Fantastic beasts the crimes of grindelwald11/14/2023 Grindelwald begins in custody, the way we left him at the end of the last film, a brooding Lecterian figure who is far from resigned to incarceration. Having said which: the architectural detail of JK Rowling’s creativity is as awe-inspiring as ever. But I couldn’t help feeling that the narrative pace was a little hampered, and that we are getting bogged down, just a bit, in a lot of new detail. It is just as spectacular as the wonderful opening film, with lovingly realised creatures, witty inventions and sprightly vignettes. But as so often with fantasy adventure, the stormclouds are rolling in and the story is inexorably weighted towards a titanic battle of good and evil. Rowling’s Wizarding World epic includes specific references to the Hogwarts universe that we already know and love, younger versions of the old characters, and so in some ways has a more prequelised look, with hints of an origin myth. The storyline is initially clotted with sneaky narrative about-turns, reactivating characters from the last film, rescuing them from apparent destruction or memory loss there are unresolved mysteries and a general sense of disquieting forces and intricate implications that may take many films to sort out. This second adventure in JK Rowling’s movie series about unworldly young magizoologist Newt Scamander, engagingly played by Eddie Redmayne, takes the inevitable darker and more sombre turn.
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