harry potter and the goblet of fire

in this film everyone is back again and ready for another year of school at hogwarts. this time there is a sort of contest that is hosted by the school that involves three players trying to win three contests to see who is the best in the world of magic. this contest leads the three contestants, including harry potter of course, to fight against dragons, mermaids, and finally a labyrinth in order to finish the course. at the end of the final challenge, harry finds himself transported face to face with the evil enemy lord voldemort. as the film progressed (which was an unbearable two hours and forty minutes) i started to see through the veil of this harry potter world. it seems that all the movies follow the same basic premise: harry has a bad time in the real world with his foster family, he gets to school and finds himself in an unexpected difficult position which he must get out of, and its always the newest hogwart teacher who is behind the said difficulty which devolves into a bad scooby-doo episode where the old guy is guilty and says 'and i would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those kids and that pesky dog!' thanks to harry-doo and the gang they are able to avoid another perilous jeopardy. at least this time we finally got to the story started three movies before: the battle with lord voldemort. do we really need the first two hours of this film? it all just seemed like time filler so they could show us their cool special effects. this film wasn't bad, per se, i just dont care for the series as a whole.