Way better than the crimes of grindelwald, but clearly not as good as fantastic beasts and where to find them. I was happy to see that the story actually included some fantastic beasts (which shouldn't really be a relieve to see in a movie with fantastic beasts in the title but well...) and it had beautiful cgi. The movie had some flaws however. The main one is that nothing really changed from the beginning of the movie vs the end. Grindelwald is still at large and we learn about a bond between Dumbledore and him. But after explaining there is no way to break the bond, the next time it really came up the bond broke... (no change begin vs end and also a huge flaw lmao).
Furthermore it was (at least to me) very clear they wanted to be inclusive and have some diversity, by placing one person of color on each team. At least Lally added something, but Kama had exactly zero impact in the whole movie. He went to Grindelwald to spy but also not and that was it?? Maybe in a next movie (if there will be one) they might do something with it.
Some minor irritations were that Dumbledore was mostly introduced as that, and not Albus, even though his brother (also Dumbledore) was quite present in the movie. In the Harry Potter series it makes sense because he is a teacher/headmaster/elderly and its respectful. But to me it didn't really make sense in the context (except Dumbledore being more known as a name for viewers)
The other irritation was about the death of the qilin. It looked like a killing curse (which would make sense) but then the body is not completely dead since the egg came out (idk fantastic biology but it doesn't really make sense to me) and it had tears quite some time after the curse.
Then, last but not least, the most frustrating part of the movie: the qilin choosing Dumbledore out of all people. The whole point was that it would only choose those with a pure heart or something like that, and that it is really rare it would bow for anyone. We learn some of dumbledores secrets (ha! That's the name of the movie!) so I would say he wouldn't really qualify, at least not yet, but that is not the criteria. It felt really like an easy pleaser for the audience. I would have preferred it if it would bow for Newt (he is so pure :heart:) or Jacob (a great person) if they were to include it. You could argue that Newt cares more about animals than people so thats why he wouldn't qualify (or the people would call him a fraud because he is quite personal with the qilin) and Jacob is a muggle and therefore not worthy, but those would have been better choices than The Great Albus Dumbledore imo.
Anyways even though I had some critiques, I did enjoy the movie greatly. It just wasn't really a good movie with a good plot or anything. Just your basic blockbuster. But if you expect a great time you will enjoy it, because it is a beautiful watch with some funny moments. The art of David Yates.
Review by MIKAfan33VIP BlockedParent2024-03-11T15:55:32Z
Way better than the crimes of grindelwald, but clearly not as good as fantastic beasts and where to find them. I was happy to see that the story actually included some fantastic beasts (which shouldn't really be a relieve to see in a movie with fantastic beasts in the title but well...) and it had beautiful cgi.
The movie had some flaws however. The main one is that nothing really changed from the beginning of the movie vs the end. Grindelwald is still at large and we learn about a bond between Dumbledore and him. But after explaining there is no way to break the bond, the next time it really came up the bond broke... (no change begin vs end and also a huge flaw lmao).
Furthermore it was (at least to me) very clear they wanted to be inclusive and have some diversity, by placing one person of color on each team. At least Lally added something, but Kama had exactly zero impact in the whole movie. He went to Grindelwald to spy but also not and that was it?? Maybe in a next movie (if there will be one) they might do something with it.
Some minor irritations were that Dumbledore was mostly introduced as that, and not Albus, even though his brother (also Dumbledore) was quite present in the movie. In the Harry Potter series it makes sense because he is a teacher/headmaster/elderly and its respectful. But to me it didn't really make sense in the context (except Dumbledore being more known as a name for viewers)
The other irritation was about the death of the qilin. It looked like a killing curse (which would make sense) but then the body is not completely dead since the egg came out (idk fantastic biology but it doesn't really make sense to me) and it had tears quite some time after the curse.
Then, last but not least, the most frustrating part of the movie: the qilin choosing Dumbledore out of all people. The whole point was that it would only choose those with a pure heart or something like that, and that it is really rare it would bow for anyone. We learn some of dumbledores secrets (ha! That's the name of the movie!) so I would say he wouldn't really qualify, at least not yet, but that is not the criteria. It felt really like an easy pleaser for the audience. I would have preferred it if it would bow for Newt (he is so pure :heart:) or Jacob (a great person) if they were to include it. You could argue that Newt cares more about animals than people so thats why he wouldn't qualify (or the people would call him a fraud because he is quite personal with the qilin) and Jacob is a muggle and therefore not worthy, but those would have been better choices than The Great Albus Dumbledore imo.
Anyways even though I had some critiques, I did enjoy the movie greatly. It just wasn't really a good movie with a good plot or anything. Just your basic blockbuster. But if you expect a great time you will enjoy it, because it is a beautiful watch with some funny moments. The art of David Yates.
rating: 7/10
posted: 15th april 2022