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=20 Considering that JK Rowling's= books have made several zillion pounds and her films have made several zil= lion more, it would take a lot of gall to read one of her screenplays and s= ay, actually, could you cut 50 pages? But her latest ?Wizarding World' inst= alment, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, would have been improv= ed if someone had said just that.The sequel to 2016's Fantastic Beasts and = Where to Find Them ? or, depending on how you look at it, the prequel to th= e Harry Potter series ? overflows with imagination and technical, well, wiz= ardry. The cutting-edge digital effects allow every last prop to move and m= etamorphose with balletic grace; Stuart Craig's production design is, as ev= er, a marvellous survey of historic architectural styles, and the dresses a= re so fabulous they overshadow the elves and dragons. An accompanying book = of photos and sketches would be something to treasure. And the film itself,= directed by Potter regular David Yates, is a grand achievement in many way= s. But it's also an unfocused, overwhelming and ultimately numbing sprawl t= hat seems to drag on forever.    It has about 15 subplots bu= t no discernible plotWhat's worse is that Fantastic Beasts has the same dar= k and stormy mood as Warner Bros' other live-action blockbuster franchise, = its DC superhero movies. It's a bleak catalogue of death, destruction and d= espair, with a colour palette ranging all the way from grey to black. This = joyless tone is established in the opening sequence, in which we meet the w= icked Grindelwald (Johnny Depp), a proto-Voldemort who wants witches and wi= zards to rule over us muggles. Grindelwald is locked up in America's Minist= ry of Magic in New York in 27, shortly after the events of the last film. B= ut he's due to be moved from one top-security cell to another in a differen= t town. And as anyone who has ever seen a horror film or a gangster movie w= ill know, that means that he is 100 per cent guaranteed to escape en route.= And escape he does. In an exciting, vertigo-inducing aerial set-piece soun= dtracked by roaring thunder and a rumbling orchestral score, Grindelwald mu= rders his guards ? and here it really is more like a horror movie than a ch= ildren's movie ? and flies off into the night.Oddly for a film with the sub= title The Crimes of Grindelwald, though, that's about it as far as Grindelw= ald's crimes are concerned. As played by Depp with corpse-like pallor and a= Johnny Rotten hairdo, Grindelwald is a suitably creepy, vampiric presence,= but he doesn't do much except muttering about a potential war between wiza= rds and muggles. And as this war was never mentioned in any of the Harry Po= tter novels, we know for a fact that it won't happen.Still, his escape from= New York to Paris is enough to lure the other characters to France. Princi= pally, there is Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), a man so shy that he mumbl= es his lines into the lapel of his Sherlock Holmes overcoat. Back in London= after his New York escapades in the last film, Newt visits the British Min= istry of Magic where his brother Theseus (Callum Turner) works as an Auror = (a wizard detective). There, Newt is instructed to go to Paris to find the = dangerously powerful Credence Barebone (Ezra Miller), a character who, much= like Kylo Ren in the most recent Star Wars films, is torn between the ligh= t and dark sides of the Force.    The film's colour scheme m= atches the contents of a goth's laundry basket Newt chooses not to accept t= his mission. He says he'd rather look after his magical flora and fauna ? a= nd, in the case of his Baby Groot-like pet beansprout, his magical flora wh= ich is also magical fauna. But then someone else asks him to Paris ? specif= ically, his favourite teacher from Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law). I= n a film that is generally as cheery as a documentary about deforestation i= n the Amazon, Law's Dumbledore is a welcome bright spot: his kindly smile a= nd avuncular manner are a tonic, and when he's shown teaching at Hogwarts, = the green grass surrounding the school is a bracing contrast to a colour sc= heme that otherwise matches the contents of a goth's laundry basket. Dumble= dore also supplies the film's most tantalising mystery: when will he change= from being a dapper gent in a three-piece suit, as he is in the 20s, to be= ing a hippy in floor-length robes, as he is when Richard Harris and Michael= Gambon play him during Harry Potter's schooldays? How old will he be when = he looks in the mirror one morning and says, forget it, I'm the headmaster,= if I want to go to work in my dressing gown and nightcap, who's going to s= top me?Anyway... back to Newt. In an example of Rowling's insistence on mak= ing every narrative element as convoluted as possible, he turns down Dumble= dore's request that he go to Paris, just as turned down the Ministry's requ= est that he go to Paris. It's not until he meets his old buddies from the p= revious film, Jacob (the likeable Dan Fogler) and Queenie (Alison Sudol, im= personating Marilyn Monroe) that Newt has a brilliant idea: he'll go to Par= is.He's not the only one. Also teleporting across the English Channel are N= ewt's old flame and US Auror, Tina (Katherine Waterston); his conflicted sc= hoolmate Leta Lestrange (Zoe Kravitz); a woman who can turn into a snake (C= laudia Kim); and many, many more. Just when you think you've got a handle o= n the cast, Fantastic Beasts will introduce some new characters to the crow= d, and then flash back to those characters' early lives. It's a film with a= bout 15 subplots, but no discernible plot. As it meanders from Paris to Hog= warts, from the present to the past, it abandons key characters for 10-minu= te stretches, and by the time it returns to them ? they're usually standing= on a rooftop ? it's difficult to remember where they were the last time yo= u saw them. The momentum never picks up. Late in the day, Newt's duck-bille= d mole (or whatever it is) does something crafty, but apart from that there= 's a marked absence of cunning plans and heroic acts. If you'll excuse the = pun, everyone just potters around. And there is no resolution whatsoever: a= fter all, there are three more films in the series to go ? and, knowing Row= ling's profligate creativity, there will probably be another five-film seri= es to follow.In the meantime, hardcore Potterheads will enjoy all the littl= e ways in which Rowling joins the dots between Fantastic Beasts and the ori= ginal Harry Potter stories. There are plenty of references to familiar char= acters and dynasties if that's what you're after. But if you're not a Potte= r obsessive and you're not enchanted by these footnotes, you'll want to kno= w why a family blockbuster about wizards should be incapable of conjuring u= p more than half a dozen smiles.Love film? Join BBC Culture Film Club on Fa= cebook, a community for film fanatics all over the world.If you would like = to comment on this story or anything else you have seen on BBC Culture, hea= d over to our Facebook page or message us on Twitter.And if you liked this = story, sign up for the weekly bbc.com features newsletter, called ?If You O= nly Read 6 Things This Week?. A handpicked selection of stories from BBC Fu= ture, Earth, Culture, Capital and Travel, delivered to your inbox every Fri= day. =20 3D""/ ------=_Part_529_1007456282.1541884266159--