'Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald': Immersive, but shallow (Movie Review)

'Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald':

Immersive, but shallow (Movie Review) Also, like in its previous edition, the magical creatures themselves appear in mostly irrelevant, but nonetheless enjoyable side-scenes.

'Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald': Immersive, but shallow (Movie Review) on Business Standard. Film: "Fantastic Beasts 2"; Director: David Yates; Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Zoe Kravitz, Jude Law & Johnny Depp.

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» "The Crimes of Grindelwald", the second

instalment of J.K. Rowling's five-part Harry Potter prequel, is an immersive magical adventure into the Wizarding World. It has its moments of wonder and delight, yet it gets bogged down in its efforts to keep up to the Fantastic Beasts franchise.

The film picks up some six months after the events of the first Fantastic Beasts film, in the year 1927. The powerful dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald, who was captured in the first edition with the help of Newt Salamnder, finally makes good on his promise to escape MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America) custody, while he is being transported to Europe and immediately sets about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda; to raise up pure-blood wizards and witches, to rule over all nonmagical beings.

Fantastic Beasts 2 Movie Review On the other hand, while Newt (Eddie Redmayne) has returned to London, leaving Tina (Katherine Waterston) behind in New York, Credence Barebone (Ezra Miller) - the abused wizard with an Obscurus parasite who managed to survive his showdown with MACUSA -- is now travelling through Paris secretly with a wizard circus, in the hope of uncovering the truth about his parents and family.

Newt is summoned by his former Hogwarts professor Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) to find Credence before Grindelwald does. Thus begins an international chase taking place between London, New York, Hogwarts and eventually Paris, where the majority of the action takes place.

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