Movie Review: FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM (Review #2)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is the 2016 spin-off film from the wildly popular and influential Harry Potter franchise. J.K. Rowling steps into the screenwriter seat, creating new lore and stories for a period some 70 years prior to the events of the Harry Potter franchise. David Yates returns to direct his fifth film in the Potter-verse and the film stars Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, and Ezra Miller.

Movie Review: FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM

By a fortuitous event Newt Scamander's (Eddie Redmayne) magical suitcase, containing all different kinds of magical animals, is mistakenly swapped with muggle (No-Maj in the states) Jacob Kowalski's (Dan Folger) ordinary one. Kowalski opens the suitcase and some creatures escape and are now running rampant in the middle of No-Maj New York. It is now up to Newt to retrieve them all quickly before an already delicate situation with the No-Maj community goes even more south.