Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Despite bad language and serious horror, Goblet of Fire is in many ways the most positive of the series | Gene Edward Veith

Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire is the fourth movie based on J.K. Rowling's popular but to Christians controversial series of novels. The young actors have become teenagers, growing from cuteness to adolescent ranginess. The core audience of Potter fans has also gotten older. The first three movies were rated PG, but this one is PG-13, with some bad language and—instead of the cartoon-like scares of the first movies—some serious horror.

But Goblet of Fire is in other ways the most positive of the series. The first movies had a lot of laughs contrasting the boring, earthbound "Muggles" with the exciting secret world of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Although the witchcraft taught here is arguably not the same as that of devil worshippers or even Wiccans, parents were right to worry that the Potter novels and movies might make real witchcraft seem attractive to their children.