'Fantastic Beasts 3' reveals Dumbledore's gay romance (spoilers)

Contents:

• SO, HOW GAY IS ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE,’ EXACTLY?
• DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD FALLY GET THEIR GAY MOMENT FANTASTIC BEASTS 3
• SEVEN CLU THAT ‘POTTER’S’ DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY
• IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? ALB' RELATNSHIP WH GRLWALD EXPLAED
• WARNER BROS. CENSORS GAY RELATNSHIP DIALOGUE ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE’ FOR CHA RELEASE
• J.K. ROWLG RPONDS TO GAY DUMBLEDORE NTROVERSY
• NOT EVEN GAY DUMBLEDORE CAN SAVE ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE,’ J.K. ROWLG’S LATT MS
• NOT EVEN GAY DUMBLEDORE CAN SAVE ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE,’ J.K. ROWLG’S LATT MSTHE MAGIC IS GONEIT’S TIME TO PUT THIS MIDDLG, MONEY-MAKG ANCHISE OUT TO PASTURE. NICK SCHAGERENTERTAMENT CRICPUBLISHED APR. 05, 2022 10:00AM EDT COURTY OF WARNER BROS. PICTURFANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE FOLLOWS THE FOOTSTEPS OF FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD THAT JT AS THAT 2018 PRECSOR FEATURED VIRTUALLY NO CRIM, THIS THIRD STALLMENT THE HARRY POTTER PREQUEL ANCHISE BOASTS NO GENUE SECRETS. THE REVELATN THAT DUMBLEDORE IS GAY IS BOTH NOT A BOMBSHELL (SCE WAS OVERTLY IMPLIED BY THE LAST FILM, FOLLOWG YEARS OF PUBLIC CLARATNS BY J.K. ROWLG HERSELF) AND THE SORT OF TEPID EYE-OPENER THAT ONLY THE MOST DIE-HARD OF POTTERPHIL WILL RE ABOUT—SOMETHG THAT N ALSO BE SAID ABOUT THE ENAVOR AS A WHOLE. FUNCTNAL YET NEVER MAGIL, THIS PERFUNCTORY B OF IP EXPLOATN IS A REMR THAT ALL GOOD THGS E TO AN END, EVEN IF THE POWERS-THAT-BE KEEP KG THEM FOR ALL THEY’RE WORTH. DIRECTED BY DAVID YAT, WHO’S NOW HELMED THE PAST SEVEN SERI ENTRI AND ULD LIKELY E A NEW SANDBOX WHICH TO PLAY, THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE CLUS NEHER TRANS CHARACTERS NOR ANTI-TRANS SENTIMENTS, WHICH SHOULD KEEP OM TAKG CENTER STAGE CREATOR AND -WRER ROWLG’S NEVER-ENDG TERF WAR. WHAT DO HAVE, MERCIFULLY, IS A NSIRABLY LS NVOLUTED PLOT THAN THE CRIM OF GRLWALD, WHICH TANGLED SELF UP KNOTS TO NO APPRECIABLE END. ROWLG AND ANCHISE VET STEVE KLOV STREAMLE THEIR SCRIPT AS MUCH AS IS HUMANELY POSSIBLE, TH PROVIDG A MEASURE OF MOMENTUM THAT WAS ABSENT OM THE PRR OUTG. IN TERMS OF PACE, THE FILM PROV RELATIVELY SWIFT, AND IF STILL GETS BOGGED DOWN A FEW UNNECSARY TOURS, GENERALLY MATAS URSE THROUGHOUT, CULMATG WH A SWEET AND