Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

A prequel and a spinoff to the Harry Potter film series by J.K. Rowling and partly based on the fictional textbook she wrote in between books, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them takes place in the late 1920s over 70 years before the first film. The fantasy film deals with Newt Scamander, a wizard who works as a magical zoologist as he visits New York City and has to deal with many of his creatures that have escaped from his magical suitcase. At the same time a powerful magical force threatens to expose the Wizarding World to the normal population which is blamed on Newt and his creatures. This being Rowling's first foray into screenwriting she does a great job with only a few hiccups here and there such as the plot being very simple and having been done before. Eddie Redmayne, as Newt, is well cast and plays his insecurities perfectly, with the chemistry between him and the other characters is done well. It's great to see what the world introduced in Harry Potter is like outside of England and in the past. While it was great to see Johnny Depp play the villain, one complaint is how there wasn't a lot of him to really understand or that his reveal at the end was never foreshadowed and just came out of nowhere. Over all: 97%
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