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FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD
Dir: David Yates (12A, 135 mins)
The Potterverse keeps on expanding as Eddie Redmayne and his lips return as Newt Scamander, collector of beasts, in another wizarding adventure from the mind of JK Rowling. After the fairly underwhelming but distracting events of the first film, this second instalment (of a proposed five) takes in some firm Potter favourites. Johnny Depp was revealed as the big baddy Grindelwald at the end of the last film, out to provoke war between muggles and wizards. Meanwhile, Redmayne’s Scamander is twiddling his thumbs in London looking to be reunited with Katherine Waterston’s Tina as she undertakes wizardry investigations in Paris trying to find Ezra Miller’s Credence Barebone. Credence, for his part, has mysteriously regenerated and joined a circus. All this plot pitches Scamander towards a young Dumbledore, played by Jude Law and an excursion to Hogwarts. In order to defeat the escaped Grindelwald, he’s going to need all the help he can get. It has been alluded to that Dumbledore shares romantic history with the villain. A wizarding war approaches in the heyday of Paris society but where will it lead? More CGI creatures, more retrofitted backstories, more spectacle and more ham from Depp and Law, which will please Potter lovers, but leave a lot of muggles befuddled.
words Keiron Self
Opens Nov 16