OK, this was good. I still like the book better, mostly because there's more detail and character development (I loved the classes with the woman teaching divination, they made me laugh so hard) but the cuts were intelligent, and the special effects were spectacular.

And Kenneth Branagh. When I heard he was playing Gilderoy Lockhart, my first thought was, nah, he's not good looking enough...but I was wrong. He was ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. What a hoot! just loved that. Dobbie was too big, but looked right, and of course the rest of the cast was great.

As was the case with the previous Harry Potter movie, much care was taken with the script to be as faithful to the book as possible...but even with judicious cutting of unnecessary events, this is over a two hour movie, for one of the shorter books...how long is the Goblet of Fire movie going to be? Should be interesting... Go see it, by all means, but be sure to take time to read the books too.