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November 18, 2005

At the Movies: Teenage Potter faces grown-up scares

By CHRISTY LEMIRE
AP Movie Critic

If the third film in the Harry Potter series, last year's "Prisoner of Azkaban," seemed frightening with its soul-sucking Dementors and its German expressionist aesthetic, then the fourth installment, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," will have kids quaking in their seats — and perhaps wishing they had an invisibility cloak to hide beneath.

HARRY POTTER AND
THE GOBLET OF FIRE

Director: Mike Newell

Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Ralph Fiennes, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon

Rating: PG-13 for sequences of fantasy violence and frightening images

Running time: 157 minutes

This "Potter" earns its PG-13 rating — a first for the previously PG series about the boy wizard — as Harry grows into adolescence and learns more about his powers and his past. Of course, young fans have already devoured the J.K. Rowling books that provide the basis for the films, so they know what's coming. (The author is up to No. 6 out of seven planned.) But reading it on the page and seeing it on the screen can be two entirely different experiences, and several scenes will be disturbing to viewers regardless of age.


 
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