I love the
Harry Potter films and I was pleasantly surprised by the first Fantastic Beasts
film. The same cannot be said for its sequel
It was
difficult to remain excited with as the build-up came around. The accusations
around Johnny Depp and their defence of him, even giving him a much larger role
this time around, the uncomfortableness around their decisions with Nagini
(more on that later). With the inclusion of Dumbledore this time around,
hearing that his sexuality wouldn’t be addressed was kinda disappointing too.
(We will get to specifics in the review portion)
JK Rowling
is writing the script, like she did with the first one, JK is a talented
writer, the 7 Harry Potter Books are some of the best stories I've ever read, but
there are differences between writing a book and a film, and I suspect JK
Rowling’s talents are more in the book department. After the success of the
first Fantastic Beasts, it was announced this would be a 5-movie series, this
is important for a lot of reasons we’ll get into.
The end
result is the worst ranked Harry Potter movie to date with a 37% Rotten
Tomatoes Rating (avg 5.8/10) and a 55% audience score (3.32/5) and that shows
with their box office, whilst it didn’t flop, making $653m on its $200m budget,
that pales in comparison to the $814m its predecessor made and led to the
studio upping the turnaround times from 2 to 3 years. So, what happened? Let’s
take a look.
