Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Yeah, I think they already made the worst Harry Potter movie in the world. Personally, I'm not a devoted fan of this world, if I like some movies, and books, but not much beyond. Maybe that's why the movie didn't get my attention so much, but, of course, the movie has good things, it's completely understandable that someone even comes to love it, after all it has everything a Harry Potter fan can ask for. Let's start with what, I think, is the best thing about the film, its production. If there's one thing that catches the eye of this saga it's the construction and development of the magical world. And in that sense, Fantastic Animals 2, does quite a beautiful job. Personally, the costumes, the stages, the creatures, all of that is what is best done in the sequel. The construction of the magical world is precious, and is appreciated more because in this film they decided to take the characters to many more places. In the Harry Potter saga, something I didn't like was that it only showed the protagonist's path, which always went to the same places, with one or two new ones in each film. In Fantastic Animals and its prequel, this doesn't happen, especially in this movie. They take the time to send the characters to more places, to build many more new stages which, as I said, are beautifully constructed.
Besides, Newt Scamander's creatures, I liked them a lot better than the last movie. In that one, they dedicate to the creatures a movie room (Puro relleno) I never got to appreciate them enough because they only showed the creatures as Newt's pets, they didn't contribute much. Now, apart from showing them useful, they create new creatures, with much more interesting designs, and now I could even get to love them. The same thing happens with Newt Scamander himself, last time, despite being the main character, I never appreciated him very much as a character, that is, I couldn't empathize, for me I was just there to be. Now, if I manage to take care of him, and that I care more about his situation. One of the reasons was the development they gave him in his relationships with other characters. For example, you notice the trust, and as he cares about characters like Kowalski, Tina or even Queenie, now he stops doing everything for his creatures (which are still his priority) to also do things for them. And they do a great job of establishing the differences of how their social discomfort shows with characters like their brother, or Lita Lestrange, even somehow with Dumbledore. That is to say, they now show a lot more of the things he can do as a magician, leaving aside a bit the creature-breeder part (which, as I said, are still his priority).
Now, Johnny Deep as Grindelwald, not bad either, made me hope for the actor again. He plays the character in a great way, but, his problem comes to be the development they gave him, the character doesn't put him to do something, they always come saying how powerful he is, how persuasive he is, but he never shows the threat he can become, why is everyone afraid of him? It's as if they were describing the character but without showing anything. That, in fact, is not a mistake at all, I mean, Voldemort didn't appear until the fourth film, but they came describing and showing acts that he could do in a subtle way, while Harry's main adventures were good enough to entertain while Voldemort's story unfolded in the background. But, in Grindelwald's Crimes, the "main" story is pure stuffing, they put plot after sub-plot without any important, and the only thing that makes it interesting is only in the background, that is, the Grindelwald story.
With that I want to get to the point that leaves bad the good I said before, and is the script. With this and the film passes, J.K. Rowling shows how little experience she has of being a film scriptwriter. Don't get me wrong, J.K. Rowling seems to me to be too good a writer, but she still doesn't manage to tell the difference between a script and a book. To explain myself better, all the scenes in the film look like a chapter in a book, but as it is now a scene, they summarize everything to the extreme that tend to make it very confusing. And now he doesn't know how to explain something with takes or a few words, he uses the technique of books to put a long text that explains everything, but he tells it to a character, who explains the whole half of the film we were watching. The film only works as a visual delight, because everything you see here is precious, it establishes a basis for future films, but nothing else. It lacks a solid script and a fixed plot line, they only put the characters to interact without reaching something, and without creating an interesting story, when they try it, it's already too late. What best describes the film is stuffing. It only nods to a future film, with a visual beauty but without an interesting story.
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