Controversy and bad writing has undermined the Fantastic Beasts franchise from the beginning.
... [+]In Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the teaching position of Defense Against the Dark Arts is known to be cursed, as no teacher ever makes it past one year without being plagued by scandal, bad luck and strange magic.
Two fatal errors were made at the end of the franchise’s first film, concerning the dark wizard Grindelwald. First, the character unmasked his Colin Farrell face to reveal Johnny Depp, playing yet another eccentric with silly hair, a schtick that audiences didn’t seem to care for anymore, after years of watching Jack Sparrow fade into a listless self-parody.
Grindelwald’s presence split the story in two, as the whimsical adventures with magical creatures combined with a tale of how the wizarding world … descended into fascism? The sequel saw the franchise become needlessly dark, featuring references to the Holocaust and babies being murdered, clashing with the original “magical creatures are on the loose!” premise of the franchise; the two storylines never merged into a cohesive whole, melting into an incomprehensible puddle.
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