Emma Watson - Reviews from Goblet of Fire Era
Reeling Reviews.com:
Hermione Granger (Emma Watson, still the best actress
out of the three protagonists)
Calendarlive.com:
This is especially true because Emma Watson's Hermione
has grown into easily the most attractive student on
campus, so far removed from the books' insistence that
she is a plain and bossy girl that it makes a complete
hash of the sections of the plot dealing with her social
life.
Guidelive.com:
Ronald (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson). All
three young actors continue to progress as they mature
along with their characters. Kids just grow up so fast
these days.
Entertainment MSN:
Interspersed is a school dance where Harry and Ron end
up with the wrong dates, while Watson absolutely shines
as Hermione. I would've liked to have seen more of these
“human” elements that would've endeared
me more to these exceptional kids who must confront
astounding odds while battling hair-raising teenage
hood.
Lafayette:
Young Radcliffe's Harry has matured into a semi-hunky
young man, but still retains his humility and compassion.
Emma Watson's Hermione has grown into a stunning teen-ager,
and looks especially beautiful in her ball gown during
the Christmas dance.
Rockymountainnews.com:
Watson - one of the most beautiful girls ever put on
film - is beginning to settle into a more adult look.
Time:
Daniel Radcliffe is coming along nicely as the young
hero, though it's up for grabs whether the teen actor
will have the chest hair to face the horrors in store
for Harry. I'm getting quite fond of Emma Watson as
Harry's pal Hermione.
IGN Filmforce:
Watson continues to be the strongest link of the triad,
the unequivocal rock of Gibraltar that provides the
support and strength for the other two.
ChristianCritic.com:
Radcliffe, Grint, and Watson all show that they have
the talent that will take them beyond this franchise
if the movie-going public can muster the ability to
see them in any other light.
Democrat & Chronicle:
His friend Hermione (Emma Watson) is maturing into a
lovely young lady (and positively glistens at the Yule
ball).
Decentfilms.com
Longtime pal Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) is poised
on the verge of becoming a lovely young woman.
EdgeBoston:
But for the adults in the audience, the biggest surprise
might be the emergence of sensuality in he film. Emma
Watson is evolving into a stunning young woman.
Herorealm.com:
The three leads continue to grow and evolve with each
film proving that someone did an excellent job when
casting the first film.
SuburbanChicagonews:
As for Watson, she is managing to make Hermione a viable
love interest without sacrificing one ounce of the character's
trademark intelligence.
Denverpost.com:
Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, who portray Hermione and
Ron, do a fine job playing hormone-challenged characters.
The ship-smart Hermione is emerging into adult loveliness.
theStar.com:
Of the three child leads, only Emma Watson has improved
her acting skills to match a more demanding assignment.
Variety.com
Emma Watson's studious Hermione comes into her own at
the fabulous Christmas ball, which provides a breather
after the first task.
Oscarguy.com:
Some performers improve with age. Rupert Grint (Ron
Weasley) and Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) have become
decidedly better. They are able to convey adult emotions
effectively, having no doubt picked up a few pointers
from older and better actors like Maggie Smith.
Filmblather.com:
as well as the high point of Emma Watson's performance
in the franchise.
SouthFlorida.com:
As Harry, Ron and Hermione enter the awkward stage,
the young people portraying them -- Daniel Radcliffe,
Rupert Grint, Emma Watson -- grow ever more confident
as professional actors.
Filmfinder.com:
Watson's Hermione is positively blossoming.
SFGate.com:
The dress-up event is just the venue to show what splendid-looking
teenagers Grint, Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson have
grown into. Tweeners are likely to find Radcliffe's
Harry quite a hunk in a cerebral kind of way, accentuated
by his trademark glasses. Watson has an Audrey Hepburn
moment out of "Sabrina" when Hermione makes
a late appearance at the ball in a violet dress showing
a hint of cleavage.
MySA.com:
Radcliffe, Watson and Grint once again provide journeyman
service to their characters. They're all aging nicely
right along with their characters.
Movieboy.com:
The same things could be said for Watson, delightfully
warm and vulnerable as Hermione.
Oneguysopinion.com:
Emma Watson has grown if anything more engaging as Hermione
Granger.
Filmfocus.co.uk:
Radcliffe and his co-stars Emma Watson and Rupert Grint
have bloomed from cute kids into consummate acting professionals
and with each Potter film we're being reassured that
this series is more than just simple family entertainment.
(...) And Radcliffe, Grint and Watson, along with all
of the student cast, seem to find their place in this
world better than they've ever done before. There are
moments of true brilliance in each of their performances;
from Harry's fear at the challenges that face him in
the Triwizard tournament through to Hermione's upset
at having her Yule Ball ruined by her two dearest friends.
SF Examiner:
The performances have grown richer, notably Radcliffe
and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger.
Chicago Maroon:
Most of them are up to the task. Emma Watson as Hermione
Granger is a revelation, handling her character's transition
from nerdiness to grace with wonderful poise. She delivers
one of the movie's few sexual innuendos, and does it
with such wonderful timing and facial control that I
cannot wait to see her star in something front and center.
