Redmayne fully embraces Newt’s awkward charm, even if he spends most of his time stretching his face into a panicked smile reminiscent of a Muppet trying to grin through immense pain. Newt faces down the MACUSA from within his own homey suitcase. Soon enough, plucky witch Tina ( Katherine Waterston) takes him to the Magical Congress to answer for his lax attitude toward keeping magic under wraps, most notably by neglecting to wipe the memory of affable non-wizard baker Jacob ( Dan Fogler). The basics of the story are these: Newt comes to America with his suitcase full of fantastic beasts to repatriate one of said fantastic beasts, when another escapes and chaos ensues. And if nothing else, surely the adventures of a magical-creature enthusiast careening around 1920s New York City would be exciting. Surely seeing a full-blown adaptation of Rowling’s slim book of the same name could be interesting, especially when interwoven with the rise of Gellert Grindelwald, the dark wizard who was Voldemort before Voldemort was Voldemort.
If I could’ve unlatched a hinge on my own head and poured the books in for maximum absorption, I would’ve screamed, “ALOHOMORA!” and gotten those suckers in there.Īnd even though those days are largely behind me, I still thought the prospect of having a new Harry Potter canon in my life might spark something like excitement. I hung on every word Rowling wrote all I wanted was for her to write a million more for me to absorb. Let’s get this out of the way now: I loved Harry Potter to distraction as a kid and well into my adulthood.
The worst parts of Fantastic Beasts belong to its plot Dark Forces are gathering, but don’t worry about them, we’ll catch up with them in the next movie (probably). Once I accepted that I wasn’t watching a movie so much as a marketing opportunity, I could focus my attention on the rest of what Fantastic Beasts had to offer. Rowling’s first screenplay adaptation of her own work does everything it can to justify this movie’s existence as a new cornerstone of her world, weaving in new histories and fun facts about wizarding that she didn’t get to cover in the original series.īut the truer intent of Fantastic Beasts reveals itself as veteran Harry Potter director David Yates continues to swoop the camera like he’s mapping out a blueprint for Universal’s inevitable Fantastic Beasts roller coaster.
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