Honest Trailers Commentary - Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

The writers of Honest Trailers talk Harry Potter, JK Rowling, and more in this Honest Trailers Commentary for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
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Honest Trailers Commentary - Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Hosted by Joe Starr, Dan Murrell, & Danielle Radford
Produced by Max Dionne
Tech Director: Josh "JTE" Tapia
Assistant Editor: Emin Bassavand

[@fandomentertainment]

Can J.K. Rowling save the Fantastic Beasts storyline? POOL RULES One: Speak up and join the conversation- we encourage respectful debate. Two: Respect your community- racism, misogyny, homophobia and hate speech aren’t tolerated. Three: Don’t go looking for fights. Four: “Be nice.” - Dalton from Roadhouse

[@kaigraw4440]

They should let Steve Kloves write the screenplays for the next three movies. JK Rowling might be a great book writer but she is just a terrible screenwriter.

[@dylangoodfellow4778]

She does not need too

[@dylangoodfellow4778]

Will you review the extended cut

[@jonathanortega753]

😒 I don't know

[@spideyfan1990]

I don’t think she can. It’s ironic, somebody who made such magic, wrote two stories that have so little magic to them.

[@TimenSpaceGaming]

"I just want the beasts, and I want to know where to find them!"-Danielle lololol

[@goodial]

I'm gonna get hate for this but I never watched a Harry Potter movie and never read the book. Idk, just never caught my interest. But a fun little movie about trying to catch some fantastic beasts sounded real fun to me! but then there's an evil Dark wizard and some child abuse in the first one and even less cool and fun stuff in the second one?!! I mean come on!!!

[@heidiwills4259]

Me too, Danielle.

[@Adrian-zd4cs]

So glad to be seeing more of her

[@loretta5653]

Same.

[@me45116]

I wish Spencer was here for this one, how dare he take time to be with his new born kid

[@raidenxthunder8151]

Or bring the kid on to write for the trailer and join the commentaries. I like the addition of Danielle too though.

[@AshKillem]

Thank you I was wondering where he was

[@kessenichp]

"Fantastic Beasts: We'll get to them Later" would have been a great title for this at the end! Great off the cuff name Danielle!

[@lcd130]

Patrick Kessenich I laughed so hard at this

[@livebreezybreatheasy]

She’s fantastic

[@stephaniecuevas8451]

The fact that Spencer, who is on paternity leave, actually contributed to this honest trailer, tells you all you need to know about how terrible this film was and makes me love and respect him all the more. You guys are amazing.

[@sickleweed3270]

Just hearing about how much he hated the movie makes me wish they held off until he came back so that we could hear him rant about it. I don't think I've ever seen a Spencer rant. Would love to.

[@JUTUUBFAN]

@@sickleweed3270 Check out the Honest Trailer Commentary for Wonder Woman, you won't be disappointed

[@sickleweed3270]

@@JUTUUBFAN Omg I totally missed that one! Thanks! Will do!

[@patrickpitargue1569]

@@JUTUUBFAN time stamp of wonder woman spencer rant

[@mercedesmercado4231]

Sickle Weed Not that it matters but the Honest Trailer commentary for The Emoji Movie has some great Spencer Rants. It’s hilarious.

[@FallOutWookie]

I just picture Spencer, finally getting to the point where the baby’s sleeping for 3 full hours, and instead of getting some sleep himself, he whips out his laptop and starts furiously typing his bit for honest trailers.

[@ronidee85]

"I'll even take your wizard hate crimes if you can give them to me in a narrative that makes sense." You and me both, Joe.

[@Psychoclaw]

"I just want the beasts! And I want to know where to find them!" 😂 God, I love Danielle

[@Stradivarius6288]

Was "The Crimes of J.K. Rowling" too on-the-nose for an alternate title?

[@brentage5000]

I was kinda hoping for "Fantastic Beasts: JK, you guys!"