OneidaDispatch.com:
Of the trio, Emma Watson, now 15, as Hermione Granger,
is the one to really watch. Her character has grown
the most and she has a winning screen presence that
becomes stronger with each film.
DesMoinesRegister.com:
Watson, whose feisty tomboy performance is so endearing
to audiences.
Zap2it.com:
Watson gets her chance to blossom in the Yule Ball scene,
a splendidly produced wizard prom that ought to guarantee
the film Oscar nominations for costuming and production
design. In addition to being treated like a young woman
for the first time, Watson's Hermione has a great rant
at Ron that sets the groundwork for the excruciatingly
slowly developing romance between the two characters.
Davisenterprise.com:
and indeed Watson is given a moment to shed her tomboyish
clothes for a gorgeous gown at the Hogwarts Yule Ball,
which reveals the degree to which this now 15-year-old
young woman has matured, since the film series began
in 2001.
Cinema Center:
Emma Watson (Hermione) probably has the brightest future
as an actual actress,
123 India:
Watson as Hermione performs her most emotionally wrenching
scene when she lashes out at Ron for not asking her
to the ball early enough. In a fit of despair, she plants
herself on the stairs in her beautiful evening dress
with shoes that hurt. That is the most telling scene
as a rite of passage. They are experiencing adult emotions,
the innocence is lost, and Voldemort is waiting.
Alibi.com:
The film's young actors, fighting off the effects of
puberty as long as possible, continue to grow into their
roles. Emma Watson (playing Hermione) and Rupert Grint
(playing Ron), in particular, look to have fruitful
film careers after the Harry Potter series shuts down.
Cinematical:
Watson's Hermione may be the smartest student at Hogwarts,
but Watson plays her with real feelings, too, capturing
all the aching see-saw swings of adolescent emotion.
(Ron asks Hermione to the Yule Ball at the last moment;
she explains, tearfully, that she's already been asked
by another boy – and said yes. When she does make
her entrance to the ball, you can practically hear Neil
Diamond's ‘Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon' on the
soundtrack as she leaves Ron slack-jawed with her previously-unrevealed
glamour: From agony to victory, in a snap.)
Dunkirkma.net:
but of the teen actors, it's Emma Watson as Hermione
who steals the show, and rightfully so, for it's Hermione
that is the most mature, level headed, and ambitious
character, dealing with Harry and Ron's bumbling like
a surrogate mother, rather than a potential love interest.
Harry has his glorious moments, such as his broomstick
battle with a vicious Hungarian Horn Tail Dragon (the
film's most spectacular sequence), and Ron is good comic
relief, but the big set piece is the school ball, and
Watson, adorable and heartbreaking, shines as Hermione
chastises Ron and his jealousy for ruining what should
be one of a girl's most cherished memories, her first
school dance.
Post-Gazette.com:
Emma Watson's ever-faithful Hermione hasn't too much
to do but blossom, which she does nicely, especially
when the music moves from ballroom stock to rock at
that gorgeously photographed ice-palace dance.
Illusion:
Emma Watson, as befits a girl rushing headlong into
womanhood, is protective and grown up.
SciFi.com:
Talented Watson puts aside her character's annoying
"know-it-all" persona to reveal a budding
beauty who can't quite believe the spell she's cast
over Bulgarian hunk Viktor Krum (Stanislav Ianevski).
EFilmcritic.com #1:
but it's the kids who have really come on leaps and
bounds. Emma Watson is proving herself an actress of
real quality,
EFilmcritic.com #2:
Emma Watson may be growing into someone whom her schoolmates
may need extra books for, but professionally she gets
to play scenes of great emotion in the midst of a period
where Hermione is more the worrying galpal than the
“A” student one step ahead of the boys.
It's unfortunate to see this route taken with the character
after becoming the true hero of the Prisoner of Azkaban
, but it affords Watson moments that enrich the friendship
past soap operatic dilemmas of sadness. She develops
simple motions like hugging Harry before his impending
challenge into the weight which comes with the true
fear that those you love might be slipping away
EFilmcritic #3:
Daniel Ratcliffe and Emma Watson continue to amaze with
their ability to step right out of the pages as Harry
and Hermione.
Futuremovies.co.uk:
Emma Watson in particular is excellent as Hermione,
no longer giving you that Keira Knightley feeling of
dread every time she opens her mouth and another over-enunciated
over-elocuted speech emerges.
Baltimoresun.com:
The movie, of course, is called Harry Potter and the
Goblet of Fire, but Harry's budding-beautiful friend
Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) is the one who gives
it a glow. (...) Yet Hermione is the one who lets all
the comic-dramatic complications of their age play out
across her face. Watson is a natural in the role. The
centerpiece of the movie should be the three trials
Harry and a trio of rivals endure in a tri-school student-wizard
tournament. Instead, it's Hermione's appearance at the
Yule Ball in the company of a dashing Bulgarian champion.
Watson makes Hermione's entrance as lovely as Eliza
Doolittle's at the Embassy Ball in My Fair Lady.
Sunnews.com:
The battle of the hormones rages most noticeably at
Hogwarts' annual "Yule Ball," the grandly
picturesque holiday fete where Hermione (lovely little
Emma Watson) blossoms before our eyes, then goes into
a womanly funk that neither Harry nor Ron could possibly
understand.
