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DEFINITIVE VERSION: The movie. It's wizard...
...viewers of his movies - are growing up with him. Many, perhaps millions of them were six or eight when the first wallop of Harrymania struck the U.S. in the summer of 1999. They are tweeners or a little older now, within cracking-voice shouting distance of the young wizard?s 16 years - in the sixth book, The Half-Blood Prince, published this summer - or 14 years, his age in the new movie version of the fourth installment, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire...
...Everybody reading this is familiar with the outlines of the Goblet plot - Hogwarts? hosting of a Tri-Wizard Tournament, in which Harry is mysteriously chosen as a fourth contestant - so we?ll cut quickly through the maze and say that this is the first Potter film to improve on the book...
...Gleeson commandeers acting honors until the very late arrival of Ralph Fiennes as You Know Who ... He Who Must Not Be Named ... The Noseless Wonder ... Voldemort! The Tri-Wizard games that expertly filled most of the film?s time vanish from our minds when His Satanic Majesty appears to retrieve Harry for his purposes. ?Everything?s going to change now, isn?t it?? the boy-king asks later. It will. It has. In the Potter movie series, for the better...
...twice the length of a Disney cartoon feature. If The Sorcerer?s Stone has any merit, it was to demonstrate the elasticity of children?s attention spans; it proved that kids could sit still, enrapt, for ages. Goblet of Fire, which is not just an efficient babysitter but a wizard of a movie, will prove that adults...