Dumbledore conscripts Newt to help him assemble a team that will defeat Grindelwald. That’s where Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), the series’ diffident magizoologist, comes in. The future Hogwarts headmaster must stop his nemesis and former lover, but a pact made decades ago prevents the two from directly fighting each other. Grindelwald’s commitment to dominating the world of wizarding and starting a war with non-magic people leaves Dumbledore in a tricky position. Over tea, the two warring and heartbroken wizards review their past and relitigate betrayals. They meet in a frosty, almost palatial café, where seemingly unaware non-magic people buzz around them. The Secrets of Dumbledore opens with a chilly encounter between Dumbledore and Grindelwald (now played by Mads Mikkelsen), the avatars of this moral conflict. To be good is to fight for the preservation of democracy, to “do what is right, not what is easy,” as Albus Dumbledore (played by Jude Law) intimates at one point in the film. While the film’s moral concerns still boil down to the battle between good and evil, Rowling, who penned the screenplay with Steve Kloves, uses an upcoming Wizarding World election to up the stakes of this conflict. It’s hard not to think of these real-world issues when watching The Secrets of Dumbledore, which pulls its major plot points from present-day political struggles. Then there is the series progenitor, Rowling, who has spent the past two years aggressively reaffirming her anti-trans views.Ĭast: Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Mads Mikkelsen, Ezra Miller, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, William Nadylam, Callum Turner, Jessica Williams, Victoria Yeates Ezra Miller, who plays Credence Barebone, has been facing their own issues after appearing to choke a fan outside a club and, most recently, attacking people at a bar in Hawaii and allegedly breaking into a random couple’s hotel room. Johnny Depp, who played the franchise’s villain Gellert Grindelwald in the second installment, was embroiled in domestic abuse allegations made by his ex-wife, Amber Heard. Some of the stress comes from the behind-the-scenes drama leading up to the film’s April 15 theatrical release. Rowling’s Wizarding World sub-franchise is less clogged with distracting detail than its immediate predecessor, but even a more refined plot can’t save the two-hour-plus film from feeling like an endurance test. The long-awaited third installment of J.K. After four years, “ Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” has arrived, and it is a slog more than an event.
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