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FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD

(2018)

AGE: 10+

30% SOUR

So What’s the Story?

In the second installment to the beasts franchise. Grindelwald has escaped from prison in order to achieve his goal of wiping out all half bloods, and muggles. Dumbledore sends Newt to stop him from doing so. As he reunites with his friends he heads out to paris to find hidden secrets from the past, and to find, and stop Grindelwald from unleashing his entire army upon the world.

Is It Worth Your While?

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald was a complete disappointment for this evolving franchise, and for the Harry Potter franchise as well. Now here are my reasons. First of all the directing was so messy with out of control special effects all over the place, and not a good story or script to stop this problem. I mean this is the fantastic director of most of the new Harry Potter movies, and the first Fantastic Beasts as well. Overall I think that the directing was so much worse than the classical style of the original. Next I thought that the whole plot was just so boring, and had not enough twists or turns to keep you going. Also I could not quite point out what was going on in the movie because it was just confusing, and downright messy. Next I thought that the script was completely flawed, and did not work with the actors at all. I mean this is J.K. Rowling we are talking about right now, and it really just seemed like she rushed the entire thing. The only decent thing about the movie was that the special effects were pretty amazing, but again there’s really no surprise there. Overall I thought that Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald had good special effects, but a terrible story, and script.

How Was The Cast

Even the cast in the film did not do as well as the first one. First we have Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander. Now Eddie is a great actor in every one of his movies that he plays in, but the main flaw in this one is that he seemed to not work well with the terrible script, and I can’t blame him. Next we have Johnny Depp as Grindelwald. Two things you need to know before casting this dude into a movie. One, he is not fit to play a scary character, but he can do weird characters such as his previous role of Jack Sparrow. Two, casting him in this movie was the worst thing ever done to him. He had this fake accent that just made me cringe throughout the movie. Third we have Katherine Waterston as Tina Goldstein. Even she was not as good in this as in the first. She lacked the right amount of chemistry, and emotional depth with the characters, and seemed confused about what was going on during the movie. Fourth we have Dan Fogler as Jacob Kowalski. All I can say is that he went a little over the top in this film, and lacked so much of the humor from the first one. Fifth, and finally we have Jude Law as Albus Dumbledore. It was a creative idea to show young Dumbledore in the film, but it ended up to be a bad finale. Jude Law was a terrible choice for the role, and could have done so much better if he wanted to.

Aging ‘The Beasts’

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald has mild action sequences. Grindelwald is a semi scary character for younger children. There is some flirting, and a premise that may be too confusing for younger ages. Some characters in it are strange, and completely weird. Overall I recommend this film to older kids, and up.