Review of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) by Makor — 20 Nov 2018

While the first fantastic beasts movie wasnt great, it atleast felt like it had some heart and a nice story to tell. The sequel however feels uninspired and messy. The worst thing about the movie in my opinion was the pacing, the story switches between so many characters , and non of them feel very human or likeable. Things just seem to happen so the movie can show you some expensive CGI magic, and then move on to the next stupid character. And the characters really dont hold up. While the original Harry potter story had a few strong, main characters. Fantastic beasts has maybe one, Newt. He is likeable and rather interresting, but the movie tries to show you the story from everyones perspective, and it ends up kind of ruining the movie, because almost all of them suck. The acting sadly wasnt good enough to hold up the sometimes terrible dialog and characters just dont seem like real people.

The story is real heavy on fan service in my opinion, as it all revolves around setting up the main Harry Potter story, and making nothing a coincedence in that story. Everything needs to be connected. But then again just as much of the story is about the AMAZING magic and the TRAGIC heatbreak of the love stories the movie features. Sadly it feels old and kind of cliche, which is the last thing this overproduced film needs.

One thing I did like about the movie is its music, Quite a few times, I looked away from the bad movie, and just enjoyed the good music that was playing in the background.

Will probably be trying to find some sort of soundtrack to listen to sometime.

All in all, the movie needs you to either be a hardcore HP fan, who will swallow up anything Rowling makes. Or someone who just wants to see a stupid lovestory cliche, with some cool magic.