Magical memories should not be rushed but savored

Rating: 7/10 (18 November 2005)

Harry Potter and the goblet of fire, happens to be what most movie fans care to see when going to a movie based on a book. Mind you it is NOWHERE near perfect, but a GREAT and WONDERFUL delight to the HORRBILE, and devastating catastrophe that was created last year. Thank god Warner Brothers has possibly stopped hiring third rated independent directors to film a franchise movie series such as this. For people who have just tuned in to join us, my last and wonderful review helped a lot of people. I write my reviews for the non-potter lovers and followers. people who have yet to read the wonderful books, and thought that Prisoner of Azkaban was a great movie.
P.o.a., or as i think it should be named, ( a LOOSE interpretation of Harry potter. or P.O.S. for short.), was by far the worst movie made last year. Why you may ask, if you can answer these two questions you will know why there was a great , and tremendous task lying ahead of Mike Newell for this far better film. 1. who is Cedric Diggory, 2. who is Cho Chang. These are all questions that should have been answered but were totally omitted in the last film! So, Mike Newell has a tremendous task to catch us up to speed on the answers to these questions.
Daniel Radcliff gives us a much better performance, only to have it highly topped by Emily Watson, who shined like a jewel. I cant wait to see these 2 in there upcoming non-potter films. Ruppert Grint gives us an OK performance, only due to bad writing all he pretty much gets to say is( "bloody hell", and "no way") Michael Gambon was dramatically better as Dumbledore in this film. No longer a bumbling biker dude but a true headmaster.
The one gleaming highlight that i love about films like these is the need to find new people to play new characters who will fit in great with the older cast members. we have the introduction of Stanislav Ianevski, who plays the Bulgarian quidditch star and student of Durmstang, as Viktor Krum (has all of 6 words in the movie). next we have Robert Pattinson who plays the charming and likable, Cedric Diggory( cant wait till he gets a lead in a movie, i see him as the next Pierce Brosnan, 20 years from now the next James Bond actually.)((2009 update - i see Robert already has great career with Twilight, glad to see my predictions coming true!)) Then there is Clémence Poésy who plays Fleur Delacour, Ron's big crush from Beau Baton Academy( she has all of 20 words ). Last and not least of the newcomers of the younger cast, Katie Leung , who plays a delightful Cho Chang, Harry's first crush and opposing house quidditch team seeker. For the adult cast we have the extremely talented Miranda Richardson (her part should have been extended to show the torment she had in Harry's year). last but not least we have the chilling, Ralph Fiennes, playing "the bad dude". (he was very well at playing Lord Voldemort, but once again, his scene was rushed and should have been extended)
The cinematography was MUCH better than POA( which looked like one long art-house film/ gap commercial. microphones and other flaws seen throughout the film.) The set design was excellent.( even thought they use then NEW style of Hogwarts from POA, which in POA looked more like a church graveyard than a castle of grandeur) They should revert back to the older Hogwarts in the next movies. Although the use of colors is extremely apparent in the film. Even in the Hogwarts uniforms ( YES! they actually wore the uniforms in the movie, no more gap jeans and t-shirts like POA) which made it much easier to feel like Hogwarts.
The other bad part of the movie, was the mispronounces of some of the magic words and names that they use in the film. my suggestion would be that they should have the actors NOT say the words, and just point their wands, and let the action happen.( as a potter fan it makes me cringe when magic words or names are mispronounced. plus as a rule of magic, that can lead to terrible results. LOL)
For a book to movie translation, i give this one a C-. Much better than POA, but nowhere as good as the first two movies. The movie was rushed, and should have been extended for and hour more. or as was first presented to Warner brothers two separate 2 hour movies. ( if your going to do it, do it right. ) there were no Dursleys,which would have been funny as hell to see the Weasleys meet the Dursleys. They could have show that, and would have made the movie 5 minutes longer. absolutely NO QUIDDITCH, from the world cup?!? what is going on here?!? THAT would have been something people would have talked about for weeks. And the omission of Ludo Bagman from the movie?!?! what gives?
For a movie for people to go watch for entertainment, i give it a B- . This movie really, truly had the potential to be a movie of the year type film. Once again, TOO RUSHED. everyone will agree to this once you see the movie. Also you never get a chance to get into the characters. or the intensity of the storyline (why cant more people take a hint from Lord of the Rings?!? 11 Oscars isn't BAD, since it was only nominated for 11) millions of fans, moviegoers, and critics CAN'T be THAT wrong.