Title: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (IMDB)
*ing: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, Colin Farrell
Language: English
Director: David Yates
Genre: Fantasy
Preamble
For a Harry Potter fan, any new material is always welcome. Even if it is a movie which is named after one of Harry's textbooks.
Basic Premise
A wizard lands in New York with a bag full of strange creatures who are accidentally set loose. He has to recapture them while at the same time try to maintain the fragile peace between the magical and non-magical communities and saving New York from complete annihilation.
MovieNotes
The Highs
- The Fantastic Beasts were a visual and cinematic delight especially the niffler. Only wish they had more airtime.
- Overall visual effects in creating the magical world. However, they overdid the 3D stuff by continuously throwing stuff at the audience.
- It is part of the Harry Potter world but yet a distinct spin-off, given that it is set much before Harry's time. Although the movie does reference a few characters and incidents from the main storyline. And yes it is all setting up for the major war referenced in the Potter series.
- The surprise cameo at the end [Not revealing who]
- There were too many things going on in the story at the same time. In fact, one could completely cut out the "fantastic beasts" and still get the same storyline.
- Unlike the Harry Potter series, the characters are not so memorable.
- The wizarding world at confrontation with the no-majs (as muggles are referred in USA). This is more out of the X-men franchise rather than Rowling's world. [Aside - Why do Americans do everything so differently]
Now that they have announced four more movies in this series, waiting to see how the story unfolds and the familiar characters come into play.
Rating - 7/10. Good visual effects combined with a confounding storyline. In all a spin-off which gives the feel of being just a cash-grab.
Previously on MovieNotes - Doctor Strange
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