Rowling, and returning to help is Steve Kloves. The film is directed by David Yates, with a screenplay by J.
Rowling's Harry Potter series, overall being the eleventh film set in the wizarding world. This is mostly because producers wanted to wash off the stink of Depp’s public persona, but also perhaps because the actor nearly cast the previous film’s audience under a sleepy-time-tea spell, so lifeless was his performance as Grindelwald.Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is a direct sequel to Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, and the third instalment of the series of films based on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, one of the companion books to J. It is all extraordinarily interminable, even if Yates and company had the good sense to swap out Johnny Depp for Mikkelsen this time around. There are visits to super-scorpion-guarded prisons and mountaintop castles and even a prolonged stretch in Berlin, where the filmmakers cannot seem to decide whether their Third Reich metaphor is too crass or too smart for their fans. Perhaps a quick assassination – or, you know, a spell! – might do the trick, but for some reason Dumbledore has Newt and his friends embark on a series of truly go-nowhere missions, each more pointless than the last. The gist: Just before the start of the Second World War, magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) is set on a journey by a young Dumbledore to stop the Hitler-like Grindelwald, who wants to start a race war between wizards and non-magic muggles. Director David Yates and screenwriter Steve Kloves, who are both as much a part of the Wizarding World by now as Rowling herself (or maybe we should start calling her She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named), seem to recognize their film’s need for a glossary, stopping the action several times to reintroduce key players and rehash events. If this is where the Wizarding World is going – maturing with its audience, rather than insisting on continuing to infantilize it – then let’s do it, boys! Unfortunately, the tension that Grindelwald first sniffs in the air dissipates almost immediately, turning The Secrets of Dumbledore into as much a franchise chore as any contemporary “cinematic universe.”Ĭompletely impenetrable to audiences who haven’t watched all eight Harry Potter films plus the previous two Fantastic Beasts adventures (the last one which was released four long years ago), The Secrets of Dumbledore is alternately overloaded and bare-cupboard empty. Rowling’s Harry Potter spin-off/prequel/whatever-you-want-to-call-it, as these two magic men square off over the fate of the world with their sturdy wands. There is an undeniably smouldering love story built into J.K.
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