[@chrisprescher5201]

I really liked Danielle's "fantastic beasts and we'll get to them later"

[@stupled]

they should hire you

[@marvelfanatic12]

“I need to eat some chocolate frogs after that dementor of a film” 😂😂

[@daniellepalazzolo8960]

Spencer emerging from paternity leave to rip apart this movie is just too funny

[@Dave_L913]

Danielle (who is charming as hell): "Fantastic Beasts and I'll Get to Them Later" ..."Maybe they thought this was magic Chinatown" LOL

[@rsrocha1984]

Luna actually married a great grandchild of Scamander

[@mellalena]

Yes, Rolf Scamander

[@IronMaiden1164]

Went looking for this post

[@EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV]

Luna rocks, her blunt honesty makes the books extra awesome, but she's a Ravenclaw dude, not a puff :)

[@sydneyaparker]

I screamed this.

[@chevon1920]

Exactly and neville married hannah abbot. I have no clue why the movie made them seem like they were in love, 🙄.

[@sony8591]

Shout-out to Spencer for taking time to speak on behalf of the hardcore fans. I wish we could see him talk more but then I'm happy that he found a life where he can forget this pain of a movie.

[@adamten1192]

Luna marries Newts grandson, Rolf Scamander. Neville marries Hannah Abbott

[@tacobowler]

Adam Ten came here to say this. I’ll boost it with a like and a comment.

[@alishashah842]

Hannah works in Hogsmede right ?

[@joseanemaria]

How could they miss that?

[@SJPace1776]

Yep. I actually liked the characters that don't marry their Hogwarts sweetheart. It is more realistic to me that they'd meet their spouse in their 20s or 30s.

[@carlrood4457]

@@SJPace1776 Normally, yes. However, unless they marry considerably out of their age bracket or move out of the country, they all went to the same school. Even if they didn't hook up in high school, they'd probably have met in passing there. This is especially true of Harry's classmates as it's been implied the First Wizarding War resulted in a severely reduced class size.

[@brianahicks4805]

Ayyyyyy Danielle! I miss Spencer but I REALLY love the magical little surprise of seeing some of y’all outside of your normally scheduled slots. Thanks for the Solange reference because I said that in the theater and the stranger sitting next to me said “Who?”

[@CalladaTormenta]

I guess we are the two people that Solange reference was for lol

[@scarletamazon3455]

There are at least three of us now!

[@smartypantsradford]

Y’all are making me so happy

[@chozengaming8547]

I too am aware of Solange...

[@scarletamazon3455]

@@smartypantsradford You make us happy every single time you're on the show, about time we returned the favour! You're fabulous, thank you

[@Breething11]

J.K. just needs a super potterhead as a writing assistant to remind her of the timeline and tell her when things make no sense or are just dumb. She gets fixated on things without making sure it makes sense in the wider world she's created.

[@pittland44]

Not to say that you're wrong, because you're not, but she also flat out needs someone who can tell her no, that's a bad idea don't do that. Also, there's a real simple way you have Queenie and Jacob fall in with Grindewald. You have him be the opposite of Voldemort. Instead of being about pure blood Grindewald is all about bringing in the various disenfranchised elements of the wizarding world and elevating muggleborns and mixed marriage and exposing themselves to the muggle world and all of that. Then we find out he's using people on the fringes of wizard society to gain followers against the ministry of magic, which as we saw in the books isn't always the best government and is at the best of times borderline incompetent and at the worst of times tyrannical and power hungry. Then, at the end of that fight you see some of the old families, like the Malfoys, Blacks, Lestranges and maybe even the Weasleys or Longbottoms or even Potters or whatever start to push for stricter standards and greater influence by the pure blood wizarding aristocracy. This means that Voldemort didn't come out of a vacuum, he was able to tap into antimuggle, antimuggleborn sentiment in the aftermath of Grindewalds attempted coup (This plays off the WWI and WWII analogies that Rowling sort of flirts with with the relationship between Fantastic Beasts and the main Harry Potter series, Grindewalds coup was the Wizards version of the First World War, and in their eagerness to not repeat that mistake they leave the door open for something far worse in Voldemeort which is what happened with Hitler). That adds a layer of depth to everything and even means that despite how it turned out, there was a time when the Death Eaters maybe didn't mean well, but they actually had a point. Maybe we even find out that the term Death Eater actually predates Voldemort, or there were similar societies that fell out of favor with the larger wizarding society or something (again like the Nazis there were a lot of similar small "workers" parties in the years immediately after WWI).

