Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire (2005 Mike Newell)

JK went up in scale hugely with her fourth book, to 636 pages and the Tri-Wizard Tournament. Perhaps it is because this huge instalment is condensed into the same length as the preceding films that it feels truncated, unwieldy - and I'm not convinced the Quidditch World Cup opening, Ron and Harry falling out, and their embarrassment at attending the dance, add much to the proceedings. Rather feel it's from the 'more is more' school.

And so Mad Eye Moody (a welcome Brendan Gleeson - lovely performance) is Barty Crouch Jr. (David Tennant, with the tongue) all along? Hmm. And this whole game thing seems a very elaborate way to trap Mr. Potter.

Within the first twenty minutes we run into 70s TV gold, with Sykes, Only Fools and Horses (Roger Lloyd Pack) and Rising Damp (Frances de la Tour), and are then positively assailed with actors including Robert Pattinson, Jeremy Isaacs, Katie Leung (who was in Run, and that John Simm Hong Kong thing), Clémence Poésy, Stanislav Yanevski, Miranda Richardson and Ralph Fiennes, for the first time, appearing in what looks like the Universal backlot set for Frankenstein.

Roger Pratt is back behind the camera and Patrick Doyle takes over the music.

The newspaper photos e.g. Harry and Hermione in embrace, look oddly like animated GIF memes.

It quite amuses us that JK didn't want any American actors in it.

Former Hallmark artist Charles Bud Braman designed the typeface 'Hogwart's Wizard' for Warners used for the credits.

(On video, the end credits run over twelve minutes of the film's total 151!)