Instead of building the plot around a tedious pursuit peppered with cutesy digital monsters - a misstep in the first two “Fantastic Beasts” films - the returning director David Yates and the screenwriters, J.K. ![]() It’s a pointed movie from tip to barbed tail. An alternate subtitle could be “Totalitarianism for Tykes.” The deadly stakes are crystal-ball clear. A chunk of the story is set in 1930s Berlin. ![]() ![]() In this third installment in the “Fantastic Beasts” franchise (itself a prequel series to the original “Harry Potter” stories), cuddly critters have mostly been swapped out for darker creatures: Here, scorpionesque freaks guard a prison where activists are tortured (or worse). Like so much children’s entertainment these days, “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” is a political primer sprinkled in magic dust.
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