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It's Harry Potter, so I lurved it, of course. But...
My only pet-peeve was the complete lack of an actual World-Cup match. That felt really WRONG. Everything else they handled quite well, though I do think they gave one too many clues that Moody was Barty JR. They had the tongle-flickering scenes too close together, which I felt made it too obvious. Otherwise, I thought it was WONDERFUL.
I thought Voldemort would be a little thinner and understated, almost physically weak, and more silently-hissing/menacing, but Ralph did a great job of convincing me. Wormtail should have whimpered and sobbed a bit more. They did an excellent job of making the death of Cedric very sudden and painful, emotionally. They didn't try to soften the death for the audience. I started crying when Harry's parents came out during Priori Incantatem, and was continually a water-works until Moody led Harry away after he returned with the Cedric and the Cup.
It's a tough call for me which I like better, this one or PoA, because I love the European art-film feel of PoA, but this one was much more emotionally gripping, much more adult (well, teen, anyway). This is seriously a series that just gets better and better (with the arguable exception that CoS wasn't as good as SS.)
I can't wait until OotP the film, it's going to be a very different movie, considering that it's almost all in the school, under the heavy hand of Umbridge. It's going to be more of a psychological thriller, where as this one was an action/thriller.
All in all, I give it a brazillion golden Snitches and a jolly-roger. And now I'm going to see it again.
My only pet-peeve was the complete lack of an actual World-Cup match. That felt really WRONG. Everything else they handled quite well, though I do think they gave one too many clues that Moody was Barty JR. They had the tongle-flickering scenes too close together, which I felt made it too obvious. Otherwise, I thought it was WONDERFUL.
I thought Voldemort would be a little thinner and understated, almost physically weak, and more silently-hissing/menacing, but Ralph did a great job of convincing me. Wormtail should have whimpered and sobbed a bit more. They did an excellent job of making the death of Cedric very sudden and painful, emotionally. They didn't try to soften the death for the audience. I started crying when Harry's parents came out during Priori Incantatem, and was continually a water-works until Moody led Harry away after he returned with the Cedric and the Cup.
It's a tough call for me which I like better, this one or PoA, because I love the European art-film feel of PoA, but this one was much more emotionally gripping, much more adult (well, teen, anyway). This is seriously a series that just gets better and better (with the arguable exception that CoS wasn't as good as SS.)
I can't wait until OotP the film, it's going to be a very different movie, considering that it's almost all in the school, under the heavy hand of Umbridge. It's going to be more of a psychological thriller, where as this one was an action/thriller.
All in all, I give it a brazillion golden Snitches and a jolly-roger. And now I'm going to see it again.
