DVD Review - The Crimes Of Grindelwald

The Magical Universe of Harry Potter, turned 2nd World War political overtake! Unlike.

Let me just clear that right out of the gate,  I'm not a Harry Potter fan!

I think all the Harry Potter franchise was just one big marketing campaign to ride the wave of fantasy novels that The Lord of the Rings (2001) started. Harry Potter started off as nice kids books that appeal to most young audiences, but after that, it just got mega hyped by Hollywood studios, and the author herself. They just milked the hell out of that cash cow with series of movies that ended up with a terrible disappointing ending, to both movie goers and fans.

But still, studios were not happy. They decided that J.K. Rowling (the original author) could continue to make them money with that universe, so... they decided to just keep going!

Their first attempt at keeping the Potter universe alive didn't went too well but it wasn't bad either. Fantastic Creatures and Were To Find Them (2016) was a nice fantasy spin off that most people thought harmless but none the less pleased most fans. I thought it was ok and kinda introduced a new view at an already existing universe outside Hogwarts so yeah, it worked (I guess...).

And then they made this... And OMG! What the hell where they thinking!?

Ok so, for the first part, the movie follows much in line with was already established in the first one. Magic, London, a villain rises, fine, we're used to this. But then... The movies just takes the most obnoxious, incoherent, inconsistent turn. It becomes a sort of political, nazi-evil scheme, destroying old characters (from the previous films and the Potter universe) and just delivers a mind boggling stupid jigsaw that no one asked for or wanted in the first place.

It was like turning a kids magical universe into Mein Kampf (Google it, cause it's just terrible).

After that you try and maintain some sort of link to the existing Harry Potter books and feel but it's all just too late. You stop caring for the characters, the universe, the plot and you just wanna leave the theater (or pause the video) and regret you ever saw it.

But, since this is the second in a trilogy, I guess we'll all now have to see the third to know how this falling of a cliff vehicle of a movie is gonna end.

A one out of three.