Everything I could have expected

Rating: 10/10 (22 November 2005)

I cannot count on one hand how many times I had read the book. I absolutely LOVE the book and I had very high expectations for the movie. I agonized with myself how in the heck were they going to slim it down to under 3 hours, but they did it. Like the last movie, I expected major plot aspects to be left out of this movie. I feel that Prisoner of Azkaban (POA) left to much important details out to focus on other things. Don't get me wrong though it was a good movie but don't get me started on what they should have included.
Goblet of Fire (GOF) was everything I could have expected it to be, even more so! Granted...if we could have it our way...we could included absolutely everything from the book but then the movie would be 6 hours long. If you had to cut something for the sake of making a movie the crew of GOF did it appropriately.
GOF was surprisingly upbeat though. I expected it to be darker (scarier) than POA in may ways. But I found myself laughing very often. Which seems like a great set-up for Order of the Phoenix as far as the Weasly twins are concerned. For those of you who know the books and have seen GOF than you know what I am talking about.
GOF had great special effects and Mike Newell did a wonderful job directing the actors to appropriately portray their characters. It's a tough job and it couldn't have been done better. A huge 10 for me!