And its directionless story feels like a time-filler, as if they must do something until they get to the fifth movie. But The Secrets of Dumbledore doesn't quite have a protagonist. These movies should've always been about the two greats, Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) and Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen replacing Johnny Depp), whose teenage love story is finally acknowledged - in words - on Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. While Rowling decided on the encyclopaedia's author Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) as the gateway into the world, he's not central to the bigger picture.
Moreover, the Fantastic Beasts movies are really struggling with the hero switcheroo. All of Fantastic Beasts has seemed like a case of making it up as we go along from Rowling and Co., thanks to the fact that there's no source material for these movies.įantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Review: A Clueless, Forgettable EntryĬharacters that were central in earlier movies are forgotten or removed with the flimsiest of excuses. Still, The Secrets of Dumbledore ends up making some of the same mistakes as its predecessors. Or maybe it was simply because the bar had been set so low by The Crimes of Grindelwald that there was no way to go but up. That said, I didn't actively hate Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore like I did the last one.
The magic went out of these movies long ago - and the third of five planned chapters, The Secrets of Dumbledore, is unable to truly put a finger on it. All of which results in more money via tie-in toys, books, merchandising, and associated products.Īnd creatively frankly, Fantastic Beasts has largely been for nothing. Warner Bros., the billionaire Rowling, and those profiting off it continue churning out new Fantastic Beasts movies because it makes them richer. Making more Wizarding World content - let's face it, that's how they see it - is solely in the interest of the powers that be.
Seriously, why is “ Fantastic Beasts” still in the title of these movies? It's utterly meaningless. They were fashioned from the strangest of crucibles, with an in-world encyclopaedia being turned into the starting point. No one ever really asked for these movies. It's the kind of situation that has got me thinking if it's time for the Harry Potter universe to be laid to rest.
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