Hyokano

This is the single most unwatchable piece of Trek I have ever seen. Worse than Star Trek V, even, though the mantle of "worst" may be debatable by others I have no reservations about my opinion because of the wasted potential of the source material here. Just another bad heist movie not worthy of Trek.

Watched in the original Japanese dub.

The tone of the show is all wrong, given the intended genre. There's just so much unnecessary dialogue that sounds like this isn't actually a horror anthology, like it's any other episode of some generic anime. As a viewer wanting to be scared, I wish they'd let me lose myself in the setting. It just doesn't feel eerie or dark enough. The opening theme is even tone-deaf.

A lot of pointless scenes in some episodes. Literally the first 10 minutes of the first episode we're unnecessary (when all the kids go in the tunnel together). There's also a lack of sensible premise in each of these stories, and it's hard to care about the characters. The twists are also lame, the build up boring, and again, too much expose through just talking.

I don't understand how a major studio can spend millions on a franchise only to let it be incredibly lame. All the characters talk so quietly to one another and are just so casual about everything that's going on that it makes you feel like nothing is really at stake. There's no suspense or excitement in the presentation, and if the idea for the franchise had any substance to begin with, it was stretched pretty thin over the course of 3 films that ultimately fall short of the "Fantastic Beasts" label. They might as well have called it "Gellert Grindelwald" and gave each film a subtitle. But that's also the problem - The focus is so split between Scamander, Grindelwald, Credence, and Dumbledore that you don't even know what the franchise is supposed to even be about. The main title of the franchise implies that the fantastic beasts are central to the storyline, but they are all mere tools to drive the stories which could just as easily have done without any of them. The first film was worse in terms of focus, but this last film was a giant snooze-fest on top of it all. You could probably edit all three films into one and salvage the franchise somehow, but of course, Johnny Depp's sudden recasting would need explanation just before the third act. I hope they don't make the same mistakes with the "Cursed Child."