dreams of fun scary. Go back to your smurf cartoons, that pesky Gargamel is looking for Smurfette again and just might get her! Third, from another comment, Dumbledore didn't grab Harry around the neck and shake him. Get your eyes checked. But it was a very scary sequence, and I thought he acted appropriately. Remember that while Harry is just a student, the situations he's involved in are life-and-death for the WHOLE WIZARDING WORLD. I fully expected Dumbledore to act a little nervous. Especially since it was Dumbledore's own magic that was supposed to stop this thing from even happening - and he'd had a previous student that did things that scared Dumbledore too, didn't he? Tom Riddle what? It was also necessary to show how everyone was shocked and not just a little freaked out at the fact that HARRY's name got put in the goblet, and the director had limited time and people to do that with. Certainly Dumbledore was the ONLY choice in the situation he was in, he was in charge - can you see Snape sidestepping Dumbledore to confront Harry? How about McGonagall? Remember that only teachers were present (well, teachers... and Crouch).
Fourth, to the guy that complained about computer graphics, "ho hum, did that"..... The future is going to suck for you. Really. Get over it. What did you want, a real dragon? I suppose you've got one? Or maybe they could cartoon him in like the dragon in Pete's Dragon. That'd be cool. Or maybe a group of guys in a dragon suit! Yeah! OK, no. Computer graphics are the most realistic you're gonna get, so take a chill pill and until you come up with something better just deal with the fact that technology hasn't caught up to you and your prissiness.
The director did a fabulous job of making the situation as tense as it needed to be. A student died, and he didn't pull punches on the fact that he died WITH HIS EYES OPEN. That was a really good addition because it just added to the stark reality Harry is facing at the end of the book.
There are problems, clearly, but I'd say this is probably the best Harry Potter movie to date. Very, very pleased with it, and glad that it's grown up.