Fantastic Beasts 3 was not nearly as bad as I was expecting. Ezra Miller going bonkers, Johnny Depp's drama and Rowling's inability to shut the #### up certainly overshadowed the movie.
I certainly liked it better than the first. I can barely remember the second, so let's just say I haven't seen it.
Jude Law's Dumbledore is great, and it felt like that's where they're going with the series. I like that this Dumbledore is the pinnacle of sartorial elegance (and why does old Dumbledore wear a muumuu?) Mads Mikkelsen had this chemistry with all costars and should have been Grindelwald all along. I'd watch him paint a room.
Its biggest flaws were the action actions sequences which were both few and really weak, pacing in the second act was dreadful, and the stakes just didn't feel that high. And what happened to the American detective woman? They just sort of wrote her out save for a cameo.
Perhaps it's because I'm not really a big Harry Potter fan (my mom is and that's why we saw this yesterday - and she was disappointed in the movie), or maybe I just wasn't expecting much so it exceeded my expectations. But solid 3.5 stars.
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