goblet of fire: movie
okay, i'm going to warn ALL of you so that i don't get people flaming me about indiscreet spoilage.
SPOILER ALERT!!! if you do not wish to be poiled for the harry potter movie, DO not pass go, do not collec--wait, wrong cliched phrase. just don't click the cut. trust me, if you do, you'll be so spoiled for it, you might not feel like springing for the movie.
consider yourself warned.
okay, first things first, despite the fact that i feel like hurling, i am still going to type this up. oh,m it's not related to the movie (it's not THAT bad, please) i've just been feeling really nauseous the past few days, especially yesterday and today...
i hope i'm not falling ill...
okay, review.
they tried to turn a 700-odd-pager into a less that 3-hour movie. that in itself could be a review, albeit a DAMN SHORT one.
they left out MANY parts. it would be easier on my part to give a synopsis of the movie rather than specifically state what they left out. the list would be far shorter.
movie starts with the gardener/caretaker of the old riddle place. he sees lights in the old house, thinks kids have broken in, goes to check things out (while stupidly leaving the kettle on the lighted stove--FIRE HAZARD, HELLO?????) and boom! gets killed by bad old voldie.
and we realize that what we've just seen is harry's dream, and he's being woken up by hermoine to get ready to leave for the world cup (qudditch, yer gits!!!) and dump in a short comedic element of ron looking positively SCANDALIZED by 'moine waking him while he's wearing a skimpy singlet. cute, though.
pan to portkey scene, POOF and they reach the vast plot of land where the finals are being held. GO IRELAND!!! i just prefer ireland as opposed to bulgaria, okay? green's a pretty colour... we see massive tentage (mind you, we just see LOADS of tents) before going into the weasley's tent. the inside's WAAAAY prettier than the outside.
next thing, it's the finals!!! our heroes are climbing up to their seats, they meet malfoys senior and junior, normal spiteful exchanges and bragging take place, they take their seats. the players make their entrance, fudge releases a ball of light (a.k.a. what looks to be the snitch) and poof, it's over, we're back in the weasley's tents.
nothing on the match, by the way. you don't even get told who won, let alone witness the match.
and then bad noises come from outside, and daddy weasley decides that it's time they leave. they exit the tent, other tents are in flames, people are screaming, deatheater-KKK-wannabes are carrying lit torches. it's utter pandemonium, they lose harry in the process, and the boy who lived gets knocked down my pinicking people and falls unconscious.
he wakes up to find the place totally deserted, tents more like sticks poking out from the ground. he sees a lone figure (think barty crouch junior) and said person poofs the dark mark into the air (his own wand, too. or whoever it belonged to, it wasn't harry). and then disappears when he hears people call for harry.
crouch senior shoves a glowing wand into harry's face, thinking he's the git who poofed the dark mark into the night sky. thankfully, harry doesn't get bespelled into the next school year. and all is well, they go to school. we see cho on the train and for a girl who's supposed to be remarkably pretty, she looks like they plucked her off any singaporean street. heck, there are girls PRETTIER than her on the streets. cho is plain and ordinary-looking, and if you'd met her on a crowded street (or any OTHER street, for that matter) you wouldn't have looked twice.
anyway, blah blah blah, dumbledore makes his speech (WHERE IS THE ENGLISH ACCENT???????????!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOO!!!!!) and introduces them to the triwizard tournament (there's a MOUNTAINOUS ice cream tower at the gryffindor's table. go look for it!). at the same time, we see soaring pegasi hauling a pretty gilded carriage towards (presumeably) hogwarts, and an ancient ship popping out of...the lake. and dumbledore continues his speech and introduces...
BAUXBATON! (or however you spell it) and the pretty blue-clad girls dance in (their dance is a bit lacking in the choreographical department, but they're supposed to be so breathtaking that you overlook that fact. not tha they ARE, but they're SUPPOSED to be.) and disperse in a flurry of glowing blue butterflies.
and then DRUMSTRANG! troops in, like a band of acrobatic hitler-wannabes. actually, flitwick LOOKS like hitler. really.
anyway, they bang their big sticks on the floor, march down the aisle in perfect synch, doing exercises that would be more suited to a rifle, and a few cartwheel and flip towards dumbledore's podium, and they too, disperse to lord knows where.
more talk about the tournament.
so there's all the stuff about eternal glory (ron seems positively OBESSESED with it) and then you go to where people are tossing their names into the cup. each toss is greeted with applause and hoots from supporters. weasley twins fred and george bounce in with their ageing potion, drink it (after hermoine's usualy comments on how it's not going to work) and proceed to enter themselves into the tournament.
