{"id":38502,"date":"2023-03-19T15:27:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T20:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38502"},"modified":"2023-03-19T15:27:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T20:27:27","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-814","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/03\/19\/belated-movie-reviews-814\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (2022) is the third part of a prequel sequence to the popular Harry Potter series and its universe of a hidden world of wizards and magical creatures, and the inherent tensions between wizards and Muggles<\/em>, the non-magical humans of our world. This movie is the climax of a conflict between Albus Dumbledore, later a dominant character and wizard in the main series, and his former gay lover Grindewald.<\/p>\n

Sounds like fun.<\/p>\n

But it’s not. I think it suffers from a malady endemic to fantasy: Got a problem? Slap some magic over it, and if there’s a cost, minimize it. Makes for a flashy movie, but it’s hard to see the consequences and side effects of decisions made – and that is often the real heart of a story, regardless of genre.<\/p>\n

Add characters appearing and disappearing with little clue as to their significance, a lack of chemistry between the Muggle Jacob and his wizard love, Queenie, the repetitiveness of the lead character, Newt Scamander, a real difficulty in detecting an organic theme or two to stir debate and discussion, and this story devolves into just another money-maker by-blow. And that’s too bad, as there’s a lot of good performers present.<\/p>\n

I fear the storytellers just don’t pull it off this time. Unless you’re a completist for Potter, or for any of the actors in this movie, don’t bother with this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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