Disappointing...

Rating: 4/10 (31 August 2006)

Here's the run-down: --SUMMARY-- Harry Potter is a 14 year old Wizard who goes to a school for Wizardry called Howgwarts. By now, he has been attending Hogwarts for 4 years. This year, the school will play host to the Triwizard tournament, and two other schools one from France and the other from Bulgaria, will be competing against the school's
contestants. You have to be in your seventh year at Hogwarts in order to compete. By filling out your name on a piece of paper, and dropping it into the Giblet of fire, your name may or may not be selected when the contestants are chosen. Only 1 from each school. Things seem all well and dandy until Harry Potter's name pops out of the Goblet... even though a Hogwarts student has already been selected. the problem? You can't even get close to the Goblet unless you are in your seventh year. Could this be a plot by Harry Potter's Arch-nemesis, Lord Voldemort? --END SUMMARY-- ... Where do I begin? Ooh! I know. This movie... sucks. Great plot, right? the Novel was amazing. Mike Newell failed horribly at making this movie... simply put. I honestly think he missed half the damn story... and what he missed he just replaced with things that never happened. What happened to S.P.E.W.? What happened to the dursley's? Why are they NEVER wearing their robes, only preppy clothes? Tell me why they spent more time on the scene where Daniel Radcliffe takes a bath then on the actual plot? The movie was not only short, but also missed several important events. Where was Dobby? What about Mr. Crouches house elf? Where was Sirius? Why did they not go to his cave and see Buckbeak??
What about the part where The Weasley Twins expand Dudley's tongue? Where was that? Why didn't they show ANY of the classes except Defense against the Dark Arts? This movie is WAY WAY too Hollywood and makes the Novel seem like utter crap. They spent more time on set design and makeup and clothes than they did the actual script. It's 1994. Not 2006. Also, Hermione was in tears half the movie. Anyone notice that? Constantly flipping out. the movie also missed a lot of plot development points, such as the relationship between Harry and Cho. Only for the people who don't want to read the novel... or only for the true hardcore HP fans who would only get it just to have the entire set of movies. Order of Pheonix better be... well, better.
~Mason