they make it past the line. the crowd cheers. they toss their names inside the cup. the crowd cheers. and then something happens, they are swept off their feet and out of the age-circle drawn on the ground (by dumbledore, and THAT'S why the potion is NOT going to work. yes, hermoine, we KNOW that.) and they start growing the straggly white beards and moustaches and long, long hair. the crowd laughs.
the next day, the champions are announced. first is viktor krum, quidditch seeker extraordinaire. durmstrang cheers. next is fleur, having submitted her name on pretty blue paper (gold-edged, no less). bauxbaton cheers. and then cedrick is announced. hogwarts cheers.
dumbledore is about to explain the tournament know-alls when the cup coughs out another name. POOF!!! lined parchment, how neat. it's...HARRY!!!
all is silent. hermoine has to prod harry out of his seat to join the other champoins in the waiting room, of sorts. the professors (and crouch) follow him down. crouch reminds them that harry has no choice but to participate, even though he's 4 years too young.
a group picture is taken, we meet rita skeeter, she hauls harry into a broom cupbaord for a private tete-a-tete. it would be almost like an illicit affair, if rita wasn't so irritating, and harry so bumbling. she completely bulldozes harry in classic let-me-put-words-in-your-mouth (and-expressions-in-your-eyes) skeeter style and her quill zooooooooms over notebook paper.
night conference with the professors. mcgonagall is oppsing the idea of harry taking part, the dear old lady. snape is for harry getting his brainless head torn off. what else is new? dumbledore is of the opinion that snape (gasp! horror! shock!) is right. mcgonagall can't believe her batty ears. blahblahblah.
anyway, ron is no longer talking to harry because he thinks harry somehow cheated and got his name in the cup and DIDN'T TELL HIM. and what kind of best friend is THAT???
they do the whole hermione-tell-harry-blahblahblah-because-i'm-not-talking-to-him-even-though-he's-only-three-feet-away bit. this leads to harry going to hagrid and we pan to a nighttime scene of a spruced up (as cleaned up as he's EVER going to be) hagrid bearing a red bloom and combed hair and harry with his invisibility cloak. he's off to a midnight rendezvous with madame maxine (who is taller than him! amazing!!!) and they proceed to do some giant firlting. harry watches on in amused disgust.
and then the dragons. the hungarian horntail poofs some serious flames.
next day at school, everone is wearing a 'potter stinks' badge and they're all laughing at him. harry's off to find cedrick to share the dragon news. he's laughed at some more, cedrick is surprised but grateful about the discovery/gossip and harry is off. he runs into ron, they exchange terse words (harry's pissed off because hagrid said he told ron--who knew because his brother charlie was the one who helped bring the dragons in from romania--and yet ron never told him [harry]) and then harry runs into malfoy.
blahblahblah DRACO MALFOY, THE WORLD FIRST FLYING/FLOATING FERRET!!! he also gets chucked down crabbe/goyle's pants. eeeeeeeeeeeew.
defence against the dark arts class. moody is weird and creepy and manages to alienate neville and hermoine, and impress ron, with his illegal spider tricks. after class, they meet a distraught and very traumatized neville. moody invites him to his office to show him something. you later find out that it's a herbology book.
harry and moody have a small...talk. moody wants to find out what harry's going to do about the dragons. harry, poor dense sod that he is, has no idea. moody tells him to go with his strengths. harry claims that he hasn't any, apart from flying. DUH~!!! strength! right there!!! *whacks harry with his wand* but he sighs. they aren't allowed to bring their brroms. moody reminds him that they ARE allowed to bring their WANDS. (can you imagine how horribly one-sided it would be WITHOUT the wands???)
so poof, we are at the dragon day. our champoins are inside a tent. harry hears a "PSSSST!!! harry is that you?" and toddles over. it's hermoine!!! here to wish him luck. she gives him a supportive hug and FLASH! rita's cameraman has caught them in the act!!! blazing broomsticks!!! how scandalous!!! they get one of krum as well, before he chases them out of the tent.
cedrick is the first to face the dragon. camera pans to his worried face. then next thing you know, harry's sitting alone in the tent, and his name is announced. tense and anxious, he exits and walks into a rocky world with a nest and a golden egg in to.
his goal? get the egg, maintain his ability to continue breathing, maintain all organs within his body, do not get stepped on.
he almost gets squished in seconds.
lucky git that he is, he manages to rolla away. there is a succession of doges, lunges, harry fying into a rock wall.
he eventually gets the idea and does the whole ACCIO FIREBOLT!!! thing.
he continues evading the horntail while waiting for his broomstick to take it's own bloody time sailing to him.
it DOES reach him after a few tense, fire-breathing moments, and harry leads his adversary on a merry chase around the rocky arena and hogwarts in general. you have many near-misses and collisions, and harry falls/gets knocked off and slides down a turret. his broom is on a ledge. he's on the roof above it. draggie and slowly, but surely, clawing his way across the other turrets to him. he jumps down.
