The Triwizard Tournament begins near the start of the film, but after the Quidditch World Cup, which takes place within a stadium so vast it makes the Senate Chamber in "Star Wars" look like a dinner theater.
The question is, who entered Harry's name, since Harry says he didn't? This is against the rules, since you have to be 17 to compete in Triwizardry, and Harry is only 14, but Dumbledore's hands are tied: What the Goblet wants, the Goblet gets. Three finalists are chosen by the Goblet of Fire, and then the Goblet spits out an unprecedented fourth name: Harry Potter's. The film is more violent, less cute than the others, but the action is not the mindless destruction of a video game it has purpose, shape and style, as in the Triwizard Tournament, which begins the film. Hogwarts School and indeed the entire structure of Harry's world is threatened by Voldemort's return to something approaching his potential powers, and the film becomes a struggle between the civilized traditions of the school and the dark void of Voldemortism. Although we glimpsed his face in "The Sorcerer's Stone," we see him in full on screen for the first time in "Goblet of Fire," and he does not disappoint: Hairless, with the complexion of a slug, his nostrils snaky slits in his face, he's played by Ralph Fiennes as a vile creature who has at last been rejoined by his Death Eaters, who were disabled by Harry's magic earlier in the series.
Is it fair to wonder if the series will continue to grow up with Harry, earning the R rating as he turns 17?Ĭertainly Lord Voldemort seems capable of limitless villainy. There is still at least a mail-owl, and what looks like a mail-raven (it may represent FedEx), but many of the twee touches of the earlier films have gone missing to make room for a brawnier, scarier plot. Harry ( Daniel Radcliffe) was just turning 13 in the previous movie, " Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" (2004), and the Potter series turns PG-13 with this installment.
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