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Harry Potter and the Goblet of RAWK
I feel compelled to re-post this (from my journal) because I know some many of y'all are waiting anxiously for Nov. 18. No real spoilers; there's plot stuff, but I promise not to ruin anything. Although if you really don't want to know anymore, DO NOT CLICK THE CUT.



As has become routine with the HP movies, everything looks exactly as you think it should look. The way you imagine it in your head, or at least the way I imagine it, is almost always the way it looks on the screen. Cases in point:

—The dragon, he is the scaliest, gnarliest, pointiest ENORMOUS EFFING DRAGON you could ever imagine. And when there's *DRAGON SMASH*, it is so. effing. scary.
—Brendan Gleeson is magnificently grotesque as Mad-Eye Moody. He looks like he smells a little. And he's kind of loopy, which is just fun.
—Cedric Diggory is just brilliantly tall and handsome and gallant. With fantastic cheekbones. *Swoon*
—Ralphdemort. No, I won't tell you anything about Ralphdemort, but suffice to say: AAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

And they nail things that are so unique and freaky about being fourteen, like the Ball, how it is simultaneously the single most mortifying and impossibly glamourous experience of your life; and how when boys say things to girls, they say them reallyreallyfastsoyoucan'tunderstand; and how sometimes the mer-people try to stab you . . . wait, that totally didn't happen to me when I was fourteen.

As always, there is never enough Alan Rickman. There cannot be enough Alan Rickman in the world to suit me. He's just flawless. There's much more McGonagall in this movie, and Maggie Smith is, say it with me, perfect. AND, happily, there is all the Weasley twins one could ask for. None more Weasley twins possible. They're awesome. Mike Newell just hits the inherent Englishness of it out of the park in a way that Columbus and Cuaron couldn't conceive, and he's cast the champions and Cho perfectly (again, Cedric, cheekbones). There is little Draco, thankfully, but Ferret!Draco is fantastic. There's also a moment that will send the Harry-Hermione shippers into spasms of ecstasy, if they're paying attention, and did I mention Harry in the bath with Moaning Myrtle? So. Effing. Funny. (Until you remember that Shirley Henderson is 39 and Dan Radcliffe is 16 . . . still, it's really funny.) Wee Dan has been working out, methinks.

At the end, I cried. [My viewing companions] laughed at me a little. But that scene in the graveyard really is that horrifying (not to mention the scene at the Quidditch World Cup when the Death Eaters maraud—it was very unsettling, like panic-in-the-streets-somebody-just-blew-something-up unsettling).These are damn good reasons this movie is PG-13.

In conclusion: GAAAH SO AMAZING. I suppose it goes without saying that I highly recommend.