Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

2018 134 min ★ 6.8 Fantasy, Adventure

Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.

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Cast

Eddie Redmayne

Newt Scamander

Katherine Waterston

Tina Goldstein

Dan Fogler

Jacob Kowalski

Alison Sudol

Queenie Goldstein

Johnny Depp

Grindelwald

Jude Law

Albus Dumbledore

Ezra Miller

Credence Barebone

Zoë Kravitz

Leta Lestrange

Callum Turner

Theseus Scamander

Claudia Kim

Nagini

Details

Director

David Yates

Screenplay

J.K. Rowling

Tagline

"Fate of one. Future of all."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$200,000,000

Revenue

$654,900,000

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures, Heyday Films

Reviews

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geekr

November 20, 2018

_By JD Phillips, geekr.org_ The Harry Potter movies are great but one of the main flaws of the original franchise was the struggle the films had condensing the lengthy novels into movies under three hours. Despite the Fantastic Beasts sequel not being based on a book, it still somehow feels like its stressing to condense a five hundred page book into a smaller narrative. The movie runs fro...

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Dark Jedi

November 30, 2018

★ 6/10

The first Fantastic Beasts movie was excellent. It was a bright and magical adventure. This one is going down another path and I cannot say that I was overly thrilled by that. This movie is putting emphasis on political machinations, division between the wizards and the non-wizards, betrayals etc. etc. Take away the magic component and you really have a fairly regular racial-differences, humans...

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trineo03

December 17, 2018

First of all, just like in the last movie the acting in this film is excellent but with a few exceptions. Eddie Redmayne was still excellent as Newt but I think he did a better job in the first film. Same thing with Dan Fogler who didn’t seem as funny but useless and could have just been written out of this film. But I did really like Jude Law as a young Dumbledore and Joshua Shea who plays young ...

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Gimly

August 10, 2020

★ 3/10

I re-watched the original _Fantastic Beasts_ today to prep for _Crimes of Grindelwald_ and it made me realise that the only reason I gave that first film a positive review was because of Queenie Goldstein. She's just **such** a sweetheart. Her character wasn't the **only** thing I liked about that movie, but without her, it still gets pushed down into Rotten. So when they took her in this one and ...

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r96sk

May 12, 2022

★ 6/10

Better than its predecessor, even if I still didn't really dig it. <em>'Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald'</em> has more of a vibe about it, especially early on, and is marginally better paced. Overall, though, I'm kinda split on how I feel about this second instalment. It is a definite improvement, and yet I don't have any noteworthy positives to share about it. The cast, despite nam...