Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - Trailer

YOOOOOO

IT'S HERE MY DUDES

IT. IS. HERE!!!!!

Ya girl is so excited, I've waited forever for this to happen, well more like 2 years but it's been a stupid long couple of years. But it's here, the first official trailer for the second installment of the Fantastic Beasts series and I am so here for it I could explode. This has completed my damn life for a little bit. This has given me some joy in the midst of having a few pretty shit days and even though I've had the recent Christopher Robin trailer to keep me happy, it's not long enough to soothe me for as long as I needed.

However, the people over at Warner Brothers got my back and dropped a trailer for the trailer the other day which got me excited, then on Tuesday night when I got home I saw the whole trailer and I just about melted.

I'm not gonna talk about the whole thing like I did with the Christopher Robin trailer, I'm just going to talk about the best and worst bits. Y'all ready to go in on this? You should be 'cause you clicked on the post...

Highlights include:

Hogwarts in it's prime. Dumbldore isn't in charge of the school, children can get along with their lives like normal wizard children, Harry Potter isn't the centre of the universe. All is well. Although we do get to see the back of Dumbledore's head, similar to the introduction of Grindelwald in the first film, I'm pretty sure that this guy isn't the child sacrificing maniac he will soon become. We're all blessed to see this version of Dumbledore played by Jude Law.

My baby Eddie Redmayne shows up too...I mean obviously, he is the lead character. Turns out he's in Paris now (Paris looks gorgeous by the way in this film), allegedly following orders from Dumbledore, to which Dumbledore says "If you ever had the pleasure to teach him, you'd know Newt is not a great follower of Orders". Which fair enough, but you're not great at that shit either boo.

There's a moment, literally just about 2 seconds long where you see a whole room, which I'm assuming is either the Ministry or another Magical council just sat, and in the middle stands our blonde, terrible actor, Johnny Depp as Grindelwald. This is easily one of the more powerful images from the trailer and you know in the film it's either already ruined by Depp talking or they might let that image sit for a second to let you feel the full impact of that image. It'd be nice but we know what will most likely happen.

Then we see little Newt's girlfriend, Tina looking a little shifty, she's only there for a second but it's nice to see her brought back. And before anybody says anything about spoilers because Newt and Tina weren't together in the last film, let's be real, even if you don't know your wizarding world family tree's, you can tell from the writing and chemistry that these two characters are going to end up together. You just don't root for them as hard as Jacob and Queenie.

Finally, the absolute best part of the trailer, you see Dumbldore and Scamander casting a spell toward the end and holy hell, if my life wasn't complete just from the rest of the trailer, that bit defintely just finished it off. It looks so cool and I swear if anybody wants to tell me otherwise I will fight you on it. I promise that.

Onto the Negatives which are...few.

Grindelwald looks a lot more like one of the Chuckle Brothers, the one that didn't age all that well, not a great look for the OG dark wizard is it? Of course not, but then again having Johnny Depp be a part of this franchise was already a bit of a risk and boy did it not pay off.

Jacob is back also, which isn't really a negative but I would have liked to have not seen him in the trailer. The last film left us wondering how much he really remembered when Queenie walked into his shop, a nice ambiguous ending. So to see him already in his next adventure is a bit too revealing. Like yeah he did remember everything and here's the proof before you see the film. I just wish we could have gotten a moment from the begining of the film, showing just him and Queenie together in the shop, reconnecting. I get that it had to be an action packed trailer but having something soft would have been nice.

The title of the film is a bother too. Like really think about it. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Where is the connecting point for those two things? Is the film about the OG dark wizard? The murder and torture and the power and everything people had to do to stop this evil force from taking over? Or is it about a lovely Hufflepuff boy travelling the world and writing about the magical animals he comes across? I'd like to say that making this series the way it has been made was a mistake, I mean, when the first Fantastic Beasts film came out I was so excited to see all these magical creatures I'd read about come to life and what did I get? Some of the animal but a lot of talk of Grindelwald being back. That's not what we wanted from this series and now it's basically just using the animals as tools to fight a great evil, that's not what this should be.

Honestly, pick a lane writers, and that includes you Joanne. I love that you created this world for me to grow up with, and I admire the hell out of your strength for going through everything, however, your creative vision seems a little confused. If you wanted to make Hogwarts: A History and focus on the history of the first dark wizard then go for it. If you wanted to make Fantastic Beasts & Where to find them then do it! Don't splice the two and make nobody happy with the result. Well I'm sure it's not nobody that's happy, in fact I genuinely loved the first film, but it seems like you've taken it in a direction that isn't Fantasic Beasts and that's sad. Maybe someone else could give us the stories behind these animals while you continue to get ahead of yourself.

I really do love your work Joanne, but please, in the words of my tutor after handing in a terrible essay "Pick something to focus on and write about that."

That's all I've got to say about the trailer to the upcoming Fantasic Beasts film. The film is out November 16th this year and regardless of what I said before, I'm genuinely bursting with excitement to see what this film brings up. Hell, maybe there will be more animals and less Johnny Depp, but a girl can only dream.

Here's the trailer so you can have a look for yourself and make a decision on whether it's as good as it looks or not. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - Trailer

Have a good day and remember, you can't apparate inside Hogwarts grounds.

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