SATISFYG DA.PICKG UP WHERE THE CRIM OF GRLWALD LEFT OFF, THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE FDS HOGWARTS PROFSOR ALB DUMBLEDORE (JU LAW) ENLISTG BEAST WHISPERER NEWT SMANR (EDDIE REDMAYNE), HIS BROTHER THS (CALLUM TURNER), MUGGLE BAKER JAB KOWALSKI (DAN FOGLER), AND TWO ADDNAL WIZARDS—LALLY HICKS (JSI WILLIAMS) AND YUF KAMA (WILLIAM NADYLAM)—OR A WORLD-SAVG ASSIGNMENT: THWART THE PLANS OF GELLERT GRLWALD (MADS MIKKELSEN), WHO WANTS TO WAGE WAR AGAST HUMANKD ORR TO SOLIDIFY MAGIL PEOPLE’S PLACE ATOP THE EVOLUTNARY FOOD CHA. DUMBLEDORE N’T PERSONALLY TAKE DOWN GRLWALD BEE, WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG LOVERS, THEY STCK A MAGIL PACT THAT PREVENTED THEM OM ENGAGG DIRECT BAT—A NVENIENT TWIST (RRIED OVER OM THE LAST FILM) THAT’S FURTHER PLITED BY GRLWALD OBTAG AND KILLG A MAGIL CREATURE THAT GIV HIM THE ABILY TO SEE TO THE FUTURE. TO PE WH THAT SUATN, DUMBLEDORE NCTS A SCHEME WHICH NONE OF HIS ACPLIC UNRSTAND PLETELY, THEREBY CREATG NFG MOV AND MOTIVATNS THAT GRLWALD N’T CIPHER. THERE’S NO MENTN OF THE FACT THAT GRLWALD NOW LOOKS LIKE MIKKELSEN RATHER THAN JOHNNY DEPP, AND THAT’S NOT THE ONLY THG ELID THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE; THE SILG OF ORIGAL ANCHISE -LEAD KATHERE WATERSTON IS ALSO PAFULLY NSPICUO. SUCH CLUNKS IS FELT ELSEWHERE AS WELL, BE WILLIAMS ASSUMG ZOë KRAVZ’S ROLE AS THE PROCEEDGS’ HEROIC PERSON OF LOR (AND APPARENT THS ROMANTIC TERT), QUEENIE’S (ALISON SUDOL) NTUED, NTRIVED CISN TO STICK WH GRLWALD SPE WANTG TO BE WH HER BELOVED JAB, OR THE HANDY DISVERY THAT GRLWALD’S FORIGHT-BTOWG CREATURE HAS A TW SIBLG THAT WDS UP NEWT’S RE (THEREBY GIVG HIM A UNTER TO HIS ADVERSARY’S POWER). AS WH HER PREV FANTASTIC BEASTS SCREENPLAYS, THERE’S A SENSE THAT ROWLG IS MAKG UP NEW L AND PARADIGMS AND THEN IMMEDIATELY VISG EXPEDIENT WAYS TO CIRCUMVENT THEM, WHICH NTERS A GOOD AL OF THE DRAMA’S STAK. GRLWALD IS AN TOLERANT -AGAST-THEM TYRANT AND THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE STS HIS POLIL ASCENSN OBV NAZI TERMS, REPLETE WH GERMANY’S MISTRY OF MAGIC NSPIRG TO MAKE HIM A NDIDATE THE ELECTN FOR LEAR OF THE WIZARDG WORLD. HOW GRLWALD MIGHT RENCILE HIS HLER ASPIRATNS AND HIS HOMOSEXUALY, HOWEVER, IS NEVER PROPERLY ADDRSED—NOR IS JEWISH JAB’S HORROR OVER THIS TURN OF EVENTS—JT AS DUMBLEDORE’S ORIGAL KSHIP WH GRLWALD (AND HIS E) IS SKIMMED OVER LT ANYONE PAY TOO CLOSE ATTENTN TO S UNBELIEVABILY. YAT DISTRACTS DIENC OM FOCG ON FAR-FETCHED AND/OR ILLOGIL ELEMENTS WH LOTS OF CGI