EEEKS!!! he misses the broom! he's on the ledge below it! more tense moments, almost gets mauled by the dragon, manages to get broom, flys off towards egg.
but the horntail flies too, and well. and fast, and harry's brrom gets singed.
back at the arena, all are waiting with bated breath. the piercing dragon shriek they hear seconds back does NOT sound promising. neither is harry's seeming failure to return.
wait, wait, and more waiting. and poof, smoking harry upon his smoking broomstick appears and the crowd goes wild. he zooms down and gets the egg.
suddenly, we're in the gryffindor common room and harry is surrounded by cheering fans. they want the egg opened, dammit, and harry teases them and FINALLY opens it.
screeching worse than a symphony of nails and chalkboards fill the room. harry slams the eggs shut/closed. pan to ron standing at the doorway, looking decidedly miserable, astonished, and in a reasonable amount of pain/shock from the awful racket.
harry and ron make up. nope, sorry fangirls, no pretty kissies. aww, but all is well between the delinquent duo once more.
there's a scene where mcgonagall teaches them to waltz, and poor ron is her dancing partner. at what seems to be combined homeroom of sorts, with snape in charge, the twins remind harry and ron to get a date before all the good ones are taken. the twins are also haven't got dates yet. but in a matter of seconds, one of them asks angelina, and of course, she accepts. ron tries to ask hermoine, he is interrupted by snape smacking him on the head. by this point, he and harry have already been similarly punished by snape for their interaction. hermoine is insulted at being ron's desperate choice announces that she HAS a date to the ball, stalks off to hand in her assignment to snape, and spins round, and storms off. harry and ron continue their discussion, cue the snape head-shove.
the balls comes, harry and ron are partnered with the patils. ron looks decidedly...laughable in his ancient dress robes, and his date agrees, much to her obvious dismay. her sister is only marginally more pleased with being harry's date, as can be seen further into the ball.
hermoine descends the stairs, pettier than the supposedly striking cho, AND the supposedly veela-lovely fleur. everyone is amazed. krum is just smitten, and takes her hand. he's a total gentleman, complete with hand-kiss greeting. he'd look almost sweet if he didn't remind me of a footballer. actually, he looks kinda like baldish beckham, complete with stubbly goatee. see? he really IS a world cup player. quidditch, though, not soccer.
la la la, the patil are absolutely disappointed in their choice in dates, harry and ron are left alone, krum leaves to get pretty 'moine some punch--the sweet, smitten, absolutely besotted darling--and the little lady can't help but want to share her magical time with her two best friends.
ron spoils everything, though, and even makes her cry. bad ron! no chocolate frogs for you!!!
pan to next scene where you find out that not only is the second triwizard tournament task (see my wonderful usage of alliteration? you find a stunning one in the mcgonagall-teaches-gryffindors-to-dance scene too. along with the weasley twins acting goofy. "say it five times, fast!!!") two days away, but harry hasn't even got a clue (from his egg, i mean).
cue grateful cedrick, who spills the secret about the prefects' bathroom on the fifth floor, baths, and bringing his egg.
fanservice for all harry fans. he's in a huuuuuuuuuuuge bath that looks more like a giant orgy-sized bubblebath. he opens the egg once more, almost goes deaf from the incessant screeching. MOANING MYRTLE'S RETURN!!! ^_^
she advises him to try putting it UNDER WATER.
a very amusing scene with flirty, pervy myrtle and freaked-out, scandalized harry. oh, amazing, whoop-de-doo, he realizes that the next task involves mermaids, going underwater, and 1 hour. combine that and you get a mission that requires you to be able to stay underwater for about an hour.
aqualungs anyone?
but that's obviously not an option in the potterverse.
moody overtly hints to harry about neville (and his new book on plants) who, in a following scene, tells harry about gillyweed. he procures some for harry, who uses it, albeit with a few reservations.
moody gets a kick out of kicking harry into the water.
harry struggles for a bit while the gillyweed takes effect.
yay! he's a regular dolphin now, he even does a splendid flip right out of water. the crowd cheers.
fleur gets stopped halfway. oh no!!! attacked by grindylows!!!
harry reaches the captives first, but is torn between saving ron and hermione. it's the classic question of who would you save??? he tries to free 'mione AND ron but is stopped by the merpeople. hermione isn't HIS captive. so SHOO!!!
while that happens, cedrick swims by, bubblehead charm in place (he and fleur had the same idea, but cedrick's smarter than the frenchie) and rescues his beloved cho.
next comes krum, with an aesome shark head...instead of his own. but it does the job. hermione saved!!!
