Following the Wizarding World, the Universe canon appears to be a difficult task, especially because the universe’s author is continuously updating it. The last picture, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, seemed to toss aside all moviegoers understood about the history of the Harry Potter universe, resulting in a shambles.
Though there are still many canonical issues, The Secrets of Dumbledore attempts to right some wrongs by finally answering fan questions, such as Credence’s (Ezra Miller) family history, Queenie’s (Alison Sudol) unexpected heel turn, and who is Jessica Williams’ character we randomly saw instructing the eternal wizard Nicolas Flamel in the previous film.
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is set pre to World War II, with Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) and Grindelwald (now Mads Mikkelsen) seeking to arbitrate Grindelwald’s intentions to overthrow the Muggle world. Dumbledore and Grindelwald must find somebody to complete the task for them due to their ironclad commitment not to hurt each other—and fundamentally their love for one another.
Grindelwald, who has some plots in the works, hopes that Credence would utilize his rage at being abandoned by the Dumbledore family to destroy Albus’ life. Meanwhile, Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), our resident magizoologist, is on the hunt for a beast known as the Chilean to safeguard in his sanctuary.
While the new film is far improved from the previous one, the storyline once again begins chaotically and is overloaded with material that may or may not be relevant to the plot. Instead of just going ahead with the story, the film repeatedly repeats the previous film in an attempt to fill in the holes left by that film.
The screenplay for Dumbledore, written by J.K. Rowling and Steve Kloves, is just too much to take in in the first two acts, leaving even the most informed Potter fans scratching their heads. The film’s directing, by David Yates, is similarly erratic, eventually calming down by the third act, which concludes with a satisfactory climax.
Redmayne and Law continue to prove that they were born to play these iconic characters in this world, while also introducing new memorable characters such as Albus’ brother Aberforth (Richard Coyle), the expansion of Bunty’s (Victoria Yeates) role, and Hicks, even though she parodied 1930s accent became distracting at times.
Many of the others, though, felt squandered, with Yusuf, Credence, Queenie, and Theseus’ stories appearing like afterthoughts. Some of the character arcs make no sense at all.’
The Fantastic Beasts franchise was created to expose the world to magizoologist Newt Scamander and the people in his life, but the past few films have reduced him to a supporting role for the true present stars: Dumbledore and Grindelwald.
Although Mikkelsen tried his best in the part, which was originally performed by Johnny Depp, his interpretation of the character now feels out of place as well.
The last film focused on Grindelwald’s nefarious nature as a frightening, almost-Aryan dictatorial wizard and the lengths he’s ready to go for all-out war to wipe out all Muggle blood. The character went so far as to murder a muggle youngster.
However, this version of Grindelwald, whose identity change is never addressed, appears to be a touch suaver and softer when it comes to torture.
There’s nothing wrong with that since it’s wonderful not to see brutality onscreen, but it also felt out of character for Grindelwald, whom the producers previously intended the viewer to perceive as the ultimate evil.
However, unlike the scary Depp version, this new Grindelwald demonstrates the fascination the character would have for Dumbledore, who freely confesses his love for his erstwhile comrade.
In that regard, the film finally confronts Dumbledore’s sexuality by having him confess his love for another man. But, after all these years of waiting for the videos to corroborate what had been known for years, the presentation was uninspiring. Because of the continuing debate surrounding Rowling and the LGBTQ+ community, the big announcement feels more like damage management than anything genuine and beautiful.
With the inclusion of Hogwarts and kids from all houses interacting with the main characters, there is a lot of fan service like that throughout the film. It was nice to see Gryffindor and Slytherin students act out their regular, predictable behaviors around Jacob, including Slytherin students pranking the poor muggle with bug sweets.
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