RAZZLE-DAZZLE. MUCH OF THAT IS IMPRSIVELY MOUNTED, ALBE A NOW-FAIAR MANNER; THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY TIM ONE N SEE MEN AND WOMEN PRODUCE WONRS VIA THEIR WANDS BEFORE ALL BE OLD HAT. “YAT DISTRACTS DIENC OM FOCG ON FAR-FETCHED AND/OR ILLOGIL ELEMENTS WH LOTS OF CGI RAZZLE-DAZZLE. MUCH OF THAT IS IMPRSIVELY MOUNTED, ALBE A NOW-FAIAR MANNER; THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY TIM ONE N SEE MEN AND WOMEN PRODUCE WONRS VIA THEIR WANDS BEFORE ALL BE OLD HAT.” A FUNDAMENTAL SHORTG OF THE ENTIRE FANTASTIC BEASTS ANCHISE IS THAT, UNLIKE THE HARRY POTTER SAGA, NEWT’S RELATNSHIP TO THE GRANR BATTLE AGAST GRLWALD IS TANGENTIAL; STEAD OF HAVG A PERSONAL NNECTN TO THE FIGHT (AS HARRY DID WH VOLMORT), HE’S SIMPLY A NICE GUY SWEPT UP A LARGER SOCPOLIL STORM. REDMAYNE NTU TO DO HIS UAL TWCHY-WEIRDO ROUTE, BUT HE FEELS LS CENTRAL TO THE STORY THAN EVER BEFORE, SCE ROWLG MAK HIM AND HIS HORT BLD PAWNS OF DUMBLEDORE, WHO’S ALSO NOT MUCH OF A CHARISMATIC PRENCE, THIS SPE ROWLG GIVG HIM SOME ADDNAL FAY-TRAGEDY BAGGAGE AND LAW EMBODYG HIM WH THE RIGHT MIXTURE OF NOBILY, POSURE, AND SOUL. THE FILM’S TLE NOTWHSTANDG, DUMBLEDORE IS A LIKABLE PUPPET MASTER WHO’S NOT VERY ENIGMATIC, CLUDG WHEN TO HIS PREFERENCE FOR MEN—A TOPIC THAT HE DISCS WH THE SUALNS OF SOMEONE WHO DON’T THK HE’S SAYG ANYTHG SURPRISG. MADS MIKKELSEN AS GELLERT GRLWALD FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORECOURTY OF WARNER BROS. PICTUR TRADG DEPP’S ORNATE HAIR AND STUMG FOR A MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD SU-AND-TIE STYLE, MIKKELSEN IS THE FT ASPECT OF THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE. YET HE’S NIED AN OPPORTUNY TO TLY ENLIVEN THIS TALE, WHICH PREFERS TO WASTE TIME ON GRLWALD’S MN—AND SUPPOSED WEAPON OF DUMBLEDORE STCTN—CRENCE BAREBONE (EZRA MILLER), A PETULANT BORE WHO, LIKE MOST EVERYONE ELSE, ACROSS AS A NARRATIVE VICE MASQUERADG AS A FLH-AND-BLOOD PERSON. THE FACT THAT ONE N UNRSTAND WHAT’S GOG ON OM MOMENT TO MOMENT IS, LIGHT OF THE CRIM OF GRLWALD’S HEAD-SPNG PLITNS, A SMALL RELIEF. AND YAT’ STEWARDSHIP REMAS EFFICIENT, FULL OF LUCIDLY IMAGATIVE SET PIEC THAT NEVER QUE OVERWHELM THE MATERIAL’S EMOTNS. UNFORTUNATELY, THIS TENTPOLE’S CLOCKWORK MANVERS ARE SO ROTE THAT THERE’S NO SPENSE DURG S TIM OF GREAT PERIL, AND NO ELATN OVER S TRIUMPHS. IT’S MERELY MORE OF THE SAME SPECTACLE THAT ROWLG HAS BEEN PEDDLG FOR S, RRIED OUT WH REASONABLE PANACHE BUT GENERATG DIMISHG-RETURNS EXCEMENT. NICK SCHAGER

