Not like the book, but well done.

Rating: 9/10 (19 November 2005)

The movie was not very much like the book. I am a Harry Potter fanatic, so I know all of the books pretty well, and this movie did not follow the fourth. The parts of the book that they kept (ex. that there were three tasks, parts of the Yule Ball, etc.) they stayed pretty true. However, they completely kept out Hagrid's giantess mother, the veelas, and the obstacles in the third task. I think that the movie was good, though, because it displayed the main points of the book, and could stand alone as a movie. It gave the viewer the general plot and was well done. I also liked how it hinted at some parts of the plot in books 5 and 6. Also- the graveyard scene was AMAZING. It truly couldn't have been done better.