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I haven't seen this yet but it sounds really bad. I got that sense not just from this topic but just from the general idea of the film itself and reading a few reviews of it that kinda confirmed what I thought.

I loved 75% of the first Fantastic Beasts actually - like, I really enjoyed the actual, y'know, fantastic beasts themselves, and that scene in Newt's briefcase is genuinely awe-inspiring. Then it kind of lost the plot and got really weird and dark. The execution scene was really offputting in a bad way and then the big dark cloud destroying everything was just a stupid way to end the movie. That whole plot felt like it should have been a second movie itself - maybe the stuff with the orphans could have been good in the right context but it felt so out of place in that film where I just wanted a fun adventure with Newt and his fantastic beasts. Those parts I absolutely adored. The rest of it I hated. It was such a mixed bag.

This movie seemed like it was going to double down hard on the parts I hated and also go hard on some deep lore stuff that I don't care about all while being Johnny Depp centric which I couldn't give a shit about. Jude Law as Dumbledore seems kind of charming, but other than that this seemed like a hard pass for me.