SO, HOW GAY IS ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE,’ EXACTLY?

And nsirg the tle of the film — which refers to some hidn mysteri the past of Hogwarts headmaster and future Harry Potter mentor Alb Dumbledore (Ju Law) — there might be one qutn loomg over this latt “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Fd Them” film: jt how gay is ? Followg the publitn of the fal “Harry Potter” novel, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, ” 2007, Rowlg revealed that Dumbledore was gay and that his prr relatnship wh famed evil wizard Grlwald (now played by Mads Mikkelsen), was ed romantic. But now, two movi and wh a much more sympathetic Grlwald, they fally n properly explore Dumbledore’s romantic entanglement wh a very mad rultg film is perhaps gayer than you were expectg, but not nearly as gay as should be.

DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD FALLY GET THEIR GAY MOMENT FANTASTIC BEASTS 3

) And that’s about as emotnally naked (and gay) as the movie are a uple more passg referenc to their relatnship sprkled throughout the very long film. Dumbledore is fally g out as gay and he is dog so a subtle manner the new Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of 2007, JK Rowlg rocked the world of Harry Potter fans after revealg that she always thought Alb Dumbledore was gay. Fans were eply shaken bee nothg the books dited the Hogwarts headmaster beg homosexual bis JK alludg to his once-close relatnship wh the evil wizard Gellert, fally, Dumbledore and Grlwald have got their gay moment on the show when the former nfs his love for the villa.

SEE: What happened to Fez Mallatia as rapper reveals he is battlg an illnsScreenshots om Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore – Dumbledore’s First ArmyDumbledore gets a gay moment Fantastic Beasts 3In a new clip om Fantastic Beasts 3, we see Dumbledore nfsg his love to Grlwald.

(@avillashoe) March 17, 2022 View Tweet Gay Dumbledore is the only reason I am watchg the new HP movi.

SEVEN CLU THAT ‘POTTER’S’ DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY

Rowlg first clared that Alb Dumbledore is gay, the new Fantastic Beasts movie has fally ma non. The Harry Potter thor first ma headl 2007 when she revealed that she "always thought of Dumbledore as gay, " speakg to fans at a post-publitn event for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. On one hand, 's surprisgly rehg to see a mastream tentpole movie wh a nonilly gay tle character — pecially one who acknowledg his sexualy on screen.

Rowlg announced she had always imaged one of the ma characters the “Harry Potter” seri -- Alb Dumbledore -- to be gay.

Slack is credibly fluent “Potter” textual analysis, and we knew that if anyone uld predict Rowlg’s curveball, would be COVERAGE: Harry PotterSpeakg om his home Boston, Slack said he hadn’t gused that Dumbledore was gay, but hdsight, he was able to pot to specific character tras of the Hogwarts headmaster that might have dited his sexual orientatn. Below he tells seven textual clu that Dumbledore was gay.

IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? ALB' RELATNSHIP WH GRLWALD EXPLAED

And, of urse, a popular thought among many scholars is that the matro Leonardo was gay. The fact that so few of realized he was gay. “No matter how many ‘clu’ I n put down that Dumbledore was gay, no matter how many lns of people have read the books aga and aga, Rowlg surprised even the most die-hard fans wh the announcement that Dumbledore was gay.

WARNER BROS. CENSORS GAY RELATNSHIP DIALOGUE ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE’ FOR CHA RELEASE

And the end, the fact that we never would have gused is what mak Dumbledore beg gay so real. So many tim I have enuntered iends who are gay that I never would have predicted.

Rowlg over the years, cludg Alb Dumbledore's sexual orientatn – so, is Dumbledore gay, and what is his relatnship wh Gellert Grlwald? Outsi the movi, Rowlg answered the "is Dumbledore gay? When Alb Dumbledore Was Confirmed To Be Gay.