but the little girl is still there, waiting for fleur, who is already on the surface, and panicking. harry, being harry, decides to save both ron AND fleur's little sister. halfway up, he's attacked by half-merpeople, half-octopus creatures. much struggling ensues, and harry shoves his freed captives towards the surface.
they reach the surface unharmed and breathing. just mighty cold and wet.
the crowd cheers.
harry, meanwhile, is still underwater, and his gilly weed has long run out. swim is no longer an option. sink? well he's sinking pretty well...
but with a sudden burst of will and words (how the HECK does one TALK underwater???) he zoooooooooms to the surface and onto the pier-thing.
the crowd cheers.
he's gasping and very much waterlogged, but overall still safe, and breathing.
he's commended, and although he came in last (no, second-last, fleur had to stop halfay, remember?) he gets second place for exhibiting splendid moral fibre.
blah blah blah, last task? a leafy labyrinth designed to drive you out of your minds.
it's creepy, and very unnerving. fleur is (again) the first to fall. she also screams.
harry, curious little boy, decides to investigate. he arrives in time to get krum's wand in his face, and to see fleur getting towed away by some vines. in manga, this would be the part where the pervy fanboys scream "TENTACLES!!!" and then krum is the next to fall, when he gets into a tangle with cedrick.
and then the remaining two hogwartians spy the triwizard cup, and like two seekers aiming for a snitch, they slap and shove to get at it.
halfway, though, cedrick encounters some of the same kind of vines that sucked away fleur. fangirls would be screaming "TENTACLES!!!" and harry has to decide whether or not to leave his senpai in the mud and ferocious plantlife, or to rescue said boy.
moral fibre takes over, and he chooses the latter option. they reach the cup, and after the whole "you take it, no, YOU take it, no YOU take it, i insist" thing, they decide to share it. lovely, well-mannered boys.
they grab it.
and find themselves transported to a graveyard. there's tom riddle (voldie's daddykins) grave, complete with angel statue, although this one, ominously, bears a scythe. creepy.
wormtail appears, carrying a tiny, shrivelled, baby-sized voldemort. cedrick is avada kedavra-ed and the statue with the scyth brings down said stone weapon and traps harry to it. wormy then dumps voldie into a huge culdron full of icky brew. he takes one of riddle senior's bones, and plops it in. next, he slices off his own right hand. last ingredient in soup de voldemort is harry's blood.
in it goes, drip drip drip.
in a spectacular flare and display of pyrotechnical swirls, voldie is reborn. he'd look like a normal bald guy in a cloak/cassock if it wasn't for the snake-slit nostrils and lack of actual nose.
he has a very one-sided mock duel with harry, culminating in a reverse tug-o-war of electrifying magic-streams. cedrick poofs back into silvery, ethereal existence, as does the murdered gardener/caretaker. and then lily and james potter. they tell their son to get to the cup immediately when they distract voldie. cedrick wants harry to take his body back. he does as instucted, and arrives before the cheering crowd shielding the dead cedrick with his body (um, a bit too late, love.) sobbing.
no one really notices cedrick's absence of life for awhile.which is appalling. but then again, they're all so excited about harry winning that they aren't paying much attention to the still body beneath him. until fleur screams.
needless to say, chaos ensues, there is much sorrow from cedrick's dad.
harry is spirited away by moody, back to his office. halfway while talking to harry about his experience, he starts to act funny. he also realizes that the little flask he's been drinking out off is now empty. and all his spares are empty too. he also let's slip something about harry being in the graveyard. and harry has yet to say anything about graveyards. or what happened. and his brain cells kick in and he realizes that moody is not who he appears to be. he is about to kill harry when the door slams in.
the calvary has arrived!!! in the form of dumbledore, mcgonagall, and snape. oh, and a bottle of snape's verita serum.
dubledore pours it down the fuax-moody's throat.
let the inquisition begin.
they find the real moody in a funky chest, all bedraggled and clothed in stark white (probably his thermal underwear) and looking very weary.
faux-moody is (gasp! shock! horror!) barty crouch junior!!! (the guy harry saw in dumbledore's pensieve during durmstrang's headmaster's trial as a deatheater) snape crouch-watches as dumbly and mac go and notify azkaban.
dumbledore makes an announcement of cedrick's death, and voldie's return to life.
the flying pegasi and sinking ship mark bauxbaton and durmstrang's exit.
scene with our terrific threesome. hermoine wants the boys to write to her. ron says he won't (but most likely will anyway) harry promises to write every week.
the end.
there are SO many things they left out that i don't even WANT to begin. >< overall, it was an okay movie. good, if you haven't read the book, although the squished-ness of it made it a bit hard to follow at times/confusing (if you haven't read the book) and if you HAVE read the book...
well...i'll let you develop your own opinions of it.
enjoy.
i'm tired, nauseous, and in need of rest. goodnight.