[@-Troodon-]

This is what george rr martin does

[@randyjax09]

It blows my mind that nobody pointed out the lore & continuity errors to her during the production of this movie.

[@alishashah842]

My main problem with the JK rewrites is that she acts like it was super obvious all long - of COURSE Nagini was a person, her name is related to mythical serpents, ugh

[@ethanwong5830]

Obviously Mcgonnogal is actually a Roman Goddess because her name is Minnerva! Obviously Ronad Weasley is secretly a weasel animagus because his name is weasley!

[@loretta5653]

I was always like eh, like writers have things in their heads and maybe it is just obvious to them, but I still can’t see Voldemort’s Snake being a poor cursed girl who had a miserable life regardless of its name being super obvious.

[@zevo9314]

unpopular opinion but i actually think the twitter rewrites are really funny, but that might be because it pisses people off, i'm not sure

[@pittland44]

She clearly doesn't understand that there needs to be a point where she stops meddling with her stories and editing her characters after the fact. It's to the point where she's actively damaging her own creation.

[@matthewheywood8532]

pittland44 she is the the female George Lucas

[@MyssBlewm]

I never got any inclination of Harry and Hermione having a "will they or won't they?" relationship in the books. It always seemed like their relationship was purely platonic and they relied on each other more as siblings. Ron always had at least one sibling in school with him and comes from a large magical family while Harry and Hermione didn't have any siblings and have Muggle families so it seemed natural for them to depend on each other more as siblings. Harry never pondered on his feelings toward Hermione and Hermione never indicated that she was ever attracted to Harry so I never understood why people felt that Harry, Ron and Hermione were in some kind of love triangle.

[@mai.2001]

MyssBlewm because Dan Radcliffe and Emma Watson had great chemistry together and the movies took advantage of that and treated Ron and Ginny badly

[@matthewheywood8532]

Moon knight exactly it isn’t in the books but in the movies Watson and Radcliffe have great chemistry which lead to that becoming a thing

[@thichinhphan4010]

@@matthewheywood8532 But I heard that the director liked Hermione and didn't like Ron so his screentime was reduced or replaced by other people. Since in the movies the events progress and the pacing were compressed unlike in the books, it was obvious some character bonding moments were cut short.

[@pokefreak004]

Luna Lovegood married Rolf Scamander, who is Newt Scamander's grandson! I find it funny that you were talking about the one HP character from the books that has a real concrete connection to the characters in the movie!

[@choicedecision]

Wait I'm surprised none of you guys talked about the twist relationship that Creedance is a Dumbledore. Like that came completely out of nowhere and why did it come about at all?

[@12jswilson]

The entire movie was a bunch of things that no one wanted or needed. I didn't need Dumbledore to have a secret brother. I didn't want a backstory on Nagini, so on and so forth.

[@oneopinion6806]

Holy shit, a Bunnicula reference!? That is a kid book deeeep cut. Tip of the hat to Joe!

[@Cobralalalala]

Joe was likely still referencing what we grew up on, but it's actually not as obscure as it was even a few years ago, with the animated series on Cartoon Network currently in its third season. :)

[@oneopinion6806]

@@Cobralalalala Though not alive as of the first novel, I did consume then as of the late '80s. I see now there were a few more recent additions. I could totally see how they could make a entry level spooky cartoon series for kids. So what was it Joe? You pulling deep or something recent? Don't disappoint me!

[@becauseimafan]

I loved Bunnicula so much, enjoyed the heck outta that reference too, Joe!! I think I knew they had a short-lived cartoon in the 80s? Like super low budget? I'll link it if I can find a clip.

