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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is the perfect example of how a movie can hide a good part and another so-so. And it is hardly understandable that J.K. Rowling, so focused on her original books (I mean the Harry Potter saga), writes scripts as vague as the ones she is giving us in this new franchise. 

I liked it? Quite, everything must be said; but it has also disappointed me because I do not see the change that was predicted anywhere.

The Real Trouble in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

“Fantastic Beasts” and “The Secrets of Dumbledore” are really two completely different movies: the first is a compendium of hackneyed jokes already seen in previous installments about Newt Scamander and his fellow adventurers. The second is an intense drama about an impossible love that causes very dangerous tensions in the future.

Why does Warner Bros. insist on calling this franchise ‘Fantastic Beasts’ when it has become clear that it is a name that has no pull? What’s more, with The Secrets of Dumbledore, those magical beasts almost completely disappear, and only towards the end does a specific species take center stage that I won’t reveal for obvious reasons. 

It was the perfect opportunity to release independent movies without trying to sneak in Newt and his friends; because with this third installment it is clear that they are trying to be a common thread when we are all trying to see what happens next between Grindelwald and Dumbledore.

This mixture results in a movie ‘by pieces’: at times, we are super into what happens to Credence and Grindelwald, what his relationship with Dumbledore is like, or how the future headmaster of Hogwarts is desperately looking for a way to avoid direct conflict. On the other hand, we have a feature film closer to the second, in which the real protagonists (Newt and his brother, for example) bother more than help.

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Luckily, there are wonderful moments in Fantastic Beasts 3, which is why I ended up raising the grade several integers. In particular, the few magic scenes that appear (there are not as many as anticipated) are among the best in the entire franchise and show that David Yates has found again that spark that he lost for a time.

I also highlight in a very positive way the chemistry between Grindelwald and Dumbledore, and here I open a debate for which many will kill me. Would it have been possible for Johnny Depp to create this intimate relationship between his character and Jude Law? 

Because I think the villain has improved a lot thanks to Mads Mikkelsen by giving us a less egocentric and eccentric version than the one played by the actor from Pirates of the Caribbean. I know that many of you idolize him, but Grindelwald needed a very different touch from the one we saw in the second installment, and here it has finally been achieved.

Finally, magical beasts continue to play a role in the saga, but here they lose importance to the detriment of the story that interests us most (that of Grindelwald and Dumbledore). However, when they appear, they remain in the background (except towards the end) being mere tools to make the viewer smile. As if Warner Bros. Pictures wanted to sell us the merchandise by force.

It is not the film we wanted, but a kind of ‘transition 2.0’

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is a transitional movie towards a possible ending. And I say possible because The Crimes of Grindelwald was also transitional. Will there be a time when the saga leaves us in tension at all times? Or will subframes continue to be created one after another? Because when I left the cinema, I had the feeling that absolutely nothing has happened in the seven and a half hours of the franchise that we had.

Luckily, it’s still an entertaining movie, which I quite liked despite everything I’ve said, and which has given us two of J.K.’s best characters. Rowling: Grindelwald and Dumbledore.

The actor, recently interviewed, described a sequence of the film that seems really intended.

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is very close to arriving in theaters around the world and, after the disappointment that the second chapter of this magical franchise has reserved in part, it is normal that the fans of the saga are in turmoil. Judging from the promotional material released in recent months. 

It seems that we will really see some good ones in the making and even if we don’t actually know what will happen, we are ready for anything. In all of this, we can’t wait to find out what will happen between Grindelwald (who has the new face of Mads Mikkelsen after Johnny Depp’s firing) and Albus Dumbledore (incarnate Jude Law).

The latter character was recently named in an interview with Eddie Redmayne, who lends the face of the protagonist Newt Scamander. To the microphones of Digital Spy, the star paraphrased a sentence of the aforementioned character that is really intense and touching.

We all make mistakes in life, but you can try to make things better. It is the proof that counts. It is the aspiration to improve things that counts.

The words spoken by Dumbledore within Fantastic Beasts 3 are truly suggestive, but we do not yet know which scene they belong to as they are completely decontextualized. But trying to imagine what possible sequence they could refer to, perhaps they will be associated with a moment that precedes the great battle that we will observe in the realization or even towards the end when the wise magician could leave an important message to the protagonist.

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, Heyday Films with distribution by Warner Bros. and directed by David Yates. The film, written by J.K. Rowling with Steve Kloves, also sees a cast of Ezra Miller as Credence Barebone, Dan Fogler as Jacob Kowalski, Callum Turner as Theseus Scamander, and many more. We remind you that the film arrives in Italian cinemas on April 13, 2022.

We return to the Wizarding World with ‘Fantastic Beasts 3‘, in which we will meet old acquaintances, such as Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law), and Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler), but we will also meet new characters, and of others, we will discover a totally new face.

The third, to be exact, that we see in the ‘Harry Potter’ prequels. We are referring, of course, to Gellert Grindelwald, the main antagonist of this saga, who was already camouflaged under the guise of Colin Farrell in the first one and revealed his true identity with Johnny Depp. 

The actor left the franchise at the request of Warner when the filming of this third installment had only just begun. He is replaced by Mads Mikkelsen, with whom we have had the great opportunity to chat, and no less than in the very Great Hall of Hogwarts (which can be visited on the ‘Warner Bros. Studio Tour London? The Making of Harry Potter in Leavesden, England).

Mikkelsen tells us that he has lived through the Wizarding World of J.K. Rowling through her children. “I learn something new every day as if I were reading a new page,” he admits. The actor is not new to turning to the dark side, but he does so with one of the most powerful antagonists in a franchise that has already given us such a legendary villain as Voldemort. 

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore Movie

“As with all good villains, we needed him to have a purpose, a goal that wasn’t too crazy, and in this case, Grindelwald wants to make the world a better place. How he wants to achieve that… that’s another thing.”.

‘The Secrets of Dumbledore’ will finally give Dumbledore and Grindelwald’s feelings for each other the importance they deserve. In fact, Mads Mikkelsen assures that this relationship is the center of his character: 

“We try to find out where they are in the relationship now. If there is anything left… beyond disappointment, of course. (…) There is no doubt that they have a very strong past. They talk to each other as if they had not seen each other in a long time but, at the same time, as if they had seen each other the day before.”

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore Movie

Next to Mads Mikkelsen sits Jessica Williams, the great surprise of the film, who comes with the desire to become a character much loved by Potterheads. She plays Lally Hicks, a professor at the Ilvermorny School of American Magic, whom we saw mentioned in passing in ‘The Crimes of Grindelwald’. 

This time she arrives as a full-fledged member of the group. “She is always willing to work for a greater good,” explains the actress, who is a poster fan of this franchise. She doesn’t hesitate for a second to beg her, and Lally, to visit other magic schools as they go through the series: 

“I can’t wait to go to Ilvermorny, it’s literally my dream. I’d love to see all the schools around the world. Japan! Paris! Brazil! I want to see them all!” This international component is one of the things that most attracted her to ‘Fantastic Beasts,’ she tells us.

And speaking of international, this film has as its plot the elections for president of the International Confederation of Wizards. J.K. Rowling flirts with politics again, and Mads Mikkelsen highly appreciates her parallels with the real world: “It’s all in the magic of JK Rowling’s writing and how it doesn’t detach itself from the human but just happens in our world. Politics is A dirty business, even for wizards.”

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore Movie

‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore‘ opens in theaters on April 8.