SPOILER ALERT!!! if you do not wish to be poiled for the harry potter movie, DO not pass go, do not collec--wait, wrong cliched phrase. just don't click the cut. trust me, if you do, you'll be so spoiled for it, you might not feel like springing for the movie.
consider yourself warned.
okay, first things first, despite the fact that i feel like hurling, i am still going to type this up. oh,m it's not related to the movie (it's not THAT bad, please) i've just been feeling really nauseous the past few days, especially yesterday and today...
i hope i'm not falling ill...
okay, review.
they tried to turn a 700-odd-pager into a less that 3-hour movie. that in itself could be a review, albeit a DAMN SHORT one.
they left out MANY parts. it would be easier on my part to give a synopsis of the movie rather than specifically state what they left out. the list would be far shorter.
movie starts with the gardener/caretaker of the old riddle place. he sees lights in the old house, thinks kids have broken in, goes to check things out (while stupidly leaving the kettle on the lighted stove--FIRE HAZARD, HELLO?????) and boom! gets killed by bad old voldie.
and we realize that what we've just seen is harry's dream, and he's being woken up by hermoine to get ready to leave for the world cup (qudditch, yer gits!!!) and dump in a short comedic element of ron looking positively SCANDALIZED by 'moine waking him while he's wearing a skimpy singlet. cute, though.
pan to portkey scene, POOF and they reach the vast plot of land where the finals are being held. GO IRELAND!!! i just prefer ireland as opposed to bulgaria, okay? green's a pretty colour... we see massive tentage (mind you, we just see LOADS of tents) before going into the weasley's tent. the inside's WAAAAY prettier than the outside.
next thing, it's the finals!!! our heroes are climbing up to their seats, they meet malfoys senior and junior, normal spiteful exchanges and bragging take place, they take their seats. the players make their entrance, fudge releases a ball of light (a.k.a. what looks to be the snitch) and poof, it's over, we're back in the weasley's tents.
nothing on the match, by the way. you don't even get told who won, let alone witness the match.
and then bad noises come from outside, and daddy weasley decides that it's time they leave. they exit the tent, other tents are in flames, people are screaming, deatheater-KKK-wannabes are carrying lit torches. it's utter pandemonium, they lose harry in the process, and the boy who lived gets knocked down my pinicking people and falls unconscious.
he wakes up to find the place totally deserted, tents more like sticks poking out from the ground. he sees a lone figure (think barty crouch junior) and said person poofs the dark mark into the air (his own wand, too. or whoever it belonged to, it wasn't harry). and then disappears when he hears people call for harry.
crouch senior shoves a glowing wand into harry's face, thinking he's the git who poofed the dark mark into the night sky. thankfully, harry doesn't get bespelled into the next school year. and all is well, they go to school. we see cho on the train and for a girl who's supposed to be remarkably pretty, she looks like they plucked her off any singaporean street. heck, there are girls PRETTIER than her on the streets. cho is plain and ordinary-looking, and if you'd met her on a crowded street (or any OTHER street, for that matter) you wouldn't have looked twice.
anyway, blah blah blah, dumbledore makes his speech (WHERE IS THE ENGLISH ACCENT???????????!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOO!!!!!) and introduces them to the triwizard tournament (there's a MOUNTAINOUS ice cream tower at the gryffindor's table. go look for it!). at the same time, we see soaring pegasi hauling a pretty gilded carriage towards (presumeably) hogwarts, and an ancient ship popping out of...the lake. and dumbledore continues his speech and introduces...
BAUXBATON! (or however you spell it) and the pretty blue-clad girls dance in (their dance is a bit lacking in the choreographical department, but they're supposed to be so breathtaking that you overlook that fact. not tha they ARE, but they're SUPPOSED to be.) and disperse in a flurry of glowing blue butterflies.
and then DRUMSTRANG! troops in, like a band of acrobatic hitler-wannabes. actually, flitwick LOOKS like hitler. really.
anyway, they bang their big sticks on the floor, march down the aisle in perfect synch, doing exercises that would be more suited to a rifle, and a few cartwheel and flip towards dumbledore's podium, and they too, disperse to lord knows where.
more talk about the tournament.
so there's all the stuff about eternal glory (ron seems positively OBESSESED with it) and then you go to where people are tossing their names into the cup. each toss is greeted with applause and hoots from supporters. weasley twins fred and george bounce in with their ageing potion, drink it (after hermoine's usualy comments on how it's not going to work) and proceed to enter themselves into the tournament.
they make it past the line. the crowd cheers. they toss their names inside the cup. the crowd cheers. and then something happens, they are swept off their feet and out of the age-circle drawn on the ground (by dumbledore, and THAT'S why the potion is NOT going to work. yes, hermoine, we KNOW that.) and they start growing the straggly white beards and moustaches and long, long hair. the crowd laughs.
