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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Warner Bros. Pictures

Heyday Films

United Kingdom

United States of America

English

Eddie Redmayne

Jude Law

Mads Mikkelsen

Ezra Miller

Dan Fogler

Alison Sudol

Callum Turner

Jessica Williams

Katherine Waterston

Oliver Masucci

Richard Coyle

William Nadylam

Maria Fernanda Cândido

Poppy Corby-Tuech

Victoria Yeates

Aleksandr Kuznetsov

Dave Wong

Fiona Glascott

Cara Mahoney

Maja Bloom

Wilf Scolding

Kazeem Tosin Amore

Noor Dillan-Night

Manuel Klein

Valerie Pachner

Ramona Kunze-Libnow

Lucas Englander

Jan Pohl

Matthias Brenner

Peter Simonischek

Jacqueline Boatswain

David Bertrand

Stefan Race

Jessica Cartledge

Rahda Sthanakiya

Isabelle Coverdale

Dónal Finn

Paul Low-Hang

Hebe Beardsall

Steve Kloves

J.K. Rowling

Fiona Weir

Christian Manz

James Newton Howard

Mark Day

Stuart Craig

Anna Pinnock

Josh Robertson

David Keadell

Stephen Woolfenden

Rowley Irlam

Roy Taylor

Alex Baily

Gary Tomkins

Paul Laugier

Huw Arthur

Tim Dutton

Ann Lynch

Rob Duncan

Ben Barker

Jeremy Woodhead

Julia Vernon

Laura Morse

Pamela Joyce

Emma Hazell

Alistair Williams

Katie Gabriel

Alexander Fabre

Gill Raddings

Jim Weidman

Allan Jenkins

David Olson

Daniel Hazeltine

Lucy Scarfe

Alexander T.H. Browne

Tolga Kenan

Niv Adiri

Andy Nelson

Johnathan Rush

Ian Tapp

Josh Berger

Michael Sharp

Neil Lamont

Colleen Atwood

Peter Dorme

Martin Foley

Oliver Goodier

Kate Grimble

Charlotte Malynn

Elicia Scales

James M. Spencer

Alastair Bullock

Rosie Hardwick

Olivia Muggleton

Andrew Proctor

Rebecca White

Justin Ackroyd

Glenn Freemantle

Katrin Arndt

Jean Bennamias

Russell Hopwood

Marco Lee

Massimo Meo

Geoff Pedder

Oliver Schulz

Ashlee Sutherland

Stacey Clare Richards

Reetu Aggarwal

Sarah Lochlan

David Yates

Esme Coleman

Jessica Hooker

David Heyman

Lionel Wigram

Tim Lewis

Neil Blair

Danny Cohen

Courtenay Valenti

George Richmond

Thomas Desjardins

Tim Wooster

Luke Tumber

Steve Ellingworth

Peter Hayley-Barker

Will Deville

Elliot Hawkes

Amy Djordjevic

Dave Ridout

Manuel São Bento

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://www.msbreviews.com/movie-reviews/fantastic-beasts-secrets-dumbledore-spoiler-free-review

"Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is a significant improvement over its predecessors, proving that Steve Kloves really can work miracles - J. K. Rowling still has a lot to learn.

By completely shifting the main focus of the franchise to the love relationship between Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald, as well as the exploration of the former's imperfections and the tragic, complex past of his family, it gains an emotionally powerful, genuinely fascinating narrative component. Jude Law and Mads Mikkelsen's superb performances broadly contribute to this.

Too bad the first half suffers from the constant tweaks to the saga, taking once-important characters through irrelevant side adventures and repairing plot points established in earlier installments, seriously undermining the previous films and negatively affecting the pacing of this one.

The boat is no longer sinking, but the damage might be too much to continue sailing..."

Rating: B

Chris Sawin

It feels like The Secrets of Dumbledore spends more time allowing characters to blather on and adamantly stare out windows over actually delivering worthwhile wizard action, which is essentially what people want to see in films like this.

Full review: https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/04/18/fantastic-beasts-the-secrets-of-dumbledore-review-a-broken-franchise-filled-with-disjointed-magic/

Meh again.

<em>'Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore'</em> isn't any worse than the two films it follows, which is a minor positive at least. I'd actually put it above 1 but just below 2, though I'm splitting hairs really. I just feel all three are simply missing that little something extra, yet I'm not sure exactly what.

I also feel the same about the cast as I do for the preceding instalments, with the likes of Eddie Redmayne and Jude Law not doing much for me; though Law is at his best in the role here. I will say, however, that I did mildly enjoy Jessica Williams' performance.

The pacing is a tad iffy, if nothing super slow. The ending does feel delayed, I would've personally cut a decent chunk of it to be honest. The dialogue and humour is average, but one scene involving Pickett and Teddy did make me laugh in fairness.

All in all, I'm undoubtedly underwhelmed by these spin-offs/prequels to the great <em>'Harry Potter'</em> franchise.

We just want Story.  It felt like the entire movie was filler plot with no substance.  Perhaps JK wanted it to be a trilogy and WB wanted more so they filled in a bunch of nothingness like the Hobbit trilogy or the Mandalorian.

Didn't care much for the first one, really disliked the second and this one continues that trend. At two hours plus, this was an absolute bore mainly because I didn't care about the plot (as thin as it is) and characters that, even three films in, I have no attachment to. I guess a positive is Jude Law was okay as Dumbledore and the effects were fine when I could tell what the heck was going on since this was so dimly lit. Honestly don't know how this series can keep going though I imagine it'll probably be destined for HBO Max if it happens at all. **1.75/5**

Per Gunnar Jonsson

I have to confess that I went into watching this movie with quite some negative bias following woke Disney’s dismissal of Johnny Depp. Not that I am such a great fan of Depp but it was just wrong. Woke Disney’s asshats have been trying to get rid of him since the first Pirates movie so they used a bullshit excuse to get rid of him.

Then already in the first couple of scenes woke Disney goes full woke to cater for a very small but loudmouthed minority. Totally unnecessary since the vast majority do not care and a lot of said majority are simply fed up by having woke shit crammed into the movies for no justifiable reason whatsoever.

So, for me, this movie did get off to a poor start indeed.

Unfortunately the rest of the movie had literally nothing in it to remedy this bad start except for a bunch of special effects. I really do not understand what woke Disney thought when the put this franchise killer together.

The first movie, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in the franchise was a great movie. It was colorful, it was family oriented and it was filled with magic and fantastic beasts. It was fun, it was humorous and it had a bit of adventure in it.

This movie is nothing like that. Why they call it Fantastic Beasts I do not understand. They should call it Boring Political Drama in the Potter Universe instead.

It is dark, grey and, mostly, boring. It is not really a family movie. A lot of the time not much is happening except people walking, standing or sitting and looking gloomy. There are some outbursts of magic action and these are really the only enjoyable scenes in the movie thanks to the special effects.

They even managed to drag the supposedly happy ending epilogue out to become frustratingly boring. Amazing how Disney, who has made so many enjoyable family movies, has transformed into woke Disney spewing out one disaster after another.

Robbie Grawey

Overly long and largely unmemorable. I long to feel something other than apathy during this series.

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