Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
U/A: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Director: David Yates
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Johnny Depp, Jude Law
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Warner Bros and JK Rowling's attempts to capture the Young Adult Market with the Fantastic Beasts adaptation are proving to be nearly as productive a goldmine as their previous collaboration – the Harry Potter series. In this second in the purportedly 5 movie outing for the Fantastic Beasts, magical creature franchise J.K. Rowling gets Magizoologist Newt Scamander(Eddie Redmayne) to join forces with young Albus Dumbledore( Jude Law) to prevent the devious Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) from raising pure-blood wizards to rule over all non-magical beings. The Potter maniacs will obviously be thrilled with the fairly frequent parleys into Hogwarts with Dumbledore. The first, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' was a little ponderous with its attempts to fashion a sort of origin story for the series and therefore took a little time getting into stride but this one doesn't suffer from that malady.