The scariest Potter film
Louise Jury

IT is deemed so scary that children under 12 will not be allowed to view it on their own. But the rating will not halt the success of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire which was premiered in London earlier this week. The movie is slated for release on November 18.

Thousands cheered as the stars of the film arrived in Leicester Square, despite wet and miserable conditions. With the first three films having taken an estimated $2.5bn at the box office, the bespectacled wizard’s move into adolescence can only continue to bolster the already healthy bank balances of all involved, including Daniel Radcliffe. The 16-year-old’s portrayal of Harry, who is 14 in the latest film, is rumoured to have made him the UK’s wealthiest teenager, after Prince Harry.

Early word on the first Potter movie to have been directed by a British director, Mike Newell - the man behind Four Weddings and a Funeral and Donnie Brasco - seems positive. Christopher Tookey in the Daily Mail said it was "the darkest and scariest yet - small children, beware! - but it’s also the funniest and in many ways the best."

He said a great deal from the long J K Rowling book had been left out, which meant he might not have known what was going on had he not read the book. Despite this, he said: "Harry Potter is well and truly back and on magical form." In The Times, James Christopher said the director’s "considerable triumph is to keep the thrills up to exhilarating scratch. One of the perennial joys of J K Rowling’s addictive series is the ability to generate ever-spookier shades of evil."

The cast of the film includes Robbie Coltrane, Frances de la Tour, Michael Gambon, Ralph Fiennes and Miranda Richardson.

— The Independent

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