Other mistake: McGonagall appears as a young professor at Hogwarts, even though the movie is set in 1927 and she wasn't born, according to the official Harry Potter canon, until 1935.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
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Directed by: David Yates
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Dan Fogler, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol
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I was not a huge fan of the first Fantastic Beasts, but after seeing the trailer for this one, I was excited but I left pretty disappointed with this, even more than the first. The big issue is that JK Rowling's screenwriting is nowhere near the level of her book writing; she clearly can't balance the amount of story lines and the narrative lacks any sense of build up, so it just feels like we're watching a series of scenes playing out rather than a story that is being told. In addition, the story simply lacks the magic of the Harry Potter movies.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is the second prequel to the popular Harry Potter series of films and finds the Magizoologist Newt Scamander who, along with some friends and allies, tries to thwart the evil plot for world domination in progress by the charismatic dark mage, Gellert Grindelwald. Many tie-ins to what happens with Hogwarts and its young students abound, along with various strange creatures, chases, and menaces! At times confusing and a bit underwhelming after so many prior films, it nevertheless dutifully fills in some blanks for those fans who want every plot-hole addressed and can't get enough of the magical world J. K. Rowling created.
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Suggested correction: JK Rowling, who had admitted she's terrible at math, has changed her mind about McGonagall's age multiple times. First she said she was 70 in 1995 (putting her birth year as 1925), then on Pottermore she said she was born in 1935, then after this movie came out she nixed that section of Pottermore and left her birth year unconfirmed from then on. If the author who created this world can't make up her mind on how old she is, we can't definitively give her a year of birth either.
Leta Lestrange: You're too good, Newt. You never met a monster you couldn't love.
Trivia: Johnny Depp accepted the role of Grindelwald without reading the script, because he is a big fan of the franchise.
Question: Why did Grindelwald let his acolytes steal the family tree of Leta Lestrange and place it at Pere Lachaise? What's the point? If he wanted Credence or Leta to read it, he could have simply given it to them, right?
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