[@becauseimafan]

*Found it!* I was totally right, it's so 80s, and was on ABC! Here's the whole thing: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIfUdp2FhZ12a8U

[@TheLuckyloky]

Danielle was on fire today! Also looking very beautiful in that dress😘

[@lindsaykent1053]

Digging the Hot Fuzz clip in this one. Should do a Cornetto trilogy honest trailer!

[@jbearclowater]

I remember Spencer saying once that he never wanted to do the Cornetto Trilogy because to him, those movies are untouchable.

[@woodside4life]

Or…we could go down to the Winchester

[@job3rg]

@@jbearclowater Dan also loves them.

[@job3rg]

@Lindsay Kent. Probably Aquaman.

[@lindsaykent1053]

@@job3rg yes I agree it's probably Aquaman. I'm just wishful thinking 😁

[@amandaveldorale-griffin7373]

Could not love more that Joe said "Bunicula'd." Random reference I totally appreciate.

[@aviellevenstien4517]

Danielle is a great addition to the HT team! Please keep her in the commentaries!

[@draftacriss]

I was at a q&a with David Yates and he said as soon as they gave JK a note to change something she’d re-write the whole script about it and show up with 10 different variations of the scene and progress it so much that sometimes they were like “oh JK that’s wonderful, but the one 10 drafts ago was working just fine” and ended up regressing on some of the notes cause she was too enthusiastic on the rewrites.

[@benabramowitz18]

Alright, I'm gonna go ahead and guess the next batch of Honest Trailers. 3/19 − Aquaman 3/26 − Dumbo (1941) 4/2 − Bumblebee 4/9 − Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 4/16 − Glass 4/23 − The Avengers (1998) 4/30 − Ralph Breaks the Internet 5/7 − Pokémon: The First Movie 5/14 − John Wick: Chapter 2 5/21 − Aladdin II: The Return of Jafar 5/28 − The 1954 Toho Godzilla film (and/or its 1956 American dub called _Godzilla, King of the Monsters!_ ) 6/4 − Alita: Battle Angel 6/11 − Men in Black 6/18 − Toy Story 2 6/25 − Captain Marvel (300th episode!) Let's come back here in a few months and see how many of these were right.

[@sauravsaha7465]

Don't they wait for the Blu-Ray release of the movie before making the Honest Trailer? Is Into the Spider-Verse Blu-Ray out yet?

[@_jolie_]

@@ethanjones1327 I feel bad he had to watch Dark Shadows

[@thomasedwards6641]

I think the 2/4 (day goes 1st) one could be the Shazam tv show for the movie, and for Pokemon they will do a couple of the movies and same with Aladdin they will do both the direct to dvd films and maybe some of the tv show.

[@BanaDoyabad]

U were right about Aquaman 😁

[@tacobowler]

I was really expecting “Warner Brothers and the Crimes of Rowling” for the last title screen honestly.

[@Sebanisu]

I lost it at "the greater good"! Hot fuzz is one of my favorites. Thanks for the laugh. 😆

[@pokefairy8183]

We should've expected this, Yates had the most depressing Harry Potter movies. I wish...I wish Alfonso Cuaron could direct these, Azkaban was the right mix of joy and sad

[@pokefairy8183]

@Harry O'Driscoll yeah, I agree, I just thought they weren't as nicely edited and put together as Azkaban

[@thomasedwards6641]

Have not liked a single one of Yates' HP films.

[@loretta5653]

Azkaban broke my heart and made it soar. I love all the books and everything but that was my fav movie.

[@jbearclowater]

Joe's beard hated this movie so much apparently it ran away.

[@lcd130]

Danielle was killin it today 🔥🔥🔥

[@Betta66]

As a certain wise man would say, the Aquaman Honest Trailer is gonna be tight!

[@job3rg]

Are*

[@Betta66]

Cactus Jones 2.0 Ah, is that what the pirates sound like?

[@jonfarrow9862]

It'll probably be super easy to make, barely an inconvenience

[@_jolie_]

I'm so so SO happy to see Danielle in this Honest Trailer Commentary!!!

