harry potter and the goblet of fire

2/5 stars
daniel radcliffe

"crappy times ahead harry"
before my review i would like to give you a history of my opinion of the juggernaut that is harry potter. the first movie was somewhat magical, a well written well acted rendition that followed jk rowling's book almost to the letter. I eagerly anticipated the next one like everyone else, but, unlike everyone else the second movie left me a bit sour. Instead of using the same "follow what rowling wanted" style this movie went off on its own creating a thriller that disintegrated into god awful cornball acting and scripting and scenes diliberatly stolen from better movies.(watch jurrassic park and then the womping willow scene and you'll wonder why speilburg didnt sue.)he third movie was a little better due to the fact that it was incredibly funny, but other than that it was shallow and devoid of feeling or puberty.
so here we are with a fourth and final warning about what happens when you dont follow the freaking book. taking the very, very, barrne core of the story and tacking on pathetic scenes that are supposed to show puberty are the main problems of this sorry potter adaptation. Now as you may have noticed i have mentioned puberty quite alot in the last couple sentences and heres why: all i hear from reviewers about the lack of puberty is that rowling didnt mess around with overt sex. which is fine, there is no nead to turn the kiddie exploits of Harry into R rated sex scandles. but if you cut out so much puberty as to make it feel like it dosent exsist at all or to only insert it into one part of the movie as to make the rest look out of place, you have some serious problems. Fortunatly it manages to really pick up in the middle, its hard to believe its even the same movie. It mixes light comedy, puberty, and roller coaster like action that offers a glimpse of what made the first movie great.
Unfortunatly it ends with terrible melodramatic acting which is only good for a sick laugh(you think im cruel but try not to burst out laughing when cedrics father yells noooooooo!!!! like a mirror to the summer's bad star wars movie.). i saw a superman trailer before the movie and found it brutally pointless, why bring out the man of steel when you've already got harry potter on stage. during the course of this movie you never think Harry can experience any type of pain, or if he does, it will fix itself without Harry learning a bloody thing. But what really has me comparing Harry to the protector of the innocent is that even if he is about to win or do something great he will stop and help a commpetetor in danger, not the typical mind of a teenager.
All in all this movie makes me wonder where harry potter has to go. With so many genres all screwed up by this series(thriller, comedy, romance) will we have to go through a harry potter musical before the producers decide to actually go back to the freaking book??
if you disegree with my review then post a commentwoth your opinion, but do me the favor of rewatching this movie and at least considering what i have siad about it. thank you,
nick