Product: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Rating: 1.0
BAD BOOK, WORSE MOVIE!
GOBLET OF FIRE, as a book, was abysmal. Just awful! Easily the bloodiest of all of the Harry Potter series, GOBLET... boasted dismemberment, gore and death, all of which were transferred to the movie version. It's easy to forget that supposedly these books are supposed to be for fun. The book's plot, or lack thereof, was even scarier than the violence!But the storyline was the very least of my worries with this movie. The story is made even worse by the haphazard, on-again-off-again approach employed by the moviemakers in bringing it to the screen. Just blink and you'll think that an entirely different plot has stolen the screen. The film has absolutely no flow or transition. Jumpy and disjointed is the best that I can say about it.Add to that some of the silliest scenes to ever grace the big screen. First, there's Emma Watson's "Cinderella on the Stairs" scene. Just about as schmaltzy as it gets. Then there's Robbie Coltrane's nonsense as a lovesick Hagrid, courting a giantess who is at Hogwarts to chaperone team members from an all girl's school. And some of the dialog between Harry and Ron is so overpowered by their thick British dialects that subtitles might have helped.And to make things even worse, the acting just gets worse and worse. A wonderfully wicked cameo by Ralph Fiennes has some redeeming value. For that the movie gets my single star. Don't even get me started about the main characters.THE HORSEMAN