Harry Potter: The Biggest Mistake Each Wizarding World Film Has Made

1. Fantastic Beasts The Crimes Of Grindelwald: The Awful Story

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And finally we come to Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, which is one of the worst entries in a great franchise ever. Despite solid spectacle, the ever-strong cast and some delightful fan service, these positives are overshadowed by the ghastly story, which does nothing but set up future sequels and drop awful plot twists.

The entire film is Too Many Different Characters and subplots circling around the place looking for one MacGuffin after the next with no arcs or character development whatsoever, before the film suddenly arrives at a poorly-done finale.

Once the film arrives at this point nothing much has really happened and most of the characters, including protagonist Newt Scamander and antagonist Grindelwald, barely even appear because of how overstuffed the movie is.

There are a lot of particularly awful individual scenes in this movie too. The once-good relationships between Queenie and Jacob (Alison Sudol and Dan Fogler), and Newt and Tina (Eddie Redmayne and Katherine Waterson) are messed up, there's that awful, WTF flashback in which Leta explains how she got her baby brother killed and the ending is just intolerable.

Queenie randomly joins Grindelwald, Leta meaninglessly dies and plot twist: Creedence Barebone is Dumbledore's brother. Huh?!

Thanks to all this terrible writing Crimes of Grindelwald is an incoherent, dull, mean-spirited, empty, fantastically annoying and painfully bad mess of a movie. Let's just hope it hasn't killed this beloved franchise dead.

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