Philly.com:
For the human factor, Newell relies on the vibrant Emma
Watson, whose Hermione is emerging as the real actor
of this teen wild bunch, as poised and focused as her
hair is flyaway. Of all the younger actors, only she
delivers something to Newell's in-your-face close-ups.
TheCrimson.com:
Emma Watson deserves straight Os in her acting OWLs
for finally bringing a full-blooded Hermione to screen.
She convincingly exudes incandescent giddiness in her
scenes at the Yule Ball, and turns a brief confrontation
with Ron over his belatedly asking her to the dance
into a teary confessional spectacle.
Advertiser.com:
The actors, particularly Daniel Radcliffe as
Harry and Rupert Grint as Ron, are growing into their
awkward teenage parts, and it's entertaining to watch.
Emma Watson, as Hermione, has some adorable and touching
moments at the Yule Ball, as the close of the evening
finds her sobbing on the castle steps as she unbuckles
her well-danced shoes
Comingsoon.net:
The performances of the three leads continues to mature
as they do. In particular, Emma Watson as Hermione Granger
comes into her own extremely well as she moves between
her concern and fear over Harry's (Daniel Radcliffe)
well being and her growing romance with Ron (Rupert
Grint).
JDNnews.com:
The main trio of Radcliffe, Watson and Grint continue
to improve their acting skills. Watson in particular
is a scene stealer…
Dailypilot.com:
Grint and Watson are really coming into their own as
actors
Summit Daily news:
The original three child actors have matured in their
skills, bringing more layers of depth to their characters.
Hermione (Emma Watson) particularly stands out with
her emergence as a beautiful young woman at the ball.
Daily Yomiuri:
Of the three, Watson turns in the most credible performance.
Journalnow.com:
Watson is truly coming into her own, giving a poised
and polished performance as Hermione.
The Guardian:
But the movie only becomes humanly interesting with
the excruciating prom-style ball which the young Hogwarts
scholars are forced to attend. It is here that Harry
and Ron find themselves furious, confused and resentful
to see that Hermione scrubs up into a premier-league
babe and is being squired by the young foreign wizard
superstar - but she'd accepted his invitation only because
she was sick of waiting for either of these two dullards
(particularly Ron) to do the decent thing and invite
her. Hermione is angry and heartbroken at their churlish
sneering, and Emma Watson's gutsy, confident performance
nicely shows that inside and outside the world of magic
there is a growing discrepancy between a teenage girl's
status and her accelerating emotional and intellectual
development.
Metro Weekly:
Watson is radiant -- she needs to be, as she has few
other opportunities to shine in the movie -- and for
the first time, you sense the emergence of a truly fine
actress.
TCG news:
Though Emma Watson's lovely face somewhat detracts from
the awkward eccentricity usually found among the bibliophile,
she still sparkles as Hermione, perfectly capturing
the plucky smarts of the independent woman.
News Tribune:
Newell's touch shows most prominently in the performances
of his three young leads: Daniel Radcliffe as Harry,
Rupert Grint as Ron and Emma Watson as Hermione. (..)
Though still small in stature, Radcliffe seems to have
filled out, bringing a more solid physical presence
to match Harry's resolve to take on the evil forces
stalking him. No longer relying on his signature frown,
Grint seems more solid as well, and Watson, always the
sturdiest of the three, adds new dimensions to Hermione
by showing the girl's growing awareness of her own beauty.
Epinions.com:
Emma Watson remains one of the best young actors in
the series as the always intelligent but now worrisome
Hermione as she is more maternal in her role while proving
to be a very beautiful young woman in that Yule Ball
scene
Movie Web:
The Goblet of Fire is a more mature story and its young
stars prove they have the acting skills to grow with
their characters. Emma Watson in particular does a wonderful
job. As the only girl with more than a few lines, she
carries the feminine weight of the film and balances
out Daniel Radcliffe's heroics
Blog Critics.org:
With movies like Into The West under his belt, where
he worked with children, Mike Newell has a proven track
record of eliciting performances from young actors.
While both Rupert Grint and Dan Radcliffe turn in their
expected performances as Ron and Harry respectively,
it's Emma Watson as Hermoine Granger who seems to have
benefited the most from him. This has to be her best
performance to date in the series, as she shows an emotional
range and depth far beyond what one would expect from
an actor of her age. Watch her crumble in the scene
at the end of the Yule Ball after she has yelled at
the boys. Why can't her friends be happy for her? Why,
if Ron didn't want to go with her, is he ruining her
night? Why does she care what Ron even thinks? Emma
may not be expressing each of those thoughts, but they
are there for us to read if we want.
SFsite.com:
And I'm sure Emma Watson is going to take the world
by storm someday. She was the real hero of Prisoner
of Azkaban , and here she gets to inject honest emotion
into scenes that could have easily been maudlin.
CanMag.com:
When it comes to the ‘children' and the rest of
the cast, some one should give the casting director
for the Potter films a raise. (…) Emma Watson
has aged and changed perfectly in tune with the books;
she is Hermione Granger.
