12 Incredibly Successful Movies (That Nobody Likes)
4. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald
Gross: $654,855,901
As is inevitable with any Wizarding World movie, this second Fantastic Beasts movie was a global smash (although less so than the other nine films in this franchise) and as such, millions of fans worldwide faced a crushing disappointment.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald was a complete disaster. Not so much a film as an endless series of subplots, under-developed characters and plot twists running around in circles and searching for any kind of coherent narrative, this bears the unflattering distinction of being one of the worst-written and worst-structured Hollywood blockbusters in recent memory.
It does benefit from a strong cast, but even they can't cover up the film's only true aim: setting up the next sequel. That's the only thing this movie is built around (aside from a painfully bad plot twist) and pretty much all of it is just filler.
Add that to its miserable, joyless tone (it even features not one but Two baby death scenes), forgettable spectacle and many plot holes and you've got one ridiculously unsatisfying time at the movies that makes the Star Wars Prequels look like Citizen Kane.
How did someone as enormously talented as JK Rowling come up with this?!