the next day, the champions are announced. first is viktor krum, quidditch seeker extraordinaire. durmstrang cheers. next is fleur, having submitted her name on pretty blue paper (gold-edged, no less). bauxbaton cheers. and then cedrick is announced. hogwarts cheers.
dumbledore is about to explain the tournament know-alls when the cup coughs out another name. POOF!!! lined parchment, how neat. it's...HARRY!!!
all is silent. hermoine has to prod harry out of his seat to join the other champoins in the waiting room, of sorts. the professors (and crouch) follow him down. crouch reminds them that harry has no choice but to participate, even though he's 4 years too young.
a group picture is taken, we meet rita skeeter, she hauls harry into a broom cupbaord for a private tete-a-tete. it would be almost like an illicit affair, if rita wasn't so irritating, and harry so bumbling. she completely bulldozes harry in classic let-me-put-words-in-your-mouth (and-expressions-in-your-eyes) skeeter style and her quill zooooooooms over notebook paper.
night conference with the professors. mcgonagall is oppsing the idea of harry taking part, the dear old lady. snape is for harry getting his brainless head torn off. what else is new? dumbledore is of the opinion that snape (gasp! horror! shock!) is right. mcgonagall can't believe her batty ears. blahblahblah.
anyway, ron is no longer talking to harry because he thinks harry somehow cheated and got his name in the cup and DIDN'T TELL HIM. and what kind of best friend is THAT???
they do the whole hermione-tell-harry-blahblahblah-because-i'm-not-talking-to-him-even-though-he's-only-three-feet-away bit. this leads to harry going to hagrid and we pan to a nighttime scene of a spruced up (as cleaned up as he's EVER going to be) hagrid bearing a red bloom and combed hair and harry with his invisibility cloak. he's off to a midnight rendezvous with madame maxine (who is taller than him! amazing!!!) and they proceed to do some giant firlting. harry watches on in amused disgust.
and then the dragons. the hungarian horntail poofs some serious flames.
next day at school, everone is wearing a 'potter stinks' badge and they're all laughing at him. harry's off to find cedrick to share the dragon news. he's laughed at some more, cedrick is surprised but grateful about the discovery/gossip and harry is off. he runs into ron, they exchange terse words (harry's pissed off because hagrid said he told ron--who knew because his brother charlie was the one who helped bring the dragons in from romania--and yet ron never told him [harry]) and then harry runs into malfoy.
blahblahblah DRACO MALFOY, THE WORLD FIRST FLYING/FLOATING FERRET!!! he also gets chucked down crabbe/goyle's pants. eeeeeeeeeeeew.
defence against the dark arts class. moody is weird and creepy and manages to alienate neville and hermoine, and impress ron, with his illegal spider tricks. after class, they meet a distraught and very traumatized neville. moody invites him to his office to show him something. you later find out that it's a herbology book.
harry and moody have a small...talk. moody wants to find out what harry's going to do about the dragons. harry, poor dense sod that he is, has no idea. moody tells him to go with his strengths. harry claims that he hasn't any, apart from flying. DUH~!!! strength! right there!!! *whacks harry with his wand* but he sighs. they aren't allowed to bring their brroms. moody reminds him that they ARE allowed to bring their WANDS. (can you imagine how horribly one-sided it would be WITHOUT the wands???)
so poof, we are at the dragon day. our champoins are inside a tent. harry hears a "PSSSST!!! harry is that you?" and toddles over. it's hermoine!!! here to wish him luck. she gives him a supportive hug and FLASH! rita's cameraman has caught them in the act!!! blazing broomsticks!!! how scandalous!!! they get one of krum as well, before he chases them out of the tent.
cedrick is the first to face the dragon. camera pans to his worried face. then next thing you know, harry's sitting alone in the tent, and his name is announced. tense and anxious, he exits and walks into a rocky world with a nest and a golden egg in to.
his goal? get the egg, maintain his ability to continue breathing, maintain all organs within his body, do not get stepped on.
he almost gets squished in seconds.
lucky git that he is, he manages to rolla away. there is a succession of doges, lunges, harry fying into a rock wall.
he eventually gets the idea and does the whole ACCIO FIREBOLT!!! thing.
he continues evading the horntail while waiting for his broomstick to take it's own bloody time sailing to him.
it DOES reach him after a few tense, fire-breathing moments, and harry leads his adversary on a merry chase around the rocky arena and hogwarts in general. you have many near-misses and collisions, and harry falls/gets knocked off and slides down a turret. his broom is on a ledge. he's on the roof above it. draggie and slowly, but surely, clawing his way across the other turrets to him. he jumps down.
