In fact, most of them are briefly shown and then forgotten about until the end of the movie. It's a story populated by husks of human beings, and none of them are even remotely relatable or understandable. Nobody learns anything, nobody does anything special, nobody even IS anything. You'll watch it and love it anyway.' Lastly, this movie has ZERO character development.

That was JK Rowling saying to her stupid mob of gullible fans, 'Screw you. The writing is so insultingly idiotic that at one point in the film, when a character questions a plot point that doesn't make any sense, Dumbledore actually says 'Let's call it fate,' ignoring the question entirely. It's a story in which not a single plot point can withstand the slightest amount of logical scrutiny. They rely on people acting in ways that are so unfathomably stupid and are not in line with who they were shown to be earlier in these three movies. They rely on characters knowing things that they couldn't possibly have known. In fact, most of the things that happen in the movie don't make any sense. Even though the magic is creative, it's so inconsistent and so confusing in how it works that it's frustrating to watch rather than awe-inspiring. It's a two and a half hour movie that should be an hour long. The story just consist of characters wandering around and either chilling in the background or completing a task that has absolutely no bearing on the main conflict. 90% of the characters could be missing from the story, or replaced with planks of wood, and not a single thing of note would change. Just like the last movie, this has a screenplay that desperately tries to find reasons to keep these characters in the story, and it fails spectacularly. In fact, the best thing I can say about this 'film' is that you can go to the bathroom during it without worrying about missing something there's hardly anything important to miss. It's sometimes funny and often creative, and it's an improvement over its predecessor by default, simply because rather than only 5% of the plot being consequential, about 30% of the plot is consequential.

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