Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore Review - Improved Sequel Still Flawed
After the Harry Potter-related excitement of HBO Max's Return to Hogwarts special earlier this year, the Wizarding World now gets special focus again with Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, the third installment in Warner Bros.' polarizing prequel series. There has been much debate over whether this movie can repair what was broken by 2018's The Crimes of Grindelwald, the worst-received Wizarding World movie yet. While fan consensus is ultimately what matters for a movie like this, it is safe to say that The Secrets of Dumbledore is a step up from the previous film. It is aided by a more exhilarating plot and wondrous magic, yet it doesn't entirely fix all the issues from its predecessor. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is a step in the right direction for this meandering franchise, though it still has a lot of work ahead.
Set some time after the previous movie, dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen) has scored a major advantage in his crusade to take over the Wizarding World. Thanks to an extremely rare and valuable creature known as a qilin, Grindelwald has received the ability to see the future. Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law), still pondering how to solve his blood pact problem, assembles a motley team led by magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) to carry out a necessary blow against Grindelwald's steadily building power. This means being as unpredictable as possible, even as Grindelwald always appears to be one step ahead.
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In keeping with the most recent Wizarding World movies, David Yates directs. Whereas The Crimes of Grindelwald was solely written by author J.K. Rowling, The Secrets of Dumbledore turns to Steve Kloves, the
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