I have many mixed feelings about the second movie (plot wise and lore wise bc I’m the biggest HP nerd) and the entire Johnny Depp situation but honestly? Mads Mikkelsen looks really good as Grindelwald. And I agree with you guys in that Eddie Redmane is EXCELLENT in these movies…so at this point I’m pretty much just watching it for his Newt Scamander and for Mads. And for the shot of serotonin that is Jude Law Dumbledore saying “three points to Hufflepuff” gives me as a Hufflepuff

If they were going to replace Johnny Depp with anyone Mads Mikkelsen was definitely a fantastic choice.

“There was a good story there… somewhere.” 😹

Love the shirts representing my two favorite houses from Harry Potter, Gryffindor and Sugarfire!

I didn’t know I needed a “Dance like a crab” song in my life but I’m quite grateful for it

Mads Mikkelsen has played the non-villian character before in movies that are produced in Denmark his native country. If you love his acting consider looking into his film resume there. In the US we know him for being the bad guy but he can play the honest man. He did play the loving father role in Rogue One as Galen Erso as well.

I believe that the first movie was character development, we met Newt, Jacob, Tina and Queenie. We met the main villain, Grindelwald. The second we realized that Newt was working for Dumbledore because he can't face Grindelwald. The third should be going more into what happened between those two.

My friend (a hufflepuff): it's nice to see my house getting the respect it deserves!" Me (a ravenclaw): yeah, good for you. 😑

Secrets secrets everywhere Secrets secrets to be laid bare Through scorpion’s lair and magic flair Our quintet will unveil Albus and Gellert’s blood pact swear

There's actually a theory that the muggle character is actually a descendant of Helga Hufflepuff, which is why he is so important.

I love the apparent growth/changes from many characters. I rate this trailer 1 out of 1 URGENT visits to Madam Pomfrey for the burn/clever observation to the entire house of Hufflepuff, compliments of Jay!! That got a good belly laugh out of me!

Despite all the hate these movies have gotten, I think they’re really wonderful and I still love them.

I dunno, I think the movies have been terrific so far. It was originally said that the story would be split into 5 movies, describing the events from basically 39 to 45. The first two movies were used as world building / set up with their own plots to try be their own thing but ultimately they showed Grindelwalds manipulation, motivation and power and what he was willing to do to achieve his goals quite well, leaving 3 more movies to focus more on the war while the whole credence / dumbledore plotline will run parallel. That's how I've been seeing it, and maybe that's why I'm enjoying it.

Fantastic Beasts should've been a one-off standalone about Redmayne's Scamander and the creatures. Then there should've just been an entirely separate trilogy about the Dumbledore vs Grindelwald war. These two storylines don't work together at all, they're tonal/thematic opposites, they should be separate stories.

I'm not sure what this movie is about at this point, but man they should have just cast Madds as Grindelwald in the first place.

I would love if this series were divided in two, one being Newt traveling the world as an indiana jones but instead of treasures, find fantastic beast and another about Grindelwald's magical war. Because as it is, everything feels limited. I want to see how the Muggles prepare for war, I want to see if that "fear" of Grindelwald is true (On how the Muggle are advancing militarily leaving the wizards behind) or if the Voldemort theory that Muggles are always behind is true. They are two supremacists with two opposite motivations, we have never seen the Muggle perspective in these conflicts. Imagine what this series would be like if it left Newt behind and focused on that concept. If it shows us how the ministry has a police or military force to counter the wizards. How many bullets can a protego resist before breaking? Can a wizards withstand a shrapnel blast from a grenade? Apparition can deal damage to a wizard when someone grabs onto it or throws an object at the wizard (Seen with Ron and Dobby), does this imply that it is useless against muggle fire? If a dagger can hit an elf in the middle of Apparition, what would a bullet do? These questions is what I was dying to see, under the premise of a Wizard-Muggle war. Imagine if the muggle minister was also a muggle supremacist, who they consider that the wizard has always lost against them, that they always end up hiding... But no ... Let's give the lead to the Magizoologist, not to his brother, the veteran wizard of a muggle war, of course, let's give the only Muggle in history the role of comic relief and a wand... This seriously must have been two different sagas.

Jay's right; Jacob Kowolski is the best part of Fantstic Beast

I was watching another reaction but this popped up and had to watch this first

I am a fellow Hufflepuff too and hey one really cool thing we can say is no one has ever broken into our common room. Gryffindor, Slytherin and Ravenclaw all had their common room's broken into in the Harry Potter books while ours didn't.