[@quillheart877]

I agree with everything said in this video. I've been a huge Harry Potter fan for a long time, I LOVED the first Fantastic Beast movie. However, Crimes of Grindelwald made no sense and was devoid of any fun. One of the things I love about JK Rowling in her original books and on Pottermore is that she is so consistent with her world-building and timeline, but all of that fell apart in this movie.

[@TomasTDE]

Minor nitpick. Hermione did not use the same spell on her parents as the thing that erased memories in the first Fantastic Beasts. She used Obliviate which is basically the spell version of the neuralizers from MIB

[@alexmooney388]

Oof anyone remember how excited Spencer and Roth were for this movie? Seriously they were SOOOO pumped it just hurts me now.

[@mikeprovencherii4198]

More Danielle Radford content please.

[@txag007]

Glad to see Danielle on the Commentary!!!!

[@colby2763]

Great casual Bunnicula reference Joe Starr. And Dan Murrell is elevating us with references to classic literature. Well done both of you!

[@cujogoodie1]

If the next movie is this bad it needs to be called "the crimes of JK Rowling"

[@brianahicks4805]

I worked really hard to defend JK, but lordt she let me down 😩 This was my first fandom and I feel entitled to berate it mercilessly.

[@MyssBlewm]

Same. Even when WB/JKR defended Johnny Depp, not making Dumbledore officially gay in the film, the whole Nagini thing I was like, "Well, I mean...maybe the film will smooth all this over." No. It just kept getting worse.

[@sickleweed3270]

@@MyssBlewm The mirror of Erised thing pissed me off. That was like queer baiting to the nth degree. When the scene happened, I was so happy and then proud of JKR and Yates for that one minute, but then they totally turned around and shat on it by the end of the movie by basically retconning it. I felt insulted and disgusted by what they did.

[@sickleweed3270]

@@PoojaPatel-mj7pz Whatever silly thing JKR says about her characters on her Twitter doesn't count if it's not written into the canon of the books or the movies. They didn't have to show them kissing or anything that blatant even...just really all they had to do was NOT insert that stupid line at the end where they basically say that Dumbledore's most desired was to end his stupid blood pact with Grindelwald. The mirror scene as it was was PERFECT in establishing Dumbledore and Grindelwald's relationship. But they just destroyed that dynamic completely at the end of the movie. I guess she can choose to retcon things yet again in the next movie, but at this point, it's like, who cares anymore. She crapped the bed already.

[@PoojaPatel-mj7pz]

Sickle Weed Yeah this franchise has Star wars prequel stench all over it. Any bets they’re going to have a subplot on the origin of crookshanks and how Mr Lovegood’s newspaper came to be in the new movie?

[@sickleweed3270]

@@PoojaPatel-mj7pz Honestly, who knows at this point. Since JKR still has control over the next 3 movies, it's really up to what she plans to cover.

[@johanabartuskova3565]

Great commentary, great trailer, terrible movie. Though usually, the best honest trailers are for the worst movies! Love it!

[@acewingate6993]

I CAUGHT THE SOLANGE REFERENCE

[@tehBrymann]

Grindlewald is more of a wizard Stalin than Hitler. Voldemort's got the Hitler thing covered. The Swooping Evil potion (extract) that Newt uses to wipe the memories of everyone in the first movie is not the same as the Obliviate spell. Newt states it can be used for erasing bad memories when he's extracting it early in the movie. (Not done watching the video yet but it bugs me that you'd get that wrong)

[@razzle2429]

It's still silly writing because he needed to erase/obliviate the memories of all the people in New York who witnessed the magic at the end of the film. But while many people might have been scared or confused, it's likely at least a few of them would have been filled with wonder or happiness that such magic/beauty exists in the world so their memories would have been intact (and it's stupid for Newt to assume that all the muggles would only have bad memories of the event in the first place). So that means there are plenty of muggles walking around who are now fully aware that magic/wizards exist.