J.K. ROWLG RPONDS TO GAY DUMBLEDORE NTROVERSY

Those spicns were nfirmed 2007 durg a readg of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prce at Carnegie Hall, where Rowlg was asked if Dumbledore ever fell love, and she replied that she “always thought of Dumbledore as gay” even revealg that Dumbledore had been love wh Gellert Grlwald. Rowlg even shared that a le the early script for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prce had Dumbledore sayg he “knew a girl once, ” and she had to add a note on the marg lettg them know that Dumbledore is gay.

NOT EVEN GAY DUMBLEDORE CAN SAVE ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE,’ J.K. ROWLG’S LATT MS

Why Dumbledore Wasn't Confirmed As Gay In Harry Potter Movi Or Books.

NOT EVEN GAY DUMBLEDORE CAN SAVE ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE,’ J.K. ROWLG’S LATT MSTHE MAGIC IS GONEIT’S TIME TO PUT THIS MIDDLG, MONEY-MAKG ANCHISE OUT TO PASTURE. NICK SCHAGERENTERTAMENT CRICPUBLISHED APR. 05, 2022 10:00AM EDT COURTY OF WARNER BROS. PICTURFANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE FOLLOWS THE FOOTSTEPS OF FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD THAT JT AS THAT 2018 PRECSOR FEATURED VIRTUALLY NO CRIM, THIS THIRD STALLMENT THE HARRY POTTER PREQUEL ANCHISE BOASTS NO GENUE SECRETS. THE REVELATN THAT DUMBLEDORE IS GAY IS BOTH NOT A BOMBSHELL (SCE WAS OVERTLY IMPLIED BY THE LAST FILM, FOLLOWG YEARS OF PUBLIC CLARATNS BY J.K. ROWLG HERSELF) AND THE SORT OF TEPID EYE-OPENER THAT ONLY THE MOST DIE-HARD OF POTTERPHIL WILL RE ABOUT—SOMETHG THAT N ALSO BE SAID ABOUT THE ENAVOR AS A WHOLE. FUNCTNAL YET NEVER MAGIL, THIS PERFUNCTORY B OF IP EXPLOATN IS A REMR THAT ALL GOOD THGS E TO AN END, EVEN IF THE POWERS-THAT-BE KEEP KG THEM FOR ALL THEY’RE WORTH. DIRECTED BY DAVID YAT, WHO’S NOW HELMED THE PAST SEVEN SERI ENTRI AND ULD LIKELY E A NEW SANDBOX WHICH TO PLAY, THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE CLUS NEHER TRANS CHARACTERS NOR ANTI-TRANS SENTIMENTS, WHICH SHOULD KEEP OM TAKG CENTER STAGE CREATOR AND -WRER ROWLG’S NEVER-ENDG TERF WAR. WHAT DO HAVE, MERCIFULLY, IS A NSIRABLY LS NVOLUTED PLOT THAN THE CRIM OF GRLWALD, WHICH TANGLED SELF UP KNOTS TO NO APPRECIABLE END. ROWLG AND ANCHISE VET STEVE KLOV STREAMLE THEIR SCRIPT AS MUCH AS IS HUMANELY POSSIBLE, TH PROVIDG A MEASURE OF MOMENTUM THAT WAS ABSENT OM THE PRR OUTG. IN TERMS OF PACE, THE FILM PROV RELATIVELY SWIFT, AND IF STILL GETS BOGGED DOWN A FEW UNNECSARY TOURS, GENERALLY MATAS URSE THROUGHOUT, CULMATG WH