Fantastic Beasts: 10 Reasons Why The Crimes Of Grindelwald Is A Massive Disappointment

10. It Ignores The Previous Film

The first ten minutes of The Crimes of Grindelwald are devoted to entirely undoing every single consequence from the third act of the previous film.

The opening of the film sees Johnny Depp's Gellert Grindelwald breaking free from his cell in the American Ministry of Magic during a transfer, undoing the arrest that only happened in the last few minutes of the previous film. Ezra Miller's Credence Barebone is suddenly alive again, which is given no explanation other than some generic exposition that simpy yadda-yaddas over the situation and hopes audiences don't notice.

Dan Fogler's Jacob Kowalski comes into the film with his memory immediately restored, after the climax of the first film essentially solely revolving around him and the rest of New York City being obliviated and having their memories erased.

Within minutes, all the consequences from the prior film are completely erased. It makes for convoluted and disjointed storytelling, which is all-the-stranger considering that Rowling wrote both of these scripts herself.

Why put in all of these consequences at the end of the first film if you're simply going to completely ignore/undo them and set everything back to the status quo at the start of the next film?