‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore’ Review
) is out. One of fans’ many complaints about the last installment — which, let’s be clear about this, still made good money at the box office — was that having revealed elsewhere that Dumbledore was gay, Rowling had him merely say that he and the Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald were once “closer than brothers.” This time around, he lays it on the line.
In the last film, Grindelwald was imprisoned for mass murder. Now he’s out, cleared of all charges and campaigning to become leader of the wizarding world. Grindelwald is now played by, replacing Johnny Depp from the previous films. Now, if you’re looking for a malevolent but charismatic villain with world-conquering aspirations, Mikkelsen looks like your man.
And the eponymous creatures themselves are more glorious than ever; hooray for the bird that inflates to become a hot-air balloon and the dancing scorpions, central to the film’s funniest scene . One of the beasts does, in fact, play a role in the central story: the qilan, which has illuminated scales but most closely resembles a faun and has a unique ability to see into the human soul.
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