Lacked the heart of the first three

Rating: 7/10 (27 July 2006)

I walked into this movie, expecting very little. And that's what I got. The acting was fine, the affects where magnificent, but it lacked the heart of the first three films.
A lot of the story was left out, so I was left with the duty of explaining to my parents for hours what REALLY happened. They kept a very thin story line to this movie.
The fourth book always leaves me with the feeling of "ooh! The plot thickens!" The movie was quite different. It only showed half of what happened and it left you wondering what was going on. I was confused, had to go back and read the book.
I was even more disappointed when the beginning music started, I was thinking "What the crap!? Am I in the right movie??" I realized right off the bat that John Williams had not done the music for this film, and that disappointed me greatly. It disappointed me even more when The Weird Sisters started playing "Do the Hippogriff".
The artistic aspect was taken away from this film, it was all action and when it wasn't it was boring and slow. It put in scenes that weren't in the book and left out scenes in the book that should have been in the movie!
The entrance of the two visiting schools was ridiculous. It didn't show enough of Cedric, so his death is just like "Oh, okay... Why's Harry flipping out? He had like... 5 lines...". Hermione's dress was supposed to be blue. They think the fans don't pay attention? We do, I'm sorry, it wasn't a pink tango dress! It was blue dress robes! This is what I have to say to Mike Newell; Kill the beast!
I hated the Dumbledore flipping out on Harry scene. It was completely out of character and uncalled for. Dumbledore would never do something so ridiculous and shake Harry when in "Order of the Phoenix" he clearly tells Umbridge to "Not man handle my students". Yeah, just hope they leave that line out or they'll make Dumbledore look the idiot even more than they already have.
This movie was a real let down, Voldamort was awful, I couldn't believe his character at all. I always imagined him more... Scary? Lets just hope they don't ruin the next Harry Potter film. But I won't get my hopes up.