"Fantastic animals: the crimes of Grindelwald": a monumental epic

A fatal fog envelops the dark city of in New York where a convoy of prisoners sets in motion. The sorcerer Gellert Grindelwald who, a year ago, reduced part of the city to ashes, must answer for the crimes committed there and in Europe. But at the end of "Fantastic Animals and Where to Find Them" it was already intuitive that Grindelwald would not spend much time behind bars. Of course, the powerful magician escapes in the sequel this week at the cinema: "Fantastic animals: the crimes of Grindelwald" .

The spectacular flight, with in the background the imposing buildings of New York from 1927 marks the successful beginning of the new cinematic adventure part of the universe of Harry Potter . The film joins JK Rowling with director of David Yates four-time director of Potter's film adventures.

This British duo, who already signed the first delivery of 2016, was immediately clear that it was necessary to make a sequel, which will eventually be a saga in five installments.

AND Eddie Redmayne, winner of an Oscar, returns as Newt Scamander on the big screen. This shy zoologist magician, who discovered Grindelwald and helped capture her, returns to United Kingdom . In the magical basement of his home, he continues to take care of many animal creatures while missing witch Tina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston) .

But soon will have to lament for lost love, as the Professor Dumbledore (Jude Law) appears in London. He who will later become the mentor of Harry Potter informs him of Grindelwald's escape and offers him to help him.

The magician zoologist, who is forbidden to travel, hesitates, but it only takes a little help from Queennie, sister of Tina (a delightful Alison Sudol) and her companion ] Jacob (Dan Fogler) to go to Paris, where he hopes to find Tina, but with whom he will meet is Grindelwald and his supporters, who want to start a revolution. His goal is that the magicians dominate the "muggel" the people who do not have magical powers. And to achieve this, Grindelwald is willing to eliminate even his friend Dumbledore.

Rowling and Yates have created an incredibly complex story. For those who do not know the universe of Potter, it will be a difficult film because to have an overview of the many characters and their actions, you must know the world of the young magician.

With this prior knowledge and a certain affinity with the world of magic, Rowling continues to expand his magical world and mixes elements with fiction.

The fans will be happy to participate in a field trip. Hogwarts The school of magic in the Harry Potter books. As in the films of the young magician, everything is planned and planned. Thus, in the first part, it was possible to see the witch Leta Lestrange (Zoë Kravitz) in a single image, but that Scamander had brought it.

After a rich start to action, the film lets pbad the time, perhaps too much, until well into the story. But the wait will be rewarded: the scenes with fantastic creatures or when the magic is accomplished make the film spectacular, which also contributes to the extraordinary soundtrack of James Newton Howard.

About the protagonist Redmayne, there is little to add, but the big surprise is Alison Sudol, who deploys her talent for comedy and thus provides more than a smile. In addition to Jude Law, still with that casual touch shines particularly in this sequel Johnny Depp, which gives flare to his sinister character. Depp was present in the first part, but he often looked like Colin Farrell. Only at the end of the film was revealed that Percival Graves (Farrell), of the Department of Magic of the United States, was actually Grindelwald (Depp).

And this remains almost in a brief appearance because Amber Heard, Depp's ex-wife, has denounced her for domestic violence and fans have asked social networks that a another actor badumes his role.

However, Rowling and company stood firm with their choice of Depp. The author defended his decision on his website. From the purely artistic point of view, the decision is correct, because Depp, who may not be part of the next installment of "Pirates of the Caribbean", is ideal for playing the evil wizard.

Grindelwald's ambitions also have a critical reading with today's society. This encourages the magicians to fear those who do not have magical powers. He argues that he does not want anything bad for them, but that for him the interests of the wizards have priority and that anyone who is not at his side is against him, a maxim that more than anything else. a spectator will know.

The second of five planned episodes of this saga, director Yates and writer Rowling have surpbaded the first. "Fantastic Animals …" is a monumental and wonderful epic, full of fantasy, that manages to present a story as interesting as it is sophisticated. For the youngest viewers (the movie is allowed for children from 12 years old), it can be dark and dark, but other Potter fans will see it as a fantasy show.

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"Fantastic Animals: The Crimes of Grindelwald", second part of the film pentalogy taking place in the lucrative narrative universe of Harry Potter, takes place in the Paris from the late 20s. Born as simple anecdotes, both in the books and in the original films, this second cinematic piece begins to expand and connect the new saga to the first. The parallelism between Grindelwald and Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes in the movies) that sowed terror in "Harry Potter" is not accidental. The connection of the two sagas appears as a necessity to summon and then maintain legions of fanatics who, contrary to what happened with Harry's films, can not find these adventures in previously published books.

The fidelity of "manic potters" was maintained and sustained years after the end of history with little books, a play, video games, amusement parks or Internet communities, such as the official website pottermore.com, in which Rowling herself occasionally presents data, curiosities and news that expand the world of books.

With all these elements, the tenth film of Rowling's "Magic World" is a safe bet to add a good amount of dollars to the 8.500 million euros that the franchise has raised so far, still far but firm in third place behind blockbuster movies by Marvel and Star Wars.

The protagonists, attached to the environment

If the British actors Eddie Redmayne and Jude Law had magical powers similar to those of the characters that they play in this new film , the first thing they would do would be to take care of the environment. " I think that's exactly the area that needs to be addressed first," Law said. "I think that the world of magic should unite all its forces to redress the situation."

The first thing his teammate Redmayne would do was to remove the plastics that pollute the oceans. "It would be a good start," he said. However, the winner of an Oscar for "The Theory of Everything" (2014) does not believe that magic can solve social and political problems. "There is so much division in the world, and also in our film, that I fear that even the wizards do not have a spell to heal that.That's why we have to start with the essentials, our planet and our environment, "added Redmayne.

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