Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fiyah Movie Review

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Title: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fiyah

Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Director: Mike Newell

Based on: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

IMDb rating: 7,6/10

Rotten tomatoes rating: 88%

My rating: I <3-ed it.

Again, short review, since I'm a little busy. (I have to get some sleep, because I'm going to have a no-sleep sleepover soon, which means that my reading time is limited to daytime only.) I loved this movie, actually a bit more than Prisoner of Azkaban. In PoA, the plot building and conversations felt a bit rushed to me, but they did manage to include a lot of the original material from the book. In GoF, I felt like it was the other way around: everything felt a little more drawn-out, but they had to cut out A LOT. Since I usually care more about HOW the scenes are executed than WHICH scenes appear in the movie, I prefer GoF to PoA. Despite that, the Goblet of Fire movie had some plot holes that the book didn't have, because certain parts were different.

Side note: To all parents who ever visit this blog (probably a total of 0), if you're doubting where you should draw the line with the Harry Potter series now that all the books are out and kids of all ages have access to them, this is the spot. The first three are okay to watch with eleven year olds (+ parents, of course), but this is not something for eleven year olds. Just trying to spare you midnight trips to bedrooms because of certain nightmares.

To avoid copy right problems (which I don't understand one bit about), this frame is from the video Everything Wrong With Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by Cinemasins. Watch their videos, they're hilarious.

Spoilers down below:

Casting choices:

Can we just talk about this? Like, for a second.

Yes, for you dedicated HP fans, Goblet of Fire was way before the first Twilight movie, but for me, a poor soul who was just five years old at the best when this movie came out, this is a complete absurdity. Of course, the internet has wasted no time and has seized every chance it got to crack jokes about this, but the strange thing is... He's not a terrible actor. I mean, I don't know the first thing about acting abilities, but he seemed the way Cedric was in the book. Nice and smiling and Hufflepuff-ish. (Oh, Hufflepuff, the only House with a name so ridikullus I still fail to spell it correctly.) But let's not dwell on casting choices, let's dwell on another much-explored issue fans have with this movie.

As you might have noticed, I'm also keen to exploit this unforgiveable mistake. It's so not Dumbledore. It would be like Elizabeth Banks bursting into tears when Katniss volunteers for Prim in the first movie or Tori sobbing all over Tris when she tells her she's Divergent. It just doesn't make any sense whatsoever to have Dumbledore react like that.

Okay, enough nitpicking, let's get to work.

As a movie, this storyline didn't make any sense. Like, it was a total mess, the coincidental timing was terrible, the characters act illogical, the movie wanted you to be team Ron way to badly (but let's face it, I even noticed this in PoA). In that way, it kind of reminds me of the end of Catching Fire. If you don't know what happens in the book, it makes absolutely no sense. Not even a little. When you read the book and discover the motives of the characters, the fictional universe is at peace again. I felt like Goblet of Fire suffered from this. However, that doesn't mean I didn't luve the movie. The acting was good, the action was badass, the ending was scary and sad, and I just love seeing this world come to life. Come to think of it, I'm not done nitpicking.

Okay, now I'm done.

Can I just say that I love how Voldemort looks in this movie? He's got this super malicious look in his eyes the whole time when he's talking to Harry. Yes, in the book the whole conversation and him forcing Harry to fight him was way more intense, but I felt like seeing it on screen already made it very real, and since there are still younger audiences watching Harry Potter, it's good they changed it. So this was my review of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fiya, I'll see you again after I've watched Order of the Phoenix.