Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

The fate of one will change the future of all.

The sequel picks up from the end of “Where to Find Them,” where the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald was captured by MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America), with the help of Newt Scamander. However, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escaped custody and has set about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards up to rule over all non-magical beings. In an effort to thwart Grindelwald’s plans, Albus Dumbledore enlists his former student Newt Scamander. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world. This film is releasing in 2D, 3D, 3D IMAX and 4DX. This is the 2D version.

134 minutes.
No persons under 13 (Violence, Horror).
Adventure, Family, Fantasy.

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Credits

Cast	Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Jude Law, Johnny Depp, Zoë Kravitz, Carmen Ejogo
Director	David Yates
Screenplay	J.K. Rowling
Music	James Newton Howard
Cinematography	Philippe Rousselot
Editing	Mark Day
Sound formats	DTS, Dolby Atmos, 12-Track Digital Sound
Soundtrack	Available
SA distributor	Empire Entertainment
Made in	2018
Produced by	Heyday Films, Warner Bros.

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Fantasy
Language	None
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	The film contains frequent moderate impact violence with no bloodletting that is fantastical at times. Two scenes of dead bodies are depicted as well as “magical” attacks causing harm.
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments	Contains scenes of horror. The film contains complex and mature fantastical themes of a fictional world inhabited by secretive witches and wizards, a battle between good and evil, a quest of hindering evil from prevailing, a lust for power, a search for truth and a painful history. The dark and magical themes are also accompanied by frightening fictional creatures that often roar or growl quite loudly and bare their fangs which is emphasized by the film theatre format.
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USA MPAA rating

PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned	Rated PG-13 for some sequences of fantasy action
Runtime	134
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 12 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
24.com Bronwyn McKay Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is yet another magical masterpiece in the wizarding world that fans, and even sceptics, will be enchanted by.	10
Metacritic.com 48 critics	10
Rottentomatoes critics 268 critics	11
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald has glimmers of the magic familiar to Harry Potter fans, but the story's spell isn’t as strong as earlier installments.	8
CommonSenseMedia Sandie Angulo Chen Intense, over-full sequel has lots of wizarding violence.	10
What the People say
Metacritic.com users 414 users	12
Rottentomatoes users 11237 users	13
IMDB 87644 Netizens	14
The Movie DB Community	14
Average .. 57%	11