Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [M]

Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts school is set to be a year that no student will forget, as the school has been nominated to host a legendary wizarding event: the Triwizard Tournament. But underneath the festivity of the event, there is a sinister plot to make the worst happen.

Here we go people, this is the first Harry Potter film that gets the M rating, and rightly so. From here, everything goes from dark to darker and there is sinister plotting around every corner, and not just revenge plotting.

Harry has had a wonderful summer, having stayed with the Weaselys and gone to see the Quidditch World Cup, but things take dark turn downhill as, after the Cup game, the camps where people are staying get attacked by the followers of Lord Voldemort: Death Eaters. From amongst the fire and ash, someone creates an image in the sky that gets the magical community into a great panic: the Dark Mark, Voldemort's mark. With all this going on, Harry returns to Hogwarts for his fourth year of school with a lot on his mind. As they return to the castle, the students learn that Hogwarts has been chosen to host a legendary event: the Triwzard Tournament, a magical competition in which 3 schools compete with 1 student representing each school. With only 17 year-olds allowed to enter, Harry's good reputation around the school takes a battering when he gets selected to compete alongside another Hogwarts champion. What makes matters worse is that Harry never even entered his name. Underneath the festivity and the spirit of the tournament is a sinister plot to make the worst happen.

They are no longer "kids" in this film, they are young adults. Heading into even more emotional territory than they did in The Prisoner of Azkaban, the central trio give their best perfomances to date, having arguments, fights, nerves, and a couple of major fall-outs. This is where you really notice how close they all are with one another. It's really gorgeous.

As I mentioned before, the film is rated M and I am here to tell parents of young kiddies that, really these stopped being 'kids' movies from the third one. Here we're dealing with dragons, vicious merpeople, unfogivable curses, and a new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher who has one real eye and one magical eye. I repeat, NOT for young children. We're also dealing with mature themes such as boys interested in girls and that horrible issue of asking people out. The characters' reactions to some of these situations are really quite funny.

Goblet of Fire is directed by Mike Newell, the third director that Harry Potter has had. I don't know why, but I really like the way this movie was filmed. It was much smoother than the third one and much more mature than the first and second. I suppose as the characters grow, the way the movies are filmed grows too in order to get the messages across.

As with every Harry Potter film, we have a few new faces:

Miranda Richardson is Rita Skeeter

Robert Pattinson is Cedric Diggory

David Tennant is Barty Crouch Jr.

Roger Lloyd-Pack is Barty Crouch Sr.

Brendan Gleeson is "Mad Eye" Moody

Frances de la Tour is Madame Maxime

Clemance Poesy is Fleur Delacour

Stanislav Ianevsky is Viktor Krum

Katie Leung is Cho Chang

Predag Bjelac is Igor Karkaroff

and Ralph Fiennes is ... we can't give too much away, can we?

Filled with heaps of action, romance, adolescant arkwardness, tears, fears, and even a tragic death, The Goblet of Fire is the fantastic fourth movie in the Harry Potter series, guaranteed to have you on the edge of your seat every time!