Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
FANTASTIC Beasts:
The Secrets of Dumbledore is directed by David Yates, and Professor Albus Dumbledore knows the powerful, dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he entrusts magizoologist Newt Scamander to lead an intrepid team of wizards and witches. They soon encounter an array of old and new beasts as they clash with Grindelwald’s growing legion of followers.
The first movie was pretty decent, I liked the first one. The second one was very disappointing, so I was very worried going into this film expecting the worst. But I’ll be honest, when it comes to this movie... it was much better than Crimes of Grindelwald, but that doesn’t mean it’s the greatest movie in the Harry Potter franchise.
Eddie Redmayne is really good as Newt Scamander once again, but Dan Fogler as Jacob steals the show again just like the other two films. I love Jude Law as Albus Dumbledore, I thought he really nailed the role. Unfortunately, for the rest of the characters, I thought they were forgettable, I didn’t know many of the characters. Mads Mikkelsen who now plays Grindelwald, I felt nothing from his character, he feels like another villain whom we’ve never seen before. I like Mads in other films, but as Grindelwald, I felt like the recast just didn’t work for me
I liked the sets, and some of the magic effects, I loved the moving images in newspapers and posters, that’s some attention to detail for the Harry Potter movies. In conclusion, I felt like that this movie just didn’t hit for me, but I’m glad the Harry Potter films got a 3rd Fantastic Beasts movie. And I’m giving this one a 5/10.