Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

 The latest instalment in the Wizarding World franchise, and also the third Fantastic Beasts movie.

And as such, after Colin Farrell and Johnny Depp, also the third actor to play Grindlewald in the person of the always magnificent Mads Mikkelsen.

 

Taling place a few years after the events of the second film, in 1932, Newt is helping a Qilin give birth.  A magical creature with the power to see the pureness of one's soul, but he is attacked and the mother killed by Grindlewald's followers.  They kidnap the newborn, but unknown to them there where two calves born.

 

 

Grindlewald kills the first beast though, intending to use it's power of precognition.  Dumbledore recruits a group of wizards to tackle Grindlewald's plan, as they travel to Berlin and the ministry of Magic there.  Here they witness how Grindlewald is absolved of his crimes, allowing him to run in the elections of becoming the next leader of the Wizarding World, and enable him to declare war on the muggle world.  

 

While the group splits up to work from different angles, the power of Grindlewald keeps ascending as he prepares for the elections in Bhutan, resurrecting the Qilin calf as a pawn to influence the chosing.  They are faced with the acolytes, but manage to get to the election stage, and with the help of the calf that is still alive prevent Grindlewald of becoming the one ruler.  

 

 

So this was an enjoyable movie, but really not the greatest of all.  Fantastic Beasts, which should be what this trilogy is all about, is even more then in the previous instalment just an afterthought, and I wonder if it either will continue, or if we will get a new series about Grindlewald's war on the regular world instead.

 

Well, I don`t have a precognition spell, so I guess we will have to wait and see...