 Hey guys, this has been a review that I've been really looking forward to, finally doing it. This is Bree, if you guys remember Bree, she did the review for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. We also did a reaction video about the trailer for Crimes of Grindelwald. And... Grindelwald! Yeah. We'll bring her back for the review of this film because I feel that we might have some interesting polarizing ideas as well as some interesting kind of just thoughts about the film. But I guess just firstly, what did you think of it? I liked it at first and then I thought more about it and now I have a lot more feelings. When I once saw it, I had heard all the negative news about it. I didn't think it was terrible. I just thought it was boring and very broken. This film basically is proof that JK Rowling needs a script supervisor. She can write a book, but she can't write a script. I know she's a fantastic writer and everything, but those aren't the same mediums. You need someone who's involved in big movie media stuff like this. But what were things you liked about this film? What did you think of it in terms of just more building on the lore? And I guess the whole character of Grindelwald because you got to see Death not drunkenness. Well, what you said building up. Basically, to me, I did feel it was a filler movie. And you kind of need those when there's a lot of movies. Well, that's supposed to be five. Yeah, so you kind of need movies to kind of develop what's happening in the storyline to connect dots. So I liked, in the ending, what can come up with future movies. I guess. Yeah, but you're right. I think the only thing that really stands out in terms of what happened in this movie is Grindelwald escapes. And that's it. Some people die, some characters die. Yeah, I don't really understand what this set up. Credence is Dumbledore's sibling though. Yeah, that's another whole bag of worms. That's so much power and that's what I mean. That's another big bag of worms in that too. A lot of people like that doesn't make any sense apparently either. I don't know how it doesn't make sense. But mind you though, she did establish in the first one that obscures last only ten years, right? Yes. All of a sudden, Newt says, Oh, this puts a stronger bone than others. It's like, oh cool, JK, you're rewriting your own lore in your own movie. Cool. And now she just seems to have completely forgotten about that. Credence doesn't seem to have any problems being this massive ball of terror and power. It's not killing him at all. He's just, hey, Nagini, let's go. No, he's clearly not stable. He seems a lot more stable in this than he was in the first one. I'm not objecting to the way they're developing his character. Oh no. Anything can happen, right? Oh, true. I think that's just another kind of twirl around with the issues. There's so many different storylines happening. There's Queenie and Porky. There's Newt and what's her name? Porky. There's Grindelwald obviously. Dumbledore's addition and then Credence. Yeah. And it's like, wow, there's a lot of movies happening right now. You couldn't have split this into different ones? No? Okay. I did like they kept with his visual stuff. I think that it's good for now. But the thing that I am a little worried about is that since David Yates is directing all five movies, we're not going to have a change of theme and kind of visual style like the Harry Potter movies did. At least the first four. First five, really. Because Chris Cronland is Chris Columbus, Alfonso Cronzo, Mike Newell and then David Yates. So there's been a change and I'm kind of worried that David Yates is going to just... It's going to be too consistent. It's going to be kind of the same film over and over again. Well, I mean, it definitely wasn't compared to the last one. I felt it was very similar. I think for me it wasn't similar in the ways that I would want it to be similar. Admittedly I had more color than God. That was something that I was drastically missing from the first movie. Everything was so gray and dull in America and then France has all these colors and their ministry was like a really cool looking building. So I like that they added a little bit more variety, a little more color and there weren't... I thought the dragon cat thing was kind of funny. I like the animals and I like that part. I do. I loved it so much. I thought it was better than the weird elephant rhino thing. There has to be weird combinations of everything though because it can't be... It has to be cool and weird. But to me there wasn't enough animal development or like animal storyline. Like it's fantastic beasts in the world to find them. I think that's the problem that they shouldn't have kept that fantastic beast as a name holder. It should have just been different movie names throughout. I guess because she's like, oh Harry Potter and so I'm going to do a fantastic beast and so I think that she's written herself into a pickle because I very... I bet she's trying to force monsters and animals and whatnot into