Huh, looks like Dumbledore might actually get to do something for once in a trilogy that's been ostensibly about him. BTW, Mikkelsen's primarily known for rom-coms back in Denmark. He's very much got a Hugh Laurie thing going on.

Bro, Jay, that dance like a crab song slapped…

I haven't seen any of the Fantastic Beasts movies and have no interest in this movie. I'm still liking and commenting for the algorithm.

It really feels like Newt's presence here only makes this whole thing... shallow. Dumbledore vs Grindelwald has so much potential for a wizarding spy/war movie series that - if written right - can preserve it's "magical" core. Instead, we have two powerful characters crashing together that kind of aren't important because look, here's the guy with the magical creatures! How cool and nostalgic is that?

Mads Mickelsen in the Hallmark Christmas Special, "Satan Clause." The Devil comes to earth for an HR mandated vacation in the guise of the suave but crusty billionaire who meets Katherine Heigl who runs the homeless shelter. Laughs, love, redemption and Satan takes her back to the pit where they overhaul it into a kinder gentler warm and fuzzy re-education retreat.

5:58 “We are both puffs” 🦡 ( while wearing a Gryffindor shirt 🦁)

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Secrets, secrets, are no fun. Secrets, secrets, hurt someone.

“There was a good movie in there….. somewhere” preach!!!! Lmao

This film is more focused because Steve Kloves the original screenwriter is back! He knows what he's doing, and with this trailer I am cautiously optimistic that they've made course corrections enough to hopefully make it to all 5 of the planned films! 🙏🦀

We need some "Crab Rave" in this movie for that scene

mads mikkelsen is gonna carry this movie

Dance like a crab dance killed me. I'm dead now. 🤣🤣🤣

Why are you guys so confused? You’re saying they haven’t focused on Grindelwald and that’s been the predominant focus of the past two movies, especially the second one.

Y’all see that scene where Jacob is fighting his wand? I think what happens with the wand is that he’s got all the random “this wand has not chosen this wizard” effects we saw in the sorcerers stone. It’s just randomly casting spells, but with the same randomness of hitting the skip button on a playlist that is on shuffle. Sure there’s a limited number of things it could do, but which one it’s gonna do is anybody’s guess…. Oh! It’s the Wabbajack effect!

The Crimes of Grindelwald played by Johnny Depp. He was recast by Mads Mikkelsen

First thing to hit my brain's eye: are you two trying to camouflage yourselves amongst the movie theater chair background?

Im just pointing out that the FB movies dont take place during WWII..... the movies take place during 1926-1927 (for 1 and 2) which is interesting considering that Voldemort was born Dec 31, 1926 so I personally am just hoping that maybe there's a time jump between FB3 and FB4 (like maybe in FB4 the "beast(s)" in it is the basilisk from the chamber of secrets so we can see hagrid and tom at school and all that jazz)

IMO, the best part of these Fantastic Beasts movies is Dan Fogler as Jacob Kowalski. I'd rather watch a fish out of water story of him interacting with witches and wizards than whatever diabolical plot Grindelwald has

I’m a Hufflepuff!🦡

I'm gonna rate this as 1 Colin Farrel as Grindlewald In Disguise out of 1 Johnny Depp as Grindlewald + 1 Mads Mikkelson as Grindlewald for a total of 3 out of 1 Grindlewalds.

Movie 2 was like a sausage they tried to squanch too much into. There was no way it was gonna cook evenly.

So, when are we getting the Jay album in the merch store? Dance Like A Crab... The Boba Fett Song... the hits keep on coming!

Jay (about Kowalski): He's the best part of these movies. Me: YES!! YOU ARE CORRECT SIR! Edit: Also, I just KNEW you guys were Hufflepuffs, before you even said that! :D

I agree there's a great story buried in these films. This trailer teases it better. But it doesn't convince me that they are going to get around to telling it to me.

Mads Mikkelsen also played the Misunderstood villain in the video game; Death Stranding, starring Norman Reedus. By the end; you actually sympathize with him. He was really good!

If you're going to dance like a crab, then why not Zoidberg?