[@tehBrymann]

@@razzle2429 agreed. The people they showed all seemed to be a scared but there could be some Jacobs running around with partial memories. Even he forgot and only remembered subconsciously until Queenie showed up. I'd blame MACUSA for being uncharacteristically lazy to let Newt do what he did but the movie can only cover so much. It's semi-irrelevant to the plot to know if they are just keeping tabs on muggle chatter about events that were supposed to be forgotten in case the need to fully Obliviate them.

[@zoeyag487]

Rowling has seemed real quiet about the future of the Fantastic Beasts lately...I wonder why...?

[@theloopyquill9562]

As per WB she is working hard on FB3 script. maybe that's why

[@almogdov]

This movie is just.... depressing. Even my infinite love for the Harry Potter books can't save it for me.... :(

[@sickleweed3270]

It's the first time I almost fell asleep during a HP movie...twice...and wanted to walk out. I felt so sad that it was such a disappointment.

[@samsongriffin4091]

DANIELLE IS ON COMMENTARIES! YAY!!! Also, Joe referring to himself as a nine year old boy is... so accurate.

[@jbearclowater]

Danielle Radford in an HT Commentary? Yes please!

[@spideyfan1990]

“I don’t even know about Fantastic Beasts, or where one might find them”

[@AhavaMath]

Just a small note, but what was used in the first movie to erase everyone's memories was not the spell obliviate from the books. Newt used venom from one of his creatures which he talked about earlier in the movie. He actually explained then that it was for removing bad memories. That being said, it's still terrible, because it is inconsistent: not erasing memories of wizards out in the rain, erasing memories of people not out in the rain, how does the venom discriminate between which bad memories it erases, and what about the people who saw the magic and thought it was cool (not frightening)?

[@emmal2932]

Yes Danielle is here!! Love you Danielle 😘

[@michaelmandatorylastname3671]

7:35: "Bunniculaed"? God bless you, Joe. You just became my favorite nerd on the planet. Well done.

[@pegasusdrive12]

Joe is a 9 year old confirmed.

[@ieatgremlins]

Danielle in a HTC? You guys keep spoiling us :) THANK YOU!

[@paradisecity0406able]

Is the *MAGIC* of the Harry Potter Universe gone? All of this and more on Honest Trailer Commentaries, NOW!

[@TheLowBrassDude]

The Magic gathered to Wizards of the Coast.

[@Porco1984]

Yay! Danielle, this will be fun!! :D Just wanted to comment before watching the show ;)

[@joeokeeffe2083]

Loving the Dan sandwich :)

[@scarletamazon3455]

It's my favourite kind of sandwich

[@angelikussnape]

A Danwich :)

[@Adrian-zd4cs]

I am so glad I missed this in the theaters. It was on my go to list, and by fate, I'll never have to suffer through it.

[@lcd130]

I love that Spencer contributed to this 🤘🏻

[@siriusgray]

lcd130 surprise snark attack

[@goldenlightpictures6223]

Next weeks trailer was mentioned in this trailer? Oh better go watch the trailer now then brb;) Edit ok I’m back maybe aquaman? Bohemian rhapsody maybe spiderverse?( tho don’t think that was mentioned)

[@patriciapages3839]

That's exactly what I did lol! (And my guess is also Aquaman.)

[@SimonBuchanNz]

I'm hoping for Hot Fuzz, but Aquaman works too!

[@chrisxx5583]

I think Bohemian Rhapsody. Killer Queenie reference I caught

[@goldenlightpictures6223]

@@chrisxx5583 True maybe that's a good thought;)

[@benabramowitz18]

Looks like they're holding off on Spider-Verse for a while.

[@rasheduldeepon8733]

I liked the video the moment I saw the Dans!

[@Suju4]

Thanks for including Spencer! (I miss him. I wish him a good and restful time with his baby) I didn't watched the first movie, so I was shocked that to find out that Newt's brother and Leda weren't in the first movie at all. Secondly - I totally missed the fact that Grindwald could have just let the double go to prison and went along with his plan and this would change nothing. If you do cut things, leave them here. Some things are too good to be left unseen.

