REVIEW BY: TELMO ANTUNES

 I went to the special screening event for fans of "Fantastic Beasts, The Crimes of Grindelwald" on November the 13th and it was one of the best things I've ever done! I am a "Potterhead" and "Beasthead" and that explains the excitement!

 The film soon begins to introduce the prison escape of Grindelwald (Johnny Depp), a long and difficult sequence of follow-up for some, after this sequence, finally we have the clouds coming in to present the antecipated logo of the film, that's where the story really starts.

 I do not want you to feel filled with spoilers, because it is a movie that is worth seeing, I consider it myself, a must watch! If for many, including me, the first film was too long and kinda tedious, then this movie comes to break this paradigm about the fantastic beasts world. Lots of magic. Lots of action. Too much plot. Many connections to the magical world of Harry Potter that we love so much.

 The arrival at Hogwarts is divine to any fan! The music in the air, the castle and the movie time they gave to Hogwarts was very satisfying. Not to mention the soundtrack that is much more intense and similar to the past franchise. Well done, bravíssimo! That's what I say to this movie!

 The story is too long to tell in a single film and this is noticed before we go to the break (in movie theaters) so we can expect much more from this story that begins in Paris, ends in Austria and there are already rumors of continue in Brazil! One thing that really confused me was the pseudo-relation to the Titanic that they did as a flashback to explain Leta's story (Zoë Kravitz) when she killed her brother. Was it the Titanic they made reference to or was it any other ship that sank before the twenties? The Titanic sank in 1912, it may well be him the referred to ... but anyway ... Leta died at the end of the movie, and her last words were "I love you" to her fiancé Theseus (Callum Turner) or was it for the future brother-in-law Newt (Eddie Redmayne)? I think we already know the answer! And the most shocking thing was discovering that Credence (Ezra Miller) is actually a Dumbledore !!!!!! A LIE? SHOCKING RIGHT?

 We have appearances of Nicolas Flamel in the film and Jude Law does Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, I never get tired of saying his entire name when I was younger and we also have as a gift, Professor McGonagall. We get to know Nagini in a human form, a role played by Claudia Kim, who is in a discreet relationship with Credence and Queenie (Alison Sudol) shifts to the dark side. Are you going to stay there Queenie? We have to wait to find out!

 The film has a lot of quality and I do not understand the negative criticism it has received. I give it 5/5 stars and you? By the way, JK we need one of the Fantastic Beasts movie in Portugal!