Jay: He's the best part of these movies. Says the guy the part was pretty much modeled after 😜💚🍑

As I already said in the comments of GetJaby: the Fantastic Beast movies are highly entertaining but also highly forgettable. I know I had fun with them but I can only remember random scenes and almost no names or story points. So, I can't blame Adam for not even remembering what the last movie was called. :D

Jude Law to the Dumbledore from Harry Potter movies… yup teaching will do that to you. 😏

Soo, nobody talking about Johnny Depp getting replaced in the movie??

I'm a peach 🍑 & a Ravenclaw 🦅

You could have told me this was the 4th movie in the series, and I never would have questioned it.

Everyone comes up Hufflepuff the first time they take the quiz, especially when they try to skew the answers towards Ravenclaw.

I'm so happy that Newt's brother get to have more screen time.

Jay please put out a album or skit of all the witty songs you come up with! Love them :)

Dumbledore? More like Dumble-Damn! :))

1. Love your reactions! 2. Not an expert on any of this, just my outside opinion. Haven't even read the books, only saw the movies. 3. Not going to watch this movie after the whole Johnny Depp thing. I think it is a great opportunity for the replacement guy, but Johnny Depp was just so captivating in this role, even in just trailers alone. This guy doesn't give me the same kind of evil feelings as Johnny did. 4. I hope they address the Grindelwald change in the movie. If they address in the movie Grindelwalds' face change by saying something like "I've had to change my face to hide from the International Wizarding Police" or something, that's fine. As long as they address the change. 5. People keep saying "Johnny was only in 2 movies, so we can adjust to the change the same way we did with Dumbledore in HP" and those are 2 different changes. You honestly don't really notice the Dumbledore change in HP because they made the character look the same and they could argue he matured a little between the 2nd and 3rd movie. Here they look totally different, but like i said before, if they address the change in the movie, I think that will be enough for now. 6. I think people are upset with them not focusing on Grindelwalds' war for the first 2 movie but forget that it was the same way with Voldemort in HP. From my memory, they did the same thing where they slowly introduced him and we learned more about him gradually through each movie until Goblet of Fire and that's where things really started going down. I think they're doing the same thing in these movies so we are just gonna have to wait and see.

Adam is Ravenclaw with Hufflepuff rising,...or was that Sta Puff?

And yes that was the first time hufflepuff was awarded points in the movies

You described Scoop starring Scarlet Johansson and Hugh Jackman. Unfortunately, it's a Woody Allen movie lol.

You should absolutely watch Mads Mikkelson's film, Another Round, to see another kind of character from him.

“3 points to Hufflepuff” that quote is probably the most respect Hufflepuff has ever gotten

I'm a Hufflepuff as well. I wonder how many Puffs are in the community?

The Wikipedia would say: the one who would not be named! And we would have said "vormort"!

In this movie we learn about Dumbledore's secret life

"I think you just described 'You'..." Laura Ingram moment....

Fantastic Beasts is absolutely amazing. As someone who cares VERY deeply about animal rights and preserving nature, it is one of my top favorite movies. It is definitely on my list of films that I can rewatch over and over again. The second one.....not so much. I have a hearing problem and could only understand every other word when we saw it in the theater. But from what I could figure out was happening, I did not enjoy it. That movie was a huge letdown. Throw in someone with the last name that is similar to the word "bowling" and the actor who Mads Mikkelson replaced, I HAVE VERY MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT THIS MOVIE. I have been a Potterhead for TWENTY YEARS but I can't decide if I"m seeing this or not. This movie is going to give me an ulcer.

So, when does the Dance like a crab song get the full release? 😀

The core is great, compelling and interesting. But if I watch Fantastic Beasts, I want to see fantastic beasts instead of them just being mcguffins like a portkey would be. And the first one did this really well. Film 1 just set up a different thing than film 2 became. And there's so much fluff I don't need, what is there is already compelling enough. That being said, I'm sure Kowalski getting to see Hogwards like we did back in the day together with Harry, will be super delightful. However they'll explain it cause it has been pretty established that Muggles can't do magic even if they tried for a long time.

I agree with Jay. Fogler should have gotten an Oscar Nomination for FB1.

9:45 Hey! Mads Mikkelsen was a good guys na dsomehwhat a hero in Rogue One! But yeah, I'd love to see him as a genuine good protagonist at least once.

I think Jacob was given the Elder wand because they could trust him to hold it (and protect it) and yet not use it (since he’s a Muggle).