[@marcelldurand6878]

Love Danielle... She should be a regular on the commentaries panel 😍

[@michaelcain9324]

Eating chocolate frogs 🐸 to counteract this Dementor of a film. That should’ve been in the trailer!

[@noewil8392]

Bunnicula!!!! I understood that reference. Y’all just made my day.

[@Jadeduo]

I feel like there is much too much hate on for this. There were redeemable points to it, the creature design was on point and when the creature moments that happened were magical. I agree the Queenie twist was stupid, and the Dumbledore twist at the end I still don’t know how I feel about. I would still argue it was better than Chamber of Secrets which I hate with a firey passion.

[@toddhollen]

I definitely thought "The Greater Gooood" in the theater every time they said it.

[@Fumi007]

“Ackio spell” made me giggle. Also Danielle is awesome. Love seeing her on the show. And congrats to the new dad!

[@bvanhoek356]

As someone who doesn't give a damn about Harry Potter I think Rowling's mystery books are legit really good. Hope she keeps writing them

[@MyssBlewm]

Just finished Lethal White and it was great. Funny how she is able to portray a "will they or won't they" relationship better in her Strike books than her HP books.

[@bvanhoek356]

@@MyssBlewm Yea, most of the relationships like that in Harry Potter feel pretty childish. Which kinda makes sense, I guess, since for most of the books they were kids.

[@AntonAdelson]

OMG Danielle is HILARIOUS!!!!

[@sekharraja9679]

you suggest watching the honest trailer before the show but i like watching this straight away .

[@xengar]

Queenie's character pissed me off so much. Film one portrays her to be empathetic, resourceful, and level-headed. Film 2 overhauls that and makes her irrational, selfish, and inconsiderate with no context. She knows how bad Grindelwald is, why join him? She knows that Jacob loves her, why enchant and kidnap him to England? When Tina is in danger she quickly saves them with as much calm as possible, so why after leaving Jacob and failing to find Tina cause her to break down in the middle of the street?! She's been a Legilimens her whole life and now all of a sudden she can't seem to hold back anyone's emotions/thoughts?! WHAT!?!

[@MyssBlewm]

I didn't go to see FB2 in theatres because I heard about her character assassination. Queenie was my favorite character in FB1 too.

[@razzle2429]

It's so weird that she would put an enchantment on ANYONE because she can read minds. Even if she initially thought it was a good idea, wouldn't she be able to read Jacob's mind and be horrified at just how much the enchantment has destroyed his thoughts and personality? And wouldn't she be able to read Grindelwald's mind and realize he's full of crap and will most likely kill Jacob/other muggles.

[@SMarcey]

Im glad you went long on this one. There was alot to parse. Also loved The Golden Compass reference in the HT. :)

[@Cobralalalala]

I had paragraphs planned, but... THE GREATER GOOD!

[@bethgold2362]

Man, I love you guys. I hope to someday love my job and coworkers as much as you guys do. ;)

[@kalenzypie]

Im thankful for this trailer and commentary. Joe, you didnt enjoy the movie but you got through it for the greater good

[@artistwithouttalent]

Congratulations getting everyone watching this to go back and rewatch the honest trailer. EDIT: It's Aquaman.

[@julietrc15]

This was awesome AND YAY DANIELLE 💜

[@rinfinity930]

Hermione I think used a spell on her parents to make them forget if she existed. Newt I think used potion from one of his animals sweeping evil to make people of new york forget the day's events. Also Newt mentioned it is capable to remove ones bad memories in the 1st one

[@rahullulla352]

Yes thats right; I might be wrong but i think Newt said something like if made correctly it is capable of only removing bad memory. You can make the case that sweeping evil might have not worked correctly but luckily it did.

[@alleycatfire]

lol y'all ... talk. That's the point. We saw the trailer sans commentary and we're here now to see you spiral down dark rabbit holes and tangents of no return. No more of this "ugh - we'll be here forever- play video" malarkey.

[@spandanav22]

This is my all time favorite Honest Trailer Commentary for how much they dunk on it.

[@shawns5651]

I've never been into Harry Potter, but listening to this description of this movie sounds like Zack Snyder directed it lol. Where is the Snyder cut of Fantastic Beasts?

