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Seven decades before Harry Potter, a sole wizard travelled to New York with a suitcase full of fantastic beasts and changed the wizarding community for the better.
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy/MysteryDirector: David Yates
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Colin Farrell, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Samantha Morton, Carmen Ejogo, Ronan Raftery, Josh Cowdery, Jon Voight, & Ron Perlman.
Run Time: 133 min.
US Release: 18 November 2016
UK Release: 18 November 2016
German Release: 17 November 2016
I need to be honest here; I did not expect this movie to cause that much mayhem in Germany! Cinemas are still booked out for days and I was lucky to get in yesterday eve. It was well worth the wait though because I enjoyed every minute of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and left the screening room with a big smile on my face. While this fantasy hit plays in the same universe as Harry Potter, it felt very different and can be watched as a standalone picture; something I thought to be a positive because it didn’t need to rely on big names and scenes that tied it to the Potter franchise. It wasn’t a flawless movie though and I had a few nitpicks here and there.
The Harry Potter franchise was a big part of my childhood and adolescence. I read all the books in English and German, watched the movies and grew up together with these characters. I bought the official eighth title Harry Potter and the Cursed Child when it came out this year, and read it in one sitting. So I was naturally pumped to see this film in cinemas.
In 1926 the wizard community is on edge due to the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald escaping custody in Europe. While mean Newt Scamander (Redmayne), a wizard studying and protecting magical beasts, arrives in New York to set free one of his creatures but accidentally switches his suitcase with that of muggle Jacob Kowalski (Fogler). Kowalski releases all beasts when opening up the luggage and a race ensues, in which Scamander is trying to catch his creatures before Auror Percival Graves (Farrell) gets to them first.
This is J.K. Rowling’s screenwriting debut, proving that she is able to not only write a captivating novel but also a great film script. Fantastic Beasts felt like a natural extension to the Harry Potter novels for those that grew up with them, as it contained a mature and pretty dark storyline for the once younger audience of the magical series. At the same time, it was an original tale that took place 70 years prior to the tragedy that befell Harry and gave the viewers a different part of the wizarding world to explore. It also contains a soft-spoken message about animal treatment and preservation, which suited the film well.
The story was not without flaws though. For instance, I thought that some of the magical aspects were depicted a little bit uncreative and cold; such as the word “No-Maj” for nonmagical humans or the entrance to the department of magic, separating it from the real world. The way the movie ended, with Newt asking his thunderbird to help with a specific potion, was also resolved a little too convenient. Other than that I adored the narrative!
This is the perfect role for Eddie Redmayne, who knows exactly how to play introverted and insecure characters because that is exactly who Newt Scamander is. He has no real friends, annoys people around him and yet he is a really likeable character, who through his loneliness found friendship in the creatures he tries to understand and protect from the wizarding world. Redmayne did a fantastic job portraying Scamander, even though at times it was a little hard to understand his mumbling.
Dan Fogler plays Jacob Kowalski, a muggle that stumbles by accident upon the wizarding world of NY. He is used as the exposition-dump character, to explain specific things to the audience and it was handled really well, he is also used as comedic relief, but Fogler didn’t play it too silly to harm his presence on screen. Most surprisingly though, is the fact that Kowalski is the emotional anchor of this film and it does make sense, since it is through him the audience gets a peek into the wizarding world of New York.
Katherine Waterston and Alison Sudol portrayed the sisters Tina and Queenie Goldstein, two witches working for the Magical Congress of the United States (MACUSA). Both try to help Newt find his creatures and get into peril for it. I loved Waterston as Tina. She was a strong female character who never gave up. Alison Sudol, on the other hand, tried to mimic Marilyn Monroe a little too much for my taste, but she was nonetheless a sweet addition to the cast.
I can’t say much about Colin Farrell, as MACUSA agent Percival Graves, or about Ezra Miller, who depicts the abused child of an anti-magic fanatic, played by a wonderful Samantha Morton, without spoiling a big chunk of the film. Be assured though that both of them fitted in perfectly and gave extraordinary performances!
This is a beautifully constructed fantasy epos with jaw-dropping effects and panoramic scenes that copy 1920’s New York in a very original way. The cinematographic style that was used, together with the good costume design and choice of sets, replicated that era perfectly and gave it a hint of the magical world, which J.K. Rowling dreamed up. I was also very fond of some of the beasts designs, especially that of the Bowtruckle, and the gloomy cold colour palette that nuanced the darker moments of the plot.
Sadly the effects didn’t always hold up throughout the movie’s length, especially when it came to the magical creatures. While some of them looked good there were others that looked rather weak, such as Newt’s Thunderbird. What made Harry Potter so beautiful to look at was the balanced mix of prosthetics and computer imagery. Fantastic Beasts, though, relies heavily on CGI and that disappointed me a little.
James Newton Howard managed to replicate John Williams's musical touch to the wizarding world perfectly but at the same time, he gave the score his own little touch. The melodies complimented the story well and gave the film that special something.
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