these movies and it's going to be so shoehorned in by the last one. He's literally going to bring a dragon hawk or something. That's how it works. The combination of things... Well apparently he's not even going to be the main character anymore which kind of needs to happen because the final battle between Dumbledore and Grindelwald... We're basing this off of a textbook writer, right? Yeah, that's what I loved so much about the first one. That's what I loved. The thing, basically Newt encapsulates the feeling that I get when I watch the first couple Harry Potter movies as a kid. He encapsulates the whimsical and wonderful and wholeheartedness and just special people. He's a special person so to me he brought back the nostalgia that came with Harry Potter. Oh I can see that. It's sad for me to see it not continuing because that's really what kept me... I went to that movie not expecting anything when I first saw Fantastic Beasts and I was so happy with it because it captured that. Yeah, I thought it was better than I thought it was going to be too. I was very worried. I found the side characters really enjoyable. Queenie and... What's his name? The guy who... I love him too. It's such a wonderful character. I just remember him from that ping pong movie. Balls of Fury. Yeah but that's another issue, just the whole Queenie thing. She just switches sides like that and she just watched Grindelwald murder 20 people in cold blood and she's like yeah I'm going with you. I can read your mind. I can read your mind and clearly figure out that you're up to nasty shit but I'm gonna go with you because apparently I'm susceptible. I'm susceptible. I'm curious to see why that happened. Oh she better have a goddamn good reason. In the grand scheme of things like what was the thought process to... Like how is that going to end up? Is that going to become a different story that really affects something else in a future story? What was that? And if they don't do anything with that I'm gonna be so upset. Yeah I have a feeling it might just get dropped. No because in that ending when they're talking like she's being really helpful to him and maybe she'll be like a right hand. No. Woman because she can read people's minds and she's clearly corrupted. Well I guess that ties into the final thing. Like Grindelwald what did you think of Depp's performance? I've heard a lot of people say that they thought that he was a good. They someone thought that he had presence. I honestly just thought he looked bored. He's like I'm not being weird. I'm in white makeup. I've got two different colored eyes but I'm not weird. I don't know what to do. I think that goes into my feelings of there wasn't very much character development. Oh no. Which again was something that I felt was really important and I really enjoyed in the first one. And I hate comparing the movie so much to the first one but it was hard not to. So for Grindelwald it was hard to get enticed by his character because there wasn't very much there so I wasn't attached to him as a villain. Oh yeah well because like nothing really happens in this movie. Like you said it's a placeholder film. Yeah. For what's going to happen. Like maybe the next one will have a lot more. But this is just again coming full circle. I really feel that Rowling needs someone to help her write these movies. She needs someone to be like you know you know that you got to tie that loose end. No that twist doesn't make sense. No McGonagall wasn't even born yet. Oh Nicholas Flamel. Okay I thought he was he was a bit fan-servicing but I thought he was kind of cool. I thought his inclusion was funny. I read so much about his name. Yeah you've never seen what he looked like right. And I'm Nicholas Flamel you're like holy shit. Yeah and he's brittle. You know my rating out of seven. For that what would you give this film? Um. You're gonna four and a half? Yeah. I'm gonna give this film a three because I feel that the film had some cool parts to it. There are some narrative issues. It's kind of boring. But it's not the be all end all worse. There's been a lot of worse movies this year. I don't think it was a bad movie. I think it was a boring movie. I think that's my my biggest crime for it. I felt very bored when I was watching this. The crime of... No. There's lots more to come so... Yeah but anyway thank you for being back again. I'm very happy to have you back. It's been a while. So you know you guys can wait and see whenever we hopefully can do a reaction video for the trailer for the next movie. And then... I'll cry more. I think I cried in the last one. You got really excited. And I was like hey that's cool. Wait that doesn't make sense. I don't know. It's Hogwarts. I cried. I cried when it showed Hogwarts in the last one. In the reactions people loved you. They hated me. They hated me. So I'm expecting the same thing for this video. So anyways guys thank you for watching. I hope you liked it. If you did leave a like and if you're interested in more maybe subscribe. Otherwise see you guys next time. Bye!