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Directed by Mike Newell, the fourth installment to the Harry Potter series finds Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) wondering why his legendary scar -- the famous result of a death curse gone wrong -- is aching... read more read more... in pain, and perhaps even causing mysterious visions. Before he can think too much about it, however, Harry boards the train to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he will attend his fourth year of magical education. Shortly after his reunion with his best friends, Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson), Harry is introduced to yet another Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher: the grizzled Mad-Eye Moody (Brendan Gleeson), a former dark wizard catcher who agreed to take on the infamous "DADA" professorship as a personal favor to Headmaster Dumbledore (Michael Gambon). Of course, Harry's wishes for an uneventful school year are almost immediately shattered when he is unexpectedly chosen, along with fellow student Cedric Diggory (Robert Pattinson), as Hogwarts' representative in the Tri-Wizard Tournament, which awards whoever completes three magical tasks the most skillfully with a thousand-galleon purse and the admiration of the international wizard community. As difficult as it is to deal with his schoolwork, friendships, and the tournament at the same time (not to mention his feelings toward the ever unfathomable Professor Snape (Alan Rickman), Harry doesn't realize that the most feared wizard in the world, Lord Voldemort, is anticipating the tournament, as well. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi

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PG-13, 2 hr. 37 min.

Directed by: Mike Newell

Release Date: November 18, 2005

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  • TomBowler
    March 10, 2013
    TomBowler
    Action packed and much, much darker, this installment introduces a whole lot of new characters and one in particular in its one-hell-of-an ending. Full review later.
  • cosmo313
    January 18, 2013
    cosmo313
    Director Mike Newell takes the helm for this, the 4th entry in the Harry Potter series. I would have preferred that Alfonso Cuaron remain, but whatever.

    For his 4th year at Hogwarts, Harry finds himself unwillingly entered into the Tri-Wizards Tournament: a lauded, but quite dan... read moregerous competition between Hogwarts and two other European wizarding schools. Not only that, but he's also got to deal with his increasing hormones, as well as the fact that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named (aka Lord Voldemort) is potentially making a comeback.

    Having read the book, and enjoying it very much, I need to say that this film really isn't that stellar of an adaptation. Granted, the book is like 734 pages, and this film runs 157 minutes (with credits, so of course much trimming is needed. But I suppose that where the film fails to include all the little details (including many subplots and a few characters), it does decently where getting the broad strokes of the story are concerned, even though it did seem a tad bewildering and choppy at times. All in all though, it gets the point across, even if they could have done a slightly better job translation the page to the screen.

    The principle cast have returned, and they have gotten quite a firm grasp on the characters. The teenage performers are admittedly somewhat awkward, but it works in their favor as they and their characters are going through puberty, making the awkwardness a little more understandable. Welcome additions to the cast include Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort, Robert Pattinson as Cedric Diggory- one of the competitors in the tournament, and a wonderfully scene stealing turn from Brendan Gleeson as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, complete with false leg and a neat trick eye. Pattinson is actually pretty decent, and far more interesting here than in his later role in the Twilight series. Gleeson is a ham, and, while it is a deliciously fun performance, I think even more so in that regard would be the brief appearances by Miranda Richardson and David Tennant. Unfortunately, Oldman gets reduced to a far too brief cameo, and that's one of the few changes that actually really bugged me legitimately.

    The seeds of darkness were sowed with the previous entry, but they really start to bloom here, giving a foreshadowing of what is to come. As a result of the increasing dark subject matter, this became the first, though certainly not last, entry to get a PG-13 rating. There's still some whimsy and light hearted moments in places, but not as many as in the book.

    There's some great set pieces, strong effects, and some great cinematography here. This is some really stunning stuff, and I just love all that is done to really make this world come alive. John Williams is absent as composer, but what we get is still good, and it does provide a nice variation on Williams's theme.

    Overall, a flawed, but still really good film.
  • jlewis07
    December 19, 2012
    jlewis07
    After Azkaban, it was clear that this series was getting darker and more mature with each installment. It isn't as artfully realized and beautiful as Cuaron's vision of the Potter universe, but what Newell lacks in that area he more than makes up for in pure thrills and fun. Gobl... read moreet is a great time and the actors/actresses involved just kept getting better. This is a slight step back in the artful direction the series was taking after Cuaron, but a major step forward in pacing and entertainment value. This is one of the best books in the series and even though they had to cut out a bunch of the details, the movie does not suffer from it in my opinion. This is the installment I throw in if I just want to have a good time in a well thought-out fantasy world. Newell lacked the imagination much like Columbus, but his popcorn thrills were much obliged.
  • fb1442511448
    July 27, 2012
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    Fourth year in Hogwarts and things can only get darker and more dangerous from here. The final moments of this film really does push limits and brings Harry into even more ominous and threatening territory. 4.5/5
  • superclerk25
    March 19, 2012
    superclerk25
    Pretty good
  • fb1710827246
    February 10, 2012
    fb1710827246
    Nice try, but it deviates much too much from how HP should be, while its predecessors were intense, this one is intensely comical. In a good way it was entertaining, but certainly not how I'd like it to be.
  • spielberg00
    February 10, 2012
    spielberg00
    First PG-13 film in the Harry Potter series is extremely unfaithful to the source novel, but it does not skip every single detail and leave slight plot remaining a la JUMPER, per se. We could see that the author's dark twist in the saga was being made an omen by the third entry.... read more Now it's time to rev it up around five notches.