A SWEET AND SATISFYG DA.PICKG UP WHERE THE CRIM OF GRLWALD LEFT OFF, THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE FDS HOGWARTS PROFSOR ALB DUMBLEDORE (JU LAW) ENLISTG BEAST WHISPERER NEWT SMANR (EDDIE REDMAYNE), HIS BROTHER THS (CALLUM TURNER), MUGGLE BAKER JAB KOWALSKI (DAN FOGLER), AND TWO ADDNAL WIZARDS—LALLY HICKS (JSI WILLIAMS) AND YUF KAMA (WILLIAM NADYLAM)—OR A WORLD-SAVG ASSIGNMENT: THWART THE PLANS OF GELLERT GRLWALD (MADS MIKKELSEN), WHO WANTS TO WAGE WAR AGAST HUMANKD ORR TO SOLIDIFY MAGIL PEOPLE’S PLACE ATOP THE EVOLUTNARY FOOD CHA. DUMBLEDORE N’T PERSONALLY TAKE DOWN GRLWALD BEE, WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG LOVERS, THEY STCK A MAGIL PACT THAT PREVENTED THEM OM ENGAGG DIRECT BAT—A NVENIENT TWIST (RRIED OVER OM THE LAST FILM) THAT’S FURTHER PLITED BY GRLWALD OBTAG AND KILLG A MAGIL CREATURE THAT GIV HIM THE ABILY TO SEE TO THE FUTURE. TO PE WH THAT SUATN, DUMBLEDORE NCTS A SCHEME WHICH NONE OF HIS ACPLIC UNRSTAND PLETELY, THEREBY CREATG NFG MOV AND MOTIVATNS THAT GRLWALD N’T CIPHER. THERE’S NO MENTN OF THE FACT THAT GRLWALD NOW LOOKS LIKE MIKKELSEN RATHER THAN JOHNNY DEPP, AND THAT’S NOT THE ONLY THG ELID THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE; THE SILG OF ORIGAL ANCHISE -LEAD KATHERE WATERSTON IS ALSO PAFULLY NSPICUO. SUCH CLUNKS IS FELT ELSEWHERE AS WELL, BE WILLIAMS ASSUMG ZOë KRAVZ’S ROLE AS THE PROCEEDGS’ HEROIC PERSON OF LOR (AND APPARENT THS ROMANTIC TERT), QUEENIE’S (ALISON SUDOL) NTUED, NTRIVED CISN TO STICK WH GRLWALD SPE WANTG TO BE WH HER BELOVED JAB, OR THE HANDY DISVERY THAT GRLWALD’S FORIGHT-BTOWG CREATURE HAS A TW SIBLG THAT WDS UP NEWT’S RE (THEREBY GIVG HIM A UNTER TO HIS ADVERSARY’S POWER). AS WH HER PREV FANTASTIC BEASTS SCREENPLAYS, THERE’S A SENSE THAT ROWLG IS MAKG UP NEW L AND PARADIGMS AND THEN IMMEDIATELY VISG EXPEDIENT WAYS TO CIRCUMVENT THEM, WHICH NTERS A GOOD AL OF THE DRAMA’S STAK. GRLWALD IS AN TOLERANT -AGAST-THEM TYRANT AND THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE STS HIS POLIL ASCENSN OBV NAZI TERMS, REPLETE WH GERMANY’S MISTRY OF MAGIC NSPIRG TO MAKE HIM A NDIDATE THE ELECTN FOR LEAR OF THE WIZARDG WORLD. HOW GRLWALD MIGHT RENCILE HIS HLER ASPIRATNS AND HIS HOMOSEXUALY, HOWEVER, IS NEVER PROPERLY ADDRSED—NOR IS JEWISH JAB’S HORROR OVER THIS TURN OF EVENTS—JT AS DUMBLEDORE’S ORIGAL KSHIP WH GRLWALD (AND HIS E) IS SKIMMED OVER LT ANYONE PAY TOO CLOSE ATTENTN TO S UNBELIEVABILY. YAT DISTRACTS DIENC OM FOCG ON FAR-FETCHED AND/OR ILLOGIL ELEMENTS WH LOTS OF CGI RAZZLE-DAZZLE. MUCH