EEEKS!!! he misses the broom! he's on the ledge below it! more tense moments, almost gets mauled by the dragon, manages to get broom, flys off towards egg.
but the horntail flies too, and well. and fast, and harry's brrom gets singed.
back at the arena, all are waiting with bated breath. the piercing dragon shriek they hear seconds back does NOT sound promising. neither is harry's seeming failure to return.
wait, wait, and more waiting. and poof, smoking harry upon his smoking broomstick appears and the crowd goes wild. he zooms down and gets the egg.
suddenly, we're in the gryffindor common room and harry is surrounded by cheering fans. they want the egg opened, dammit, and harry teases them and FINALLY opens it.
screeching worse than a symphony of nails and chalkboards fill the room. harry slams the eggs shut/closed. pan to ron standing at the doorway, looking decidedly miserable, astonished, and in a reasonable amount of pain/shock from the awful racket.
harry and ron make up. nope, sorry fangirls, no pretty kissies. aww, but all is well between the delinquent duo once more.
there's a scene where mcgonagall teaches them to waltz, and poor ron is her dancing partner. at what seems to be combined homeroom of sorts, with snape in charge, the twins remind harry and ron to get a date before all the good ones are taken. the twins are also haven't got dates yet. but in a matter of seconds, one of them asks angelina, and of course, she accepts. ron tries to ask hermoine, he is interrupted by snape smacking him on the head. by this point, he and harry have already been similarly punished by snape for their interaction. hermoine is insulted at being ron's desperate choice announces that she HAS a date to the ball, stalks off to hand in her assignment to snape, and spins round, and storms off. harry and ron continue their discussion, cue the snape head-shove.
the balls comes, harry and ron are partnered with the patils. ron looks decidedly...laughable in his ancient dress robes, and his date agrees, much to her obvious dismay. her sister is only marginally more pleased with being harry's date, as can be seen further into the ball.
hermoine descends the stairs, pettier than the supposedly striking cho, AND the supposedly veela-lovely fleur. everyone is amazed. krum is just smitten, and takes her hand. he's a total gentleman, complete with hand-kiss greeting. he'd look almost sweet if he didn't remind me of a footballer. actually, he looks kinda like baldish beckham, complete with stubbly goatee. see? he really IS a world cup player. quidditch, though, not soccer.
la la la, the patil are absolutely disappointed in their choice in dates, harry and ron are left alone, krum leaves to get pretty 'moine some punch--the sweet, smitten, absolutely besotted darling--and the little lady can't help but want to share her magical time with her two best friends.
ron spoils everything, though, and even makes her cry. bad ron! no chocolate frogs for you!!!
pan to next scene where you find out that not only is the second triwizard tournament task (see my wonderful usage of alliteration? you find a stunning one in the mcgonagall-teaches-gryffindors-to-dance scene too. along with the weasley twins acting goofy. "say it five times, fast!!!") two days away, but harry hasn't even got a clue (from his egg, i mean).
cue grateful cedrick, who spills the secret about the prefects' bathroom on the fifth floor, baths, and bringing his egg.
fanservice for all harry fans. he's in a huuuuuuuuuuuge bath that looks more like a giant orgy-sized bubblebath. he opens the egg once more, almost goes deaf from the incessant screeching. MOANING MYRTLE'S RETURN!!! ^_^
she advises him to try putting it UNDER WATER.
a very amusing scene with flirty, pervy myrtle and freaked-out, scandalized harry. oh, amazing, whoop-de-doo, he realizes that the next task involves mermaids, going underwater, and 1 hour. combine that and you get a mission that requires you to be able to stay underwater for about an hour.
aqualungs anyone?
but that's obviously not an option in the potterverse.
moody overtly hints to harry about neville (and his new book on plants) who, in a following scene, tells harry about gillyweed. he procures some for harry, who uses it, albeit with a few reservations.
moody gets a kick out of kicking harry into the water.
harry struggles for a bit while the gillyweed takes effect.
yay! he's a regular dolphin now, he even does a splendid flip right out of water. the crowd cheers.
fleur gets stopped halfway. oh no!!! attacked by grindylows!!!
harry reaches the captives first, but is torn between saving ron and hermione. it's the classic question of who would you save??? he tries to free 'mione AND ron but is stopped by the merpeople. hermione isn't HIS captive. so SHOO!!!
while that happens, cedrick swims by, bubblehead charm in place (he and fleur had the same idea, but cedrick's smarter than the frenchie) and rescues his beloved cho.
next comes krum, with an aesome shark head...instead of his own. but it does the job. hermione saved!!!
