Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is the franchise’s Attack of the Clones when it should be The Last Jedi

Significant spoilers ahead for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

2016’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them had its issues: two years ago, I wrote that the first film in the Fantastic Beasts franchise was the Phantom Menace of Harry Potter films, with the same childish, pandering humor and inability to choose a tone. It seems like the people behind the series’s second film, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, learned that lesson. But Crimes is still stuck in the same mold as its predecessor. It’s the Attack of the Clones of the Potter world when it needs to be The Last Jedi.

The surface similarities between the two middle movies’ plots practically write themselves: both films are older, darker second installments...

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