![]() ![]() Newt’s greatest fear is working in an office, so his boggart is a miserable little desk with a typewriter that turns into a snarling monster.Īlbus is now well-known to be gay, and in this film he reveals himself to have been as close as brothers with a certain character as a young man. Albus of course is Newt’s former teacher, and there is a very funny flashback scene when he encourages younger Newt to come face-to-face with his boggart, the form of his worst fear. Dan Fogler reprises his likeable turn as Newt’s no-maj pal Jacob, who is still together with Tina’s sister Queenie (Alison Sudol).īut the most striking newcomer is young Albus Dumbledore, well played by Jude Law, an enigmatic and charming figure who persuades Newt that he must travel to Paris to find Credence and confront his own destiny. Tina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston) is also in Paris on wizarding business, and poor Newt is still in love with her, but she has cooled on him, due to a misunderstanding about his relationship with Leta Lestrange (Zoë Kravitz), who is engaged to Newt’s brother Theseus (Callum Turner), an official magic functionary who is trying to rehabilitate Newt’s reputation with the powers that be. Is he good or evil? The choice isn’t as simple as that. In Paris we are reacquainted with a now vitally important figure: Credence, a troubled young man played by Ezra Miller, who may hold the key to the future of wizarding. ![]() Grindelwald begins in custody, the way we left him at the end of the last film, a brooding Lecterian figure who is far from resigned to incarceration. Having said which: the architectural detail of JK Rowling’s creativity is as awe-inspiring as ever. But I couldn’t help feeling that the narrative pace was a little hampered, and that we are getting bogged down, just a bit, in a lot of new detail. It is just as spectacular as the wonderful opening film, with lovingly realised creatures, witty inventions and sprightly vignettes. But as so often with fantasy adventure, the stormclouds are rolling in and the story is inexorably weighted towards a titanic battle of good and evil. Rowling’s Wizarding World epic includes specific references to the Hogwarts universe that we already know and love, younger versions of the old characters, and so in some ways has a more prequelised look, with hints of an origin myth. The storyline is initially clotted with sneaky narrative about-turns, reactivating characters from the last film, rescuing them from apparent destruction or memory loss there are unresolved mysteries and a general sense of disquieting forces and intricate implications that may take many films to sort out. This second adventure in JK Rowling’s movie series about unworldly young magizoologist Newt Scamander, engagingly played by Eddie Redmayne, takes the inevitable darker and more sombre turn. Don't waste my time.Fewer beasts more crimes. Unless there's a change to the screenwriter and the director, I'm not watching the next segment. Eddie Redmayne as the main lead Newt Scamander felt like a fly on the wall as CGI took over with all the myriad characters and subplots creating more meandering and tested my patience. You don't see Grindelwald, you just see Johnny Depp. I have to say Johnny Depp didn't fit in this universe at all, as his celebrity status came across as bigger than the character. Sadly, it was one too many bad actors and terrible acting. The uneven pacing and poor direction gave me cause to yawn, The one thing that really got me irritated was the ensemble cast in this latest "universe". For a die hard fan, I left the cinema feeling betrayed and milked by a greedy film studio and an author who should leave writing screenplays to real screenplay writers. What a disappointment! Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald was such a waste of time that I could have slept right through and woken up just for the final 15 minutes and never missed a thing. ![]()
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