Star pupil Harry Potter (DANIEL RADCLIFFE) and his close friends Ron Weasley (RUPERT GRINT) and Hermione Granger (EMMA WATSON) have turned fourteen, which means they're in the throes of puppy love and teen angst, but are too young to participate in the Triwizard Tournament. A perilous and potentially dangerous competition to determine the best young magician from various schools of magic, it's only open to those 17 and over who've submitted their names into the mystical Goblet of Fire.
Durmstrang's Quidditch superstar Victor Krum (STANISLAV IANEVSKI) and the alluring Fleur Delacour (CLÉMENCE POÉSY) from Beauxbaton join Hogwarts' own Cedric Diggory (ROBERT PATTINSON) as the three chosen competitors. Yet, the Goblet then spits out Harry's name despite him having not entered. With Dumbledore and Ministry of Magic official Barty Crouch (ROGER LLOYD PACK) deciding they can't overrule the Goblet, Harry is allowed to enter. Even so, Dumbledore asks Moody -- a former dark wizard catcher who has a large, magical and mechanical eye on his eye patch -- to watch over Harry who doesn't seem to have the maturity to compete in, let alone win the tournament.
Harry also gets help from others, including groundskeeper Rubeus Hagrid (ROBBIE COLTRANE) when the latter isn't otherwise enamored with Madame Maxime (FRANCES DE LA TOUR) the head of Beauxbaton and Fleur's chaperone. As the tournament begins, Harry's unaware that he's not only going to have to overcome the tremendous physical and mental challenges the Tournament poses, but also a pesky reporter in the form of Rita Skeeter (MIRANDA RICHARDSON) and the recently resurrected Voldemort (RALPH FIENNES) and his minions who want Harry dead.
Violence consists of several characters being killed on and off screen, characters zapping others with powerful jolts of magic, and several encounters with monstrous beings. Those scenes, others moments of peril and various visuals may be unsettling, suspenseful or downright scary to younger viewers, but to a lesser extent or not at all to older kids. Some of that violence has bloody results, while various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes.
A father grieves over his dead son, while there's brief talk of losing parents. Some potentially imitative behavior is present, as is some drinking, while one character is made to look like an alcoholic (always drinking from a flask), but we later learn that what he's drinking is a non-alcoholic, magical potion.
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(2005) (Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson) (PG-13)
Alcohol/
DrugsBlood/Gore
Disrespectful/
Bad AttitudeFrightening/
Tense ScenesGuns/
Weapons
*Mild
Moderate
Extreme
*Extreme
Moderate
Imitative
BehaviorJump
ScenesMusic
(Scary/Tense)Music
(Inappropriate)Profanity
Mild
Minor
Extreme
None
Mild
Sex/
NuditySmoking
Tense Family
ScenesTopics To
Talk AboutViolence
Moderate
None
Heavy
Moderate
Heavy
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Reviewed November 10, 2005 / Posted November 18, 2005
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