OF THAT IS IMPRSIVELY MOUNTED, ALBE A NOW-FAIAR MANNER; THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY TIM ONE N SEE MEN AND WOMEN PRODUCE WONRS VIA THEIR WANDS BEFORE ALL BE OLD HAT. “YAT DISTRACTS DIENC OM FOCG ON FAR-FETCHED AND/OR ILLOGIL ELEMENTS WH LOTS OF CGI RAZZLE-DAZZLE. MUCH OF THAT IS IMPRSIVELY MOUNTED, ALBE A NOW-FAIAR MANNER; THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY TIM ONE N SEE MEN AND WOMEN PRODUCE WONRS VIA THEIR WANDS BEFORE ALL BE OLD HAT.” A FUNDAMENTAL SHORTG OF THE ENTIRE FANTASTIC BEASTS ANCHISE IS THAT, UNLIKE THE HARRY POTTER SAGA, NEWT’S RELATNSHIP TO THE GRANR BATTLE AGAST GRLWALD IS TANGENTIAL; STEAD OF HAVG A PERSONAL NNECTN TO THE FIGHT (AS HARRY DID WH VOLMORT), HE’S SIMPLY A NICE GUY SWEPT UP A LARGER SOCPOLIL STORM. REDMAYNE NTU TO DO HIS UAL TWCHY-WEIRDO ROUTE, BUT HE FEELS LS CENTRAL TO THE STORY THAN EVER BEFORE, SCE ROWLG MAK HIM AND HIS HORT BLD PAWNS OF DUMBLEDORE, WHO’S ALSO NOT MUCH OF A CHARISMATIC PRENCE, THIS SPE ROWLG GIVG HIM SOME ADDNAL FAY-TRAGEDY BAGGAGE AND LAW EMBODYG HIM WH THE RIGHT MIXTURE OF NOBILY, POSURE, AND SOUL. THE FILM’S TLE NOTWHSTANDG, DUMBLEDORE IS A LIKABLE PUPPET MASTER WHO’S NOT VERY ENIGMATIC, CLUDG WHEN TO HIS PREFERENCE FOR MEN—A TOPIC THAT HE DISCS WH THE SUALNS OF SOMEONE WHO DON’T THK HE’S SAYG ANYTHG SURPRISG. MADS MIKKELSEN AS GELLERT GRLWALD FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORECOURTY OF WARNER BROS. PICTUR TRADG DEPP’S ORNATE HAIR AND STUMG FOR A MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD SU-AND-TIE STYLE, MIKKELSEN IS THE FT ASPECT OF THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE. YET HE’S NIED AN OPPORTUNY TO TLY ENLIVEN THIS TALE, WHICH PREFERS TO WASTE TIME ON GRLWALD’S MN—AND SUPPOSED WEAPON OF DUMBLEDORE STCTN—CRENCE BAREBONE (EZRA MILLER), A PETULANT BORE WHO, LIKE MOST EVERYONE ELSE, ACROSS AS A NARRATIVE VICE MASQUERADG AS A FLH-AND-BLOOD PERSON. THE FACT THAT ONE N UNRSTAND WHAT’S GOG ON OM MOMENT TO MOMENT IS, LIGHT OF THE CRIM OF GRLWALD’S HEAD-SPNG PLITNS, A SMALL RELIEF. AND YAT’ STEWARDSHIP REMAS EFFICIENT, FULL OF LUCIDLY IMAGATIVE SET PIEC THAT NEVER QUE OVERWHELM THE MATERIAL’S EMOTNS. UNFORTUNATELY, THIS TENTPOLE’S CLOCKWORK MANVERS ARE SO ROTE THAT THERE’S NO SPENSE DURG S TIM OF GREAT PERIL, AND NO ELATN OVER S TRIUMPHS. IT’S MERELY MORE OF THE SAME SPECTACLE THAT ROWLG HAS BEEN PEDDLG FOR S, RRIED OUT WH REASONABLE PANACHE BUT GENERATG DIMISHG-RETURNS EXCEMENT. NICK SCHAGER

Rowlg's rponse to "is Dumbledore gay?