The "Harry Potter" derivative IP film "Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore's Mystery" is currently being released in mainland China, and its Douban score is 6.2, which can be said to be disappointing.
Like most Hollywood sequels, "Fantastic Beasts" can't escape the downward trend of the sequel's reputation, from 7.4 points in the first part, 7.0 points in the second part, and now hovering on the edge of the passing line. Many netizens directly "poor comments" to serve: perfunctory script, dull adaptation, magical universe of children's play, the truth of sesame and mung bean points, so I have made a mystery for three episodes, and after revealing it, there is no surprise.

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On the basis of such a large number of fans, even if it is to take a picture of the daily life of the wizarding world of wizards, the big IP that can make fans excited, why does it "roll over"?
In fact, when this film was filmed, the inconsistency between the content and the title was already highlighted. Fantastic beasts, who were supposed to be the series' main characters, didn't play a role in the story. The first important role is to pave the way for the adult magical world. In this one, only a magical animal, the unicorn, is only a tool to promote the development of the story.
As a derivative IP of "Harry Potter", the audience went to the wonders of animals in the magical world at the beginning of the birth of "Fantastic Beasts", and only later found out that the original series of films was intended for Harry Potter. On the basis of the magical world, build a larger, adult magical world. In this context, the main line of the story becomes the love-hate relationship between Dumbledore and Grindelwald. Therefore, the title of the film is not so much "Fantastic Beasts" as it is "Dumbledore Biography" that is more suitable for the content of the film. This also disappointed some viewers who went to "Fantastic Beasts".

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Since the beginning of "Fantastic Beasts: Grindelwald", the story is no longer the focus of the presentation of magical animals. Except for the basic magic settings, everything is so unfamiliar to fans, and this world is not destined to accompany us. The familiar magical world where he grew up.
But even if it is not the magical world familiar to fans, as long as the film tells the stories in the adult magical world solidly and credibly, it will be a better expansion of the magical world of Harry Potter, and the word of mouth will not be reduced to this. It's a pity that Fantastic Beasts 3 was too lazy to deal with Grindelwald's conspiracy and the process of uncovering the truth as the larger magical world unfolded.
Grindelwald wants to become the leader of the magical world, but he must be approved by the unicorn. Against the background of such a grand and conspiracy narrative, he is so playful in handling the legitimacy of such a magical genius. The story The logic is difficult to stand up to scrutiny. The legitimacy of being a magical leader is easily relegated to "unicorn approval," and the film bypasses the political complexity it should have and the richness of its characters. It's hard to convince the audience to immerse themselves in this magical world.

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In addition, for another wave of Dumbledore and Grindelwald CP fans, what they are looking forward to is actually seeing the love and killing of the two strongest wizards who once had a deep friendship in this magical world and broke up. . But in the actual story, there are very few interactive scenes between the two, and the contradictions cannot stand scrutiny. In the absence of the story context, the scene in which the two sides enchanted each other's heartbeats in the final duel seemed so inexplicable. Under these circumstances, the blood alliance that could have excited fans a bit was discouraged.
The series has come this far and has long since left the magical world we are familiar with, but it has not succeeded in building the emotional bond between Dumbledore and Grindelwald, which can immerse the audience in it.
It is not difficult to see from the details that the spells that fans are familiar with, Expelliarmus (except your weapon), Lumos (fluorescent flashing), and the "Avada Kedavra (Avada gnawing the melon)" no longer exist, replaced by A battle of high-level spells between high-level wizards. Since he is a high-level wizard, he will naturally not recite spells when casting spells.

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In this world of adult wizards, fans have become laymen, and every move made by senior wizards with wands is playing a riddle in the eyes of fans. It's no different from the spectacle presented in ordinary fantasy films, and the wizarding world has lost its charm. Even the wands in Dumbledore's and Greenwald's hands were replaced with lightsabers, and there seemed to be no sense of disobedience.
In this case, what attracts "Ha fans" in the film seems to be only those elements in the wizarding world of Hogwarts: Hogwarts Academy, House of Requirement, Golden Snitch, Screaming Books... .. But under this leaking script, those "feelings" can't arouse much interest in "Ha fans".

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Warners seems to have forgotten the original intention when Harry Potter became a phenomenon. The reason why the "Harry Potter" series can accompany the growth of generations is not only by cool magic, but also about youth and growth at its core. Although there is no Voldemort in our world, we, like Harry, Ron, and Hermione, have grown up from ignorant children to "adults" who have to face the society alone. Naturally, this generation follows that group Our shared memories of the little wizard growing up.
The "Fantastic Beasts" series lacks the core core to capture the audience. The spectacles shown in the movie seem to be less competitive in the industrial background of Hollywood. Coupled with the leaking script, the audience's "feelings of the magical world" "How long can it go on?