Don't understand all the applauding this movie gets

Rating: 4/10 (6 December 2005)

This movie is slightly worse than the Prisoner of Azkaban, which puts it in last place in my book. It suffers from all the problems they had in the third movie. Namely, they didn't bother telling the story. They just went from scene to scene, trying to get all the action elements in under the time allotted.
I don't know if it counts as a spoiler to tell you what's not in a movie, but here is a short list of what you won't see: Qwidditch; goblins (or their gold); the name Luto Bagman; Dobbie, Winky, or S.P.E.W.; Bill, Charlie, Molly, or Percy Weezly; blast-ended scroots; a class besides Defense Against the Dark Arts; Rita Skeeter as a bug; any mention of Bertha Jawkins; the marauders map; the trial of Barty Crouch Jr or his cohorts; any explanation of how he got out of Azkaban.
In other words, they left out all of the story. In it's place, they expanded the action to include an extended dragon combat. They made Moaning Myrtle much more perverse than the book did.
If you want to go see mindless action, go find some children's movie that isn't based on a piece of literature. But if you are looking for a good adaptation of The Goblet of Fire you will be disappointed. And if you didn't read the book, or see the first three movies you will be so lost as to what's going on that you'll be bored out of your mind.