Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)
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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.
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... Newt Scamander
... Albus Dumbledore
... Gellert Grindelwald
... Credence Barebone / Aurelius Dumbledore
... Jacob Kowalski
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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
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Release Date:
2022-04-06
Run Time:
142 min
MMPA Rating:
PG-13
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
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
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.
'Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore' 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 'Harry Potter' 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.
Nice!!!
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**
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.
Overly long and largely unmemorable. I long to feel something other than apathy during this series.
Cast & Crew of
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Cast
... Newt Scamander
... Albus Dumbledore
... Gellert Grindelwald
... Credence Barebone / Aurelius Dumbledore
... Jacob Kowalski
... Queenie Goldstein
... Theseus Scamander
... Eulalie 'Lally' Hicks
... Porpentina 'Tina' Goldstein
... Anton Vogel
... Aberforth Dumbledore
... Yusuf Kama
... Vicência Santos
... Vinda Rosier
... Bunty Broadacre
... Helmut
... Liu Tao
... Minerva McGonagall
... Waitress
... Carrow
... Frank Doyle (Workman #1)
... Workman #2
... Workman #3
... Tall Auror
... Henrietta Fischer
... Edith (Elderly Matron)
... Horst
... Ministry Official
... Otto
... Warder
... Ida Webb (British Witch)
... Victor (French Minister)
... Karl (Dark-Eyed Waiter)
... Redheaded Ravenclaw
... Tiny Witch #1
... Tiny Witch #2
... Albert (Baker)
... Zabini
... Ariana Dumbledore (uncredited)
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... Editor
... Original Music Composer
... Set Decoration
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... Art Direction
... Supervising Music Editor
... Visual Effects Supervisor
... Production Coordinator
... First Assistant Director
... Second Assistant Director
... Art Direction
... Special Effects Supervisor
... Hair Designer
... Animal Coordinator
... Stunt Coordinator
... Post Production Supervisor
... Supervising Sound Editor
... Key Makeup Artist
... Music Editor
... Music Editor
... Stunt Coordinator
... Assistant Art Director
... Second Unit Director
... Art Direction
... Key Hair Stylist
... Art Direction
... Makeup Designer
... Prosthetic Designer
... Special Effects Coordinator
... Makeup Supervisor
... Associate Producer
... Hair Supervisor
... Production Manager
... Visual Effects
... Set Production Assistant
... VFX Artist
... Stunts
... Sound Re-Recording Mixer
... Sound Re-Recording Mixer
... Sound Re-Recording Mixer
... Sound Re-Recording Mixer
... Costume Design
... Production Design
... Executive Producer
... Executive Producer
... Art Direction
... Art Direction
... Assistant Art Director
... Visual Effects Producer
... Visual Effects Producer
... Assistant Art Director
... VFX Artist
... Supervising Art Director
... Visual Effects Supervisor
... Art Direction
... Art Direction
... Set Dresser
... Visual Effects
... VFX Artist
... Supervising Art Director
... Art Direction
... Assistant Art Director
... VFX Artist
... Sound Designer
... Art Direction
... Supervising Sound Editor
... Assistant Art Director
... Visual Effects Producer
... Set Costumer
... Original Series Creator
... 3D Artist
... Stunts
... Director
... Digital Compositor
... Stunts
... Producer
... Producer
... Producer
... Executive Producer
... Executive Producer
... Producer
... Producer
... Executive Producer
... Director of Photography
... VFX Artist
... Second Unit Director of Photography
... Stunts
... Key Grip
... Best Boy Grip
... Unit Production Manager
... Unit Production Manager
... Stunts
... Stunts
... Post Production Coordinator
... Rigging Gaffer
... Gaffer
... Lighting Technician
... Chief Lighting Technician
... Dolly Grip
... First Assistant Editor
... Digital Intermediate Editor
... First Assistant Editor
... Stunts
... Creative Director
... Stunts
... Stunts
... Assistant Accountant
... Visual Effects Supervisor
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