Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) is completing a project to
find and document magical creatures.
Things become complicated when he arrives in New York, runs into a
Muggle (or No-Maj in America) named Jacob Kowalski (Dan Folger), and some of
the Fantastic Beasts escape from Newt’s magical case.
Newt discovers that the New Salem Philanthropic Society has
an agenda to find and kill witches and wizards, and that a secret group, the
Magical Congress of the United States of America, wants to keep the magical
world secret. With the help of Jacob and
two magical sisters, Portentina “Tina” (Katherine Waterston) and Queenie
Goldstein (Alison Sudol), Newt prevents the wizarding world from being exposed.
This is a fun movie.
I like the setting, the 1920s, and I like the references to Hogwarts
before Harry Potter’s time. Fantastic Beasts and How to Find Them is
first referenced in the Harry Potter books as a textbook written by Newt
Scamander that belongs to Harry, and I like origin stories. The cast does a good job in their roles, and
the interaction between the main characters (Redmayne, Folger, Waterston and
Sudol) is entertaining. The special
effects are well done and the creatures are interesting. I would recommend this movie.
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