Not so cynical, Adam. I don't think J.K. spent half her life making everything INTRICATELY connected and consistent in Harry Potter to now go like, "Fuck it, he's got another sibling I never mentioned before and I'm not even going to try to hide the inconsistency" - I'm sure there's more to this. After the last movie came out, she tweeted something like "not everything is as it seems with this story" and with five movies, I would suspend judgement until at least this movie, maybe the next. I couldn't be more hyped - unless Depp came back

Without JD I think no one will go to the movie for Grindelwald, it will be a movie with no main villain.

I'm a slytherin 100% tooke the test three times, three times the green snake

Omg! You guys are hufflepuff like me!!!!! Yay! That would explain why I love you all. I still want Johnny Depp as Grindelwald......😐. I am excited but cautious also I want to see Leta Lestrange.... I am here for Jay's jingles 😂🤣 "Dance like crab!"

Over the last 2 weekends I've watched all the HP films at the cinema, so it's all very fresh, and the main thing for me is that I really cared about all the characters, but with the Fantastic Beasts characters, I can't even remember their names (even though I quite enjoyed the films). Also, I think the fact that the screenplay so far has been written by JK Rowling isn't in it's favour - with the original HP films, her source material was edited down to remove unnecessary detail to make the films so good... I feel with the first 2 of this series they've felt like they're overblown with excessive story, but they've now brought in Steve Kloves who wrote nearly all the HP films as co-writer. Seeing Hogwarts again though makes me want to continue with it, because that familiarity is drawing me in!

Regarding Mads Mikkelsen: Check out the danish movie "Shake it" (danish title : "en kort en lang") from 2001... he doesn't play a single father of 2, but he does play a love interest and is quite a lot softer than in any of his newer movies 😊 EDIT: he's not a serial killer though... sorry... 🤣

Why do I really feel this should be called ‘The Journey to Find Dumbledore a Pet’. Fawkes anyone?

Dance like a crab. Is a hit. You should do a whole song of it. Or a T-shirt definitely. Mmm Fix it?

This was an info dump to say the least 😂 that said I’m sold

The thing that was throwing me off about Grindlewald-Depp was doing a great acting job; they just gave him such an over-the-top, doofy look. You're like "Really? This is what they're going for? The head that Judge Doom's mask was based on?"

HUFFLEPUFFS UNITE!!

Omg. OMG!!! News!!! At least I think it’s news… Apparently Kevin Feige confirmed that THERE IS FOOTAGE of Luis from Antman recapping the events of the MCU… I’m not sure how excited I should be…

Whew, at 1st I thought you were throwin' shade at us Hufflepuffs!

Well Done Gryffindor!!🥳

Muggles 👏 Can’t 👏 Use 👏 Wands

Was Mads wielding the Elder wand? It had the correct shape right down to the round spots on the wands spine.

Coming to a cinema near you... The HP x Marvel crossover you've been waiting for... Dumbledore vs That Guy From Dr Strange who's name nobody can remember :)

Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore has a brother Aberforth and a sister Arianna. I’ve heard or red it somewhere that Credence Bareboneis his nephew from his sister

I still think I want to watch it see it because I mean when Johnny Depp left it was basically mutual and he already finished what I guess they want him to film so he's still going to be in the move movie just not all of it

I'm always excited to see Mads Mikkelsen in any movie because he is my favorite actor. Even if the movie is dumb Mikkelsen always goes all in plays the character with a full heart. Although I enjoy these fantastic beast movies they aren't my favorite. So overall I'm interested only because Mikkelsen in because the plot is always all over.

They'll have to transition to Jared Harris by FB7.

Jacob is Squib. Muggles can't see Hogwarts

I think who credence is if I got it correct is that he’s the son of dumbledore’s sister who he mentioned died and wouldn’t ya know it there was a woman who died at sea which is the same woman who’s baby got switched with the Le strange child.

GOD I NEEDED THIS SO BAD. I've fallen out of love with the series because of all the issues and I want to fall back in love. I'm so excited about this!

Thought the beard was leaving for good 🤔😂

Like, ugh, I don't want to support JK Rowling but also I love the wizarding world so much even when it's not great it amazes me. ah. Also in the books it's explained that Dumbledore beats Grindelwald in 1945. The first Fantastic Beasts takes place in the late 1920's...... so.... they got a lot of time to cover before this war ends.

This comment is not about the movie. I just want to compliment Jay on his T-shirt. Nice to see you have been in the St. Louis, MO area. That is one of many good BBQ joints there.

Kowalski is who you're thinking of