but the little girl is still there, waiting for fleur, who is already on the surface, and panicking. harry, being harry, decides to save both ron AND fleur's little sister. halfway up, he's attacked by half-merpeople, half-octopus creatures. much struggling ensues, and harry shoves his freed captives towards the surface.
they reach the surface unharmed and breathing. just mighty cold and wet.
the crowd cheers.
harry, meanwhile, is still underwater, and his gilly weed has long run out. swim is no longer an option. sink? well he's sinking pretty well...
but with a sudden burst of will and words (how the HECK does one TALK underwater???) he zoooooooooms to the surface and onto the pier-thing.
the crowd cheers.
he's gasping and very much waterlogged, but overall still safe, and breathing.
he's commended, and although he came in last (no, second-last, fleur had to stop halfay, remember?) he gets second place for exhibiting splendid moral fibre.
blah blah blah, last task? a leafy labyrinth designed to drive you out of your minds.
it's creepy, and very unnerving. fleur is (again) the first to fall. she also screams.
harry, curious little boy, decides to investigate. he arrives in time to get krum's wand in his face, and to see fleur getting towed away by some vines. in manga, this would be the part where the pervy fanboys scream "TENTACLES!!!" and then krum is the next to fall, when he gets into a tangle with cedrick.
and then the remaining two hogwartians spy the triwizard cup, and like two seekers aiming for a snitch, they slap and shove to get at it.
halfway, though, cedrick encounters some of the same kind of vines that sucked away fleur. fangirls would be screaming "TENTACLES!!!" and harry has to decide whether or not to leave his senpai in the mud and ferocious plantlife, or to rescue said boy.
moral fibre takes over, and he chooses the latter option. they reach the cup, and after the whole "you take it, no, YOU take it, no YOU take it, i insist" thing, they decide to share it. lovely, well-mannered boys.
they grab it.
and find themselves transported to a graveyard. there's tom riddle (voldie's daddykins) grave, complete with angel statue, although this one, ominously, bears a scythe. creepy.
wormtail appears, carrying a tiny, shrivelled, baby-sized voldemort. cedrick is avada kedavra-ed and the statue with the scyth brings down said stone weapon and traps harry to it. wormy then dumps voldie into a huge culdron full of icky brew. he takes one of riddle senior's bones, and plops it in. next, he slices off his own right hand. last ingredient in soup de voldemort is harry's blood.
in it goes, drip drip drip.
in a spectacular flare and display of pyrotechnical swirls, voldie is reborn. he'd look like a normal bald guy in a cloak/cassock if it wasn't for the snake-slit nostrils and lack of actual nose.
he has a very one-sided mock duel with harry, culminating in a reverse tug-o-war of electrifying magic-streams. cedrick poofs back into silvery, ethereal existence, as does the murdered gardener/caretaker. and then lily and james potter. they tell their son to get to the cup immediately when they distract voldie. cedrick wants harry to take his body back. he does as instucted, and arrives before the cheering crowd shielding the dead cedrick with his body (um, a bit too late, love.) sobbing.
no one really notices cedrick's absence of life for awhile.which is appalling. but then again, they're all so excited about harry winning that they aren't paying much attention to the still body beneath him. until fleur screams.
needless to say, chaos ensues, there is much sorrow from cedrick's dad.
harry is spirited away by moody, back to his office. halfway while talking to harry about his experience, he starts to act funny. he also realizes that the little flask he's been drinking out off is now empty. and all his spares are empty too. he also let's slip something about harry being in the graveyard. and harry has yet to say anything about graveyards. or what happened. and his brain cells kick in and he realizes that moody is not who he appears to be. he is about to kill harry when the door slams in.
the calvary has arrived!!! in the form of dumbledore, mcgonagall, and snape. oh, and a bottle of snape's verita serum.
dubledore pours it down the fuax-moody's throat.
let the inquisition begin.
they find the real moody in a funky chest, all bedraggled and clothed in stark white (probably his thermal underwear) and looking very weary.
faux-moody is (gasp! shock! horror!) barty crouch junior!!! (the guy harry saw in dumbledore's pensieve during durmstrang's headmaster's trial as a deatheater) snape crouch-watches as dumbly and mac go and notify azkaban.
dumbledore makes an announcement of cedrick's death, and voldie's return to life.
the flying pegasi and sinking ship mark bauxbaton and durmstrang's exit.
scene with our terrific threesome. hermoine wants the boys to write to her. ron says he won't (but most likely will anyway) harry promises to write every week.
the end.
there are SO many things they left out that i don't even WANT to begin. >< overall, it was an okay movie. good, if you haven't read the book, although the squished-ness of it made it a bit hard to follow at times/confusing (if you haven't read the book) and if you HAVE read the book...
well...i'll let you develop your own opinions of it.
enjoy.
i'm tired, nauseous, and in need of rest. goodnight.