Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

[Madison]

I finally got a chance to run out and see this -- though I wasn't able to get a ticket to the IMAX theater and instead had to settle for Cinerama. Cinerama is huge, mind you, but it's not IMAX.

It's a great movie, whether compared to the others in the series or movies in general. I will see it again (in IMAX, next time!) for certain.

I enjoyed everything about it, but particularly its pacing. It does a fantastic job of shifting its mood from light-hearted teen angst to intense, emotional dramatics.

I haven't read this novel, so I can't compare it to that, nor do I think I would want to. After enjoying the first three films, I sat down with the first three novels and read much of them clean through. They are children's books, no matter what people say, and I found them to be both boring and simplistic. The movies are far more entertaining.