Secrets of Dumbledore

Wizarding world's best and perhaps only magi zoologist Newt Scamander is back, this time to aid a rather younger, slightly helpless Albus Dumbeldore to save ...

The film, therefore, is not really for the young Potter heads because it talks of some complex issues that the world and mankind at large have faced throughout history. He aims to destroy the muggles and take control of the world with the help of dark arts. With time they realised that they both wanted to change the world but had a different approach to it and decided to part ways but with a blood pact, which forbids them from killing each other.

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Not as innately heroic as her sister, she gets swept up in the momentum of the good fight because of her abilities, and because of the bond she forms with Jacob Kowalski. This latter relationship is what allows her to be swayed to the side of Grindelwald, with his promises of a wizard-witch utopia, one granting the freedom to love—and befriend—whomever they please. In the work he has done—61 acting credits spanning 24 years—he plays a rather diverse array of characters in a diverse array of genres. Tina’s outgoing sister and fellow New Yorker, Queenie ( Alison Sudol) is a half-blood witch who’s able to pull memories and feelings from the minds of others. Waterston (another Londoner, for those keeping score) has been publicly critical of JK Rowling’s transphobic rhetoric, so fans are left to speculate if this has had an impact on how her slice of the story will be told going forward, or if it’s merely some spoiler-avoidant editing in service of some narrative surprise. It’s a dream he shared with Dumbledore. When a tragedy ended their friendship, Grindelwald did not continue down a noble path, but one driven by a fascistic belief in the superiority of magical beings over all others. Miller generally has two big acting modes — exuberant ball of light, and simmering volatility, and it is the latter he brings to Credence. The dashing, younger version of the character in Fantastic Beasts was introduced in the second film. This implies the possession of great power, a gift very attractive to the manipulative, destructive Gellert Grindelwald, who begins grooming him for recruitment early on. As the Beasts films worked to get their cultural footing, Newt proved to be one of the easier elements of them to embrace. Add to that the lack of source material, and it can be easy to forget not just who this story’s about, but what it’s about. Hogwarts professor Albus Dumbledore is the only wizard who knows this villain well enough to stop him, and must recruit Magizoologist adventurer Newt Scamander in this fight. This is only the third film in the franchise, with the first debuting 6 years ago.

Fantastic Beasts The Secrets Of Dumbledore movie review: It's strike 3 for this uninspired, confused franchise trying to milk the magic of Harry Potter ...

I could talk about the bland, lifeless visuals (the Wizarding World never looked so washed out and colourless). I could talk about the numerous blurry, disorienting CGI magical duels (were wizard duels in the Harry Potter movies always this dull?). I could tell you that you barely feel Grindelwald's Hitler-like campaign (he’s minimally threatening and unlike Voldemort, you hardly get a sense of his rising influence and the fear it brings). I could tell you the movie’s structure and rhythm are off. This messily brings us to Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore - a poorly crafted, woefully disjointed, joyless slog of a third film (literally everyone is sad in this movie) that becomes increasingly pointless as it goes on. But at this stage, with this franchise all you’d hope is that at the very least, it works as a I-don't-care-about-the-story-just-give-us-cool-magical-action blockbuster. So desperate was the franchise, in fact, that they literally invented a Dumbledore. The grand revelation of the second movie was that Ezra Miller’s Credence was secretly a Dumbledore nobody knew about (who somehow ended up in Queens New York...) All I could remember about it before going into this third (and hopefully final) one, was that there was something about a strained brother-sister equation that I couldn't for the life of me follow or feel for. 20 years ago saw the beginnings of one of the most enchanting good vs evil stories ever seen on screen. While I’ll admit I only have fond memories of the first movie which allowed us to revisit the Wizarding World that many of us hold so dear and gave us a fresh crop of genuinely endearing characters. (They repeatedly and hearteningly make it clear that Dumbledore is canonically gay). There’s also Professor Hicks (Jessica Williams whose distracting sassy 70s accent makes it near impossible to take her seriously). There’s also Newt’s muggle friend Jacob Kowalski from the first two films (the lovable Dan Fogler) who's asked to join them on this dangerous mission despite him having no discernible skills or real use. We’re supposed to give each release our entire focus and attention, be honest to our experience of it and attempt to have a meaningful conversation around it. But it’s an honesty that dwindles and dissipates in their follow-ups, where a single movie’s story and characters get stretched beyond their limits, forced into trilogies they don’t need or earn. While I wouldn’t necessarily call it easy, the role of a movie reviewer is a simple one.

Adapted by Steve Kloves from a screenplay by JK Rowling, with Harry Potter veteran David Yates directing, The Secrets of Dumbledore is an ambitiously sprawling ...

Opening with the revelation that Dumbledore (Jude Law) once loved Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen), with whom he swore a ‘blood-troth’ to ‘reshape the world’, the story is woven around an impending election, with Grindelwald determined to take control of the Ministry of Magic. A more streamlined story would have been far more effective, but Yates tries to shoehorn in a teeming cast, of whom only Mads Mikkelsen — wonderfully smug as the evil Grindelwald — the diffident Eddie Redmayne, and an avuncular Jude Law have the opportunity to leave their mark. JK Rowling’s fans might argue otherwise, but the fact that(12A) boasts as many (or few) fantastic creatures as it does secrets of Dumbledore is not necessarily a good thing.