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Thursday, December 01, 2005

Harry Potter and The Goblet Of Fire (2005)

The new school year at Hogwart's brings the Tri-Wizard Competition. This brings in students from other wizarding schools to enter: some fashion plates from France and tough guys from Belgium. Only students 17 and older are allowed to compete. Then the Goblet of Fire gives up an unlikely name--14 year old Harry Potter.

It is suspected that Harry cheated to get his name in, but the magical goblet would not have allowed anyone under 17 years old to get near it. Harry finds he has bigger problems than worrying about whether his friends and other classmates think he's underhanded. The Tri-Wizard Games are very dangerous. A guy could get killed. What Harry doesn't realize is that is exactly what someone intends to happen. Harry's mortal enemy, Voldemort, is out to finish the young wizard off by any means necessary.

The special effects are nice, and the plot acknowledges that Harry, Hermoine and Ron are growing up. Harry and Ron fret over asking girls to a major dance, while Hermoine deals with an admirer of her own. The headmaster of the school, Dumbledore, and the teachers at the school are not as featured as much as they were in the previous films. The exception is Mad-Eye Moody, a paranoid sort who is the new Dark Arts teacher. Even bratty Malfoy, who is always picking on Harry and his friends, is not featured prominently. Miranda Richardson has fun playing a catty newspaper journalist who makes Harry uncomfortable.

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