    The best thing (or worst thing, some might say) about HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE is that it marks the first flesh-and-bone appearance of Lord Voldemort. Even by the fourth entry, we don't know a great deal about him, but we know enough for a seven-part saga (with the seventh part broken into two). We know that he is still after Harry Potter, the boy who survived the night Voldemort murdered his parents and attempted to murder him (in case you aren't familiar with the story, which is a pity if you don't know that much).

    Still, this has solid acting and pulse-pounding fantasy scenes. A lot of us fear corn mazes, and near the end, there is an intense, blink-and-you're-dead-type, magical corn maze. Wow.
  • Raajay
    December 20, 2011
    Raajay
    Decent installment.
  • fb712836066
    October 25, 2011
    fb712836066
    Another great installment in the Harry Potter film series, The Goblet of Fire was quite an amazing flick and provided us, for the first time on screen, with the children as young adults. However, the film offers very little in comparison to the novel its adapted from and leaves ... read moreout many of the sub plots found in the book and much of its depth, If only this and Order of the Phoenix had been long films like the Deathly Hallows movies, then perhaps they would have been perfect.
  • scottgreen96
    October 25, 2011
    scottgreen96
    In my opinion the most interesting in the series of Harry Potter, must be the competition and tensity o the film.

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Critic Reviews

J. R. Jones
June 27, 2011
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader

A marked disappointment after Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, this fourth installment in the franchise is a 157-minute holding pattern. Full Review

February 9, 2006
Time Out

Goblet is deliciously dark, wickedly funny and superbly mounted. Full Review

Anthony Lane
November 21, 2005
Anthony Lane, New Yorker

[Newell] cannot do much about the slightly tired sadism that is creeping into the cracks of the Potter franchise.

Richard Roeper
November 21, 2005
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

The special effects are first rate but I think it's always going to be about the characters. And they're great characters. Full Review

David Edelstein
November 21, 2005
David Edelstein, Slate

It's always a treat to see what big-studio-franchise cash can produce in the way of top-flight British (and Irish) actors. Full Review

Peter Howell
November 18, 2005
Peter Howell, Toronto Star

Screenwriter Kloves deserves a tip of the wizard's hat for cutting Rowling's immense tome (636 pages) down to size, and for keeping the story moving despite a surfeit of characters and incidents. Full Review

Richard Corliss
November 18, 2005
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine

Not just an efficient babysitter but a wizard of a movie. Full Review

Connie Ogle
November 18, 2005
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald

The real hero of the fourth Harry Potter film isn't the teenage wizard but screenwriter Steve Kloves, who has magically transformed J.K. Rowling's bloated, 734-page novel into a more swiftly paced, en... Full Review

Lisa Kennedy
November 18, 2005
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post

Newell deftly mixes in sweet teenage angst and lighter moments of physical humor. Full Review

Robert Denerstein
November 18, 2005
Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News

This edition advances the Potter saga through the presentation of a variety of set pieces, some quite spectacular. And if the movie sometimes loses momentum, it contains enough grand sights and magica...

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    • Cedric Diggory: Dragons. They kill you know?
    • Harry Potter: What?
    • Cedric Diggory: Oh, don't worry, they only breath fire.
    • Lord Voldemort: Welcome, my friends. Thirteen years it's been, and yet, here you stand as if it were only yesterday. I confess myself disappointed. Not one of you tried to find me. Crabbe! Macnair! Goyle! Not even you, Lucius.
    • Lucius Malfoy: My Lord, had I detected any sign, a whisper of your whereabouts.
    • Lord Voldemort: Oh there were signs, my slippery friend, and more than whispers.
    • Lucius Malfoy: I assure you, my Lord, I have never renounced the old ways. The face I have been obliged to present since your absence. That is my true mask.
    • Minerva McGonagall: What are you doing?
    • Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody: Just teaching.
    • Minerva McGonagall: Wait. Is that a student?
    • Ron Weasley: What the bloody hell was that?
    • Harry Potter: Dragons. That's our first task.
    • Cedric Diggory: Are you serious?
    • Hermione Granger: You better see Hagrid.
    • Harry Potter: Well you can tell-
    • Hermione Granger: I'm not an owl!
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