Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

2005 • 157 minutes

About this movie

It's Harry Potter's fourth term at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft andWizardry! Harry, Ron and Hermione look forward to the international Quidditch finals. Harry dreams of spending time with the alluring Cho Chang. He wants to be a normal 14-year-old wizard . . . But Harry is not normal--even by wizarding standards. This term, for the first time in hundreds of years, a competition will be held between three schools of wizardry, and contestants will be magically chosen for the very dangerous event. Now, as Harry's lightning scar burns, indicating the evil presence of Lord Voldemort, the Goblet of Fire makes its final selection for the competition--Harry Potter.

Ratings and reviews

I'm reading the books with my daughter now and when we finish each, we watch the movie. It's hard to squeeze a 700+ page book down to 2.5 hours of movie, so, so much is left out, and the movie feels very rushed in order to get in as much as it can. I would urge anyone who hasn't read the books to read them as they are SOOO much richer. This movie is ok for the effects and to get some visuals to some of the characters and things we only used our imaginations to conjure before. They did a decent job with depicting these visually. Unfortunately so many of characters are like cardboard in the movie compared to the book due to the time limitations that preclude much character development. They also actually change some things in the movies both because of expediency but some for no apparent reason - for example Hermione breaking down and crying after confronting Ron after the ball, when in the book she simply is mad and stormed off. It's too bad they couldn't get agreements like Peter Jackson to stretch single Harry Potter Books into 3 movies to do them more justice, but then I suppose you'd have 21 movies or even more!

I've read the series several times and the same can be said for the movies. Yes, the movies are a "diet" version of the books but they still capture the meaning and everything Rowling wants you to know. Anyone that watches any movie after reading any book that it's based on, is going to be disappointed because they feel like elements were left out. Obviously. Take it with a grain of salt and watch the movie for what it is, a diet version of the book. Still love the Goblet of Fire, movie and book alike.

I had no idea how the snot they were going to get this ridiculously long book trimmed down to make a decent movie version. However, it seems like Alfonso has taught the Harry Potter world much, and that is that J.K. Rowling is wordy. Take out half of her "plots" and you still have the utmost core of her brilliant fantasy world. I really enjoyed this film a lot more than I thought I would; I wasn't too hot on the book, but this movie really made me enjoy the story a lot more (ironically, those that really enjoyed the book seemed to dislike this movie a little more; to me this is just more fuel for the "wordy Rowling" theory). It's dark, disturbing, funny, and actually manages to show the teen world in an un-annoying fashion. Not many films can lay claim to that. While I dearly miss John Williams' score, Patrick Doyle keeps the British mentality throughout the film in music well enough. This one is decidedly more British than the last three, and rightfully so as it seems Rowling infects her books and characters with more of their own culture as she goes along.