Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

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.

  • Released: 2022-04-06
  • Runtime: 142 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
  • Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Jude Law, Mads Mikkelsen, Ezra Miller, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, Claudia Kim, Jessica Williams, Oliver Masucci, Richard Coyle, Callum Turner, William Nadylam, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Tony McCarthy, Poppy Corby-Tuech, Victoria Yeates, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Dave Wong, Fiona Glascott, Cara Mahoney, Maja Bloom, Paul Low-Hang, 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, Hebe Beardsall, Jeremy Azis, Nick Davison, Emilia Karlsson, Tony McCarthy, Sean Talo
  • Director: David Yates
 Comments
  • averagedeveloper - 12 May 2024
    Look where human greed has brought a brand; madness, sheer madness
    Every point I give is solely for the film's impeccable scene design, costumes, and aesthetics that money can buy, and for the nostalgia of hearing Harry Potter-esque music. I would rate the plot and narrative as zero, but it's not even zero because there's none. There is absolutely no plot and narrative. Things just happen in the film, simply because something needs to happen for the film to progress. Almost nothing on the screen has any meaning. I already anticipated that the film wouldn't be very meaningful within the trilogy, but it's even senseless within itself.

    The mere thought of Jude Law and Mads Mikkelsen as Dumbledore and Grindelwald should have been exhilarating. How such a talented cast was subjected to such a poor screenplay is beyond comprehension.

    There is only way this film could be deemed successful. If the producers and business people behind the brands understand that movies are not machines which you push money in from one end and have more money come out from the other end. Like cash-dispensing ATMs. But rather recognizing movies as an art form.
  • Nostrama - 11 January 2024
    huge let down
    After the first two movies, hopes were high, then this one, huge let down, great visual effects but just a huge disappointment in terms of plot

    this lacked the energy of previous movies, feeling like it was just being made to fill space and drag out half an hour of story into a full movie

    and to add to it, while the first movies were set in the 1920s, this one was deliberately shunted forward ten years just to push the themes of the 1930s just to take an otherwise lifeless wooden villain and slap on a beaten dead horse trope of making him a nazi, fairly devoid of any character or personality like voldemort, or lestrange or any others from the potterverse, and just being generic nametag evil

    and in the end he escapes likely a faint hint that they plan to milk the dead cashcow of potterverse with another soulless movie later.