Review of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) by Kathryn B — 26 Nov 2018

You're given an IP as large as Harry Potter, and what do you do? You give it a shaky camera, hyper zoom on faces (to the point you might as well count all their pores) and turn a movie into a VR roller coaster.

It's just shoddy filming in general. David Yates comes from a TV series background, and sure enough, Fantastic Beasts reads like one, and not as a standalone movie. YOU HAVE ENOUGH CONTENT (and in this case, far too much content), the problem is that your guidance of this content is slack.

I feel like Warner Bros should try out another Director like they used to do with the first Harry Potter movies. The strangest, most unimportant scenes were chosen, even if they were nice visually, they held no weight and should have been cut out.

Like the beginning in the magical creature reserve, cool, but ultimately pointless. Fantastic Beasts should have been about Newt and his obsession with magical creatures. Crimes of Grindelwald should have been it's own separate series about the complex feelings of Albus and Gellert.

They really should not have been combined. Too much of the story is given by telling, instead of showing. I blame that on direction, not the source of that content. (aka the internet has made a past time out of making fun of jkr, but all the faults I see lay upon david yates and warner bros).