Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Over Thanksgiving weekend Ricky and I went to visit some friends for a wonderful holiday dinner. The plan was that after dinner we’d all go to the Imax theater in Tampa to see the newest installment of the Harry Potter series. Someone at the party got the bright idea that we could download a bootleg copy from the internet and watch it there. So an hour or so later we started “watching” Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The downloaded version was such bad quality that I dozed off and came to every now and then. By the end of the movie I couldn’t tell you anything that happened. So…

A couple weeks ago Ricky and I went to a real movie theater to see the movie. Shortly after it started I said, “Does any of this look familiar to you?” “Nope!” was Ricky’s reply.

The movie started out with a bang and kept a fast pace throughout. None of that boring crap at the Dursley’s house at the the beginning.

This year Hogwart’s has been selected to host the Triwizard Tournament and Harry is selected as a competitor. The wizards have to complete three extremely dangerous tasks. In the end one will be named champion.

This is a coming of age story filled with raging hormones and teenage angst. Harry seems scared more by the prospect of asking a girl to attend the ball than he is by the daunting task of competition in the tournament.

The Harry Potter movies seem to be getting better with each installment. The acting is better, the stories are better, the special effects are better.

Two thumbs up!

[Note: this is a repost, the original was lost in the the database server crash.]