Some fans may shiver with glee when they hear Dumbledore refer to a young Scottish woman as “Minerva” (as in McGonagall), but this moment feels engineered to create that response. Its fan-servicing scenes in Hogwarts accomplish little. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is no different. The film doesn’t stray too far from the familiar grounds.Īs The Hobbit trilogy proved, spin-offs and prequels rarely capture the excitement of a new world being built before your eyes. Sweeping green screen shots reveal Weimar Germany and Bhutan, but each visit feels more like a brief pit-stop than a serious attempt to explore those countries’ customs. The film expands the wizarding world beyond the U.K. Set in the 1930s, David Yates’ third installment in the Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts is predictably entertaining, but soulless. He enlists Magizoologist Newt Scamander (an annoyingly awkward Eddie Redmayne) to lead a team of brave, if not foolhardy wizards and witches.
Dumbledore cannot move against Grindelwald. Coiled around Dumbledore’s right hand is a blood trot: a physical manifestation of the blood pact he and Grindelwald made that protects them from each other. In the first scene, Professor Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) meets his ex-lover and now nemesis Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen) to try to dissuade him from seizing control of the wizarding world and starting a war with the muggles. So, what makes a group of wizards, witches (and one muggle) decide to save the world by defeating Grindelwald? The second instalment in the Fantastic Beasts series has a surprisingly compelling answer: because Dumbledore can’t. Superheroes have to save the world, but wizards are under no obligation to do so. To my mind, the key distinction between wizards and superheroes is duty. You may be born a wizard, but you must still develop your wizarding skills just as any muggle learning a new skill would. Wizards are slightly more egalitarian than superheroes. They possess gifts that set them apart from everyone else.
What’s the difference between a superhero and a wizard? Both are born with difference.
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