Brilliant

A short note on the new Harry Potter movie (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire). I thought it was wonderful. Bloody brilliant.

The kids did too, though I think my younger son had a hard time following it ... the movie condenses a very long and detailed book into just 2-1/2 hours. I thought that if you hadn't read the book, you would be confused. But someone at work told me today she forgot most of the book and was able to follow along just fine and loved the movie too.

The abridgment was done well... some things had to be changed to accommodate lost subplots (for instance, the house elves are all absent -- and good riddens, says me -- so Neville gives Harry the gillyweed, not Dobby), but it all worked.

If anything I wanted more... a longer movie, more scenes, longer scenes... more of it all.