[@sickleweed3270]

I could have sat thru three hours of you guys talking about FB. It was good therapy for me.

[@daijishinomori9161]

I had to replay the trailer's intro 3+ times just to experience Spenny's escalating wrath with the franchise. And it's marvelous.

[@orieldeleon9169]

The Crime was the movie itself 😲😱 well played JK, well played.

[@21pilotstillidie58]

Fantastic Beasts and How to Destroy a Franchise

[@gellertgrindelwald5891]

Fantastic beasts and please stop moaning

[@21pilotstillidie58]

@@gellertgrindelwald5891 go buy another scarf Gellert. Oh and i know your wizard hitler and everything. Still though how could you let Johnny Depp play you. A no talent hack that beats his wife. I mean he does the same thing in every role. Even wizard hitler should be annoyed with the casting

[@gellertgrindelwald5891]

21pilots tillidie he was just proven innocent..Amber Heard used metoo to destroy Johnny Depps career. Have some research

[@21pilotstillidie58]

@@gellertgrindelwald5891 what? He was not just proven innocent dummy. He filed a defamation lawsuit against her. In what world does that make him innocent? Instead of telling me to do research you should follow your own advice. As at this point you're the one that is just making shit up. Also even putting aside his domestic abuse. He is still a wannabe rock star that can't act. He hasn't had a decent acting role in years and he is beyond terrible in Fantastic Beasts. If you can't admit that then you must be Doug Stanhope.

[@kstepko]

I sort of hate seeing comments that say, “You know who I wish was on this video? Someone who isn’t!” but ... watching some old Honest Trailer commentaries the other day made me realize how much I love Spencer! Glad he’ll be back in a few weeks.

[@iheardyourprayer2599]

Joe! Ive missed yu on sju hope your day is great

[@TheRedComyn]

"...drain them of all joy and fun and laughter".... and wizard robes! Considering that wizards don't know how to dress like Muggles, this is the best dressed and tweedy (and dreary) group of wizards. #SlytherinPride

[@ShaneAddinall]

Did I just hear a Bunnicula reference!?!?! Love it Joe! 😎👍

[@bretthunter2317]

Hoot Hoot! I love this video. I just keep watching it.

[@gingernovato4623]

I love your dress, Danielle! And, Joe, super props for using Bunicula!

[@Molson-xg9hs]

Danielle on commentary? Oh happy day! And I love that not even paternity leave could keep Spencer from dunking on this.

[@staceysales814]

Obliviate isnt the same spell as what happend to him in the rain.

[@sofiekaterina]

Stacey Sales so glad someone pointed this out.

[@victoriav8304]

they should’ve casted a young dumbledore and a young grindelwald and tell their story for 3 movies max. would’ve been very interesting since dumbledores past raised a lot of questions in the book. but no they abused the character of newt scarmander who’s completely unnecessary for their story and put in some CGI monsters so the title makes sense and they could stretch it out for 5 movies.

[@razzle2429]

Yeah, the Grindelwald story should have had Dumbledore as the protagonist since Dumbledore has the most investment in Grindelwald's story and we (as the audience) have the most investment in Dumbledore since we got to know him over the span of the Harry Potter books/movies. There's no reason Newt should even be a part of any of this. He seems like the sort of guy who'd be halfway across the world trying to rescue magical creatures from a cruel wizard zoo, helping a town that is being attacked by a dragon without having to harm/kill it, or discovering new species of creatures in the deepest darkest African jungles.

[@nrolofson]

Keep Danielle after Spencer returns. She's great!

[@micken]

Bunnicula... now that's a name I've not heard for a long, long time.

[@haggus71]

The one bad thing about Marvel is, they did their job so good in creating a cinematic universe, that EVERYONE thinks they can do it; and so far, everyone else has failed. Whatever they are paying Kevin Feige, they need to double it. Just because a series was good, doesn't mean you need to then go and try to milk every aspect of it for a movie. If you do, people see that, and you will fail.