Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #748 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-06-15
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 157 minutes

Synopsis
Adults who may have been turned off by the more kid-friendly elements of the first two Potter films should sit up and cheer; this fourth installment of Harry's adventures at the magic school of Hogwarts is more mature and darker than its immediate predecessor. This year, Hogwarts is hosting the Tri Wizard festival, and there may be a plot afoot to off Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) during the proceedings. Hermione (Emma Watson) finds a man worthy of her in competing Russian Quidditch champion Viktor Krum (Stanislav Ivaneski), to the chagrin of Ron Weaselly (Rupert Grint) who, though growing into a fine, shaggy orange-haired figure of a lad, is still not quite mature enough to ask Hermione to the Yule ball. Krum's teacher may be involved in the dastardly get-Harry plot, which involves writhing snake tattoos, skull clouds, death-eaters, tournaments with live dragons, a submersible schooner, and a competing school of poised and beautiful girls run by Maxime (Frances De La Tour), who shares a romantic past with gamekeeper Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane). All the other favourites of the series are back as well, including Alan Rickman, Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, and Gary Oldman, with Timothy Spall as the odious Wormtail, while a new addition to the A-list thespian roster is Ralph Fiennes. Director Mike Newell takes plenty of time to explore character development, but the story still gallops along at a breathless pace, with memorably intense moments involving fire-spewing dragons, dark magical rites, and near-drownings at the hands of slimy mer-people, all of which may prove too much for the youngest of viewers. Everyone else is advised to hold on tight.

Customer Reviews

Harry for all!!!
Harry Potter would appear to appeal to all ages ! at 80 yrs I really enjoy viewing this maybe its just me growing
old but staying young!!!

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The fourth film offers everything that the third film failed to provide. There's a glossy sheen to the whole production, the sets and props look solid and chunky, even the CGI looks more real than the physical sets of the last one! There's also a greater use of comedy too, nothing outrageously slapstick, but lots of little moments that cheer up what is a rather dark storyline. Torture, murder, treachery, kidnapping and Rita Skeeter are just some of the perils that Harry has to face in the course of the film. Drawing elements from the previous films the film has elemets of earth, water and fire but these are kept to a minimum as this episode is all about magic. It's all about the spells and how you say them, as Harry and the other champions are put to the ultimate test in the tri-wizard tournament. The usual regulars take something of a step back for this film as the film centres on the contest as Harry, Cedric, Fleur and Viktor compete for eternal glory and fame, as well as a rather large wine goblet. To complicate the early running Harry and Ron have a generic falling out, they happen in almost every book/movie, last time it was Hermione and Ron, next time, well lets not rush there just yet. Also central to the book but not this movie is Harry noticing Cho Chang for the first time and starting to fall in love with her, but she's already dating Cedric and the whole story arc is largely ignored in this movie, so it makes you wonder why they bothered really, when they could have used the time to do something far more useful like explaining how BCJ escaped from you know where! Speaking of BDJ, David Tennant is at his nasty best in this film, all lizard tongued and gurning like he's channelling the spirits of Pat Troughton and Jon Pertwee. If ever you wanted to know what it would have been like had DT played the Master then watch the flashback trial scene, I call that costume as utterly perfect. The quidditch world cup takes up so much of the opening chapters of the book and yet it's missed completely from the film and the before and after are severely curtailed to, another half an hour added to the runtime could really have done the book justice and allowed more more magical nastiness that would have really rounded the film out from pretty great to amazingly superb imo.

HP4
I loved this one! The 6th one was ok, but i still rate this one as my fav so far. Shame they had to follow it with the worst one ever!