The whole Fantastic Beasts concept always did seem
like a flimsy foundation for a film franchise and after the charm of the first
one seems to be turning into just a Harry Potter prequel. The problem with that
is we know that whatever Grindelwald is planning doesn’t actually succeed while
the more his ambitions are foregrounded, the less the supposed main character
Newt Scamander gets to do. Thus The
Crimes of Grindelwald ends up feeling like a huge introduction for the
third film with little meat of its own to chew on.
