A disappointment and a 4-5

Rating: 5/10 (14 June 2004)

*possible spoiler, no detail though, spoiler ends at end, where it say s "***end spoiler***"*Much like every sequel this one was by far inferior to its prequels. The movie started out with Harry using a wand in the middle of summer and continued by uncle Vernon telling him about five minutes later that he's not allowed to. Then the movie continues it's wonderful streak of mess-ups by making it clear that they're skipping out the first few chapters and condensing everything before the eventful dinner into less than two minutes. After that when Harry gets on the night bus it doesn't make objects jump out of the way, it just goes out of the way itself, through aids of time-warping magic. Shortly after harry has a Quidditch game in GOGGLES, where a few people are hit by thunder during which dementors come FLYING in. They mess up the order of all of the events, cutting out many completely and at times inserting ones that were never there. The scene with Lupin turning into a werewolf was completely ruined, along with the imitation of the werewolf.
***end spoiler*** This brings me to the few final and most crucial points, not only was Lupins werewolf self completely ruined, so was his human being. In the movie, he has completely brown hair, with no white streaks, an overly large nose, no wrinkles and a decent wardrobe. He furthermore doesn't seem to radiate energy and acts like what Sirius is supposed to in the fourth book. The rest of the actors aren't any better and all of their acting looks like a skit one would prepare in school. Even as sequels go, this one is at an all-time low, it's worse than the memorable T3 and Matrix: Revolutions. Much as it hurts me to say this as a Harry Potter fan, because of this movie I probably won't see the Goblet of Fire unless I hear some very good recommendations from some VERY reliable sources. For all of the reasons mentioned above I give this movie an undeserved 5/10 simply on the principle that it's part of the Harry Potter series.