Harry Potter: Every Wizarding World Movie Ranked Worst To Best
Where does the start of Johnny Depp and Jude Law's Fantastic Beasts war rank?
So much for it ending with the Deathly Hallows...
When it was announced that JK Rowling and Warner Bros were making a big screen adaptation of a text book from the Harry Potter universe, eyes that weren't moist with excitement rolled. When it was later announced that it would be five films, they positively tumbled. But slowly and surely, the project got more and more exciting: Eddie Redmayne was cast as Newt Scamander, the rest of the cast looked incredibly interesting and the sequels would look at the far more interesting story of Gellert Grindelwald's rise.
There is now new life in the franchise with the promise of more to come and we can only hope that the franchise goes from strength to strength. For now, though, there's a lot of reasons to dip back into the Wizarding World movies regularly.
But which of them is the best?
10. Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 1
It was always going to be a pretty controversial decision to split the final Harry Potter book in two, but it wasn't entirely unsuccessful: it just happens that the first half was rather badly out-performed by the second. That's what happens when you back-load it for spectacle though.
The Good
For all of its unevenness, there are some brilliant scenes. The Godric's Hollow sequence is brilliant and scary, and the infiltration of the Ministry is a hilarious and fitting sequence.
Also, the central trio's acting is the finest here that it is in the entire franchise - mostly because they're given more space to actually perform emotionally. And the animated Three Brothers sequence is lovely.
The Bad
The pacing again: at times it feels like a little bit of a slog, and very much a slow-building set-up for the bigger fireworks of the second part. That's not so much of a problem if you watch them back to back, but as a stand-alone, there's precious little resolution and it feels a little incomplete.