The script is OK and the actors are all quite good in the roles (especially the central three characters) but overall, the movie is an uninspired 'by-the-numbers' opus targeting a guaranteed audience of Potter-philes.""",''NEWYEARS The movie also suffers from the trend in the HP series to make the 'magic' more action-friendly: the wizards now handle their wands like handguns and fire spells at their nemeses, making 'magic battles' look like shootouts in Star Wars. The 'fantastic beasts', while well rendered, are not particularly interesting, perhaps because they were just made up for the movie (the vivification of 'mythical' creatures was one of the highlights of the Potter series). Typical of Rawling's 'Harry Potter' stories (and movies), there is a lot of clever imagery and imaginative moments that serve to cover frequent inconsistencies or lapses in logic in the plot and the ending of the film is especially contrived and flimsy (see 'goofs' for details). There is not much of a plot, the movie is primarily a series of CGI set pieces strung together. Superimposed on this situation are some secondary stories of a dark wizard trying to establish a magical Reich, a disgraced Auror (Katherine Waterston), and a muggle cannery worker (Dan Fogler) who wants to be a baker. Reviewed by JLRVancouver 6 / 10 / 10 Lackluster spinoff from the Potter-verseīritish wizard Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) shows up in 1926 New York carrying a suspiciously animate briefcase and soon strange beasts are running wild in Manhattan. And I personally dislike FX-heavy movies where the Big Bad is some amorphous cloud (not as bad as Green Lantern, but pretty bad).įinal thought: why do so many large beasts have bird's heads? This seems to be a thing with Rowling. Newt's interaction with some of the larger beasts didn't look realistic (e.g. awkward pauses littered the film, robbing it of its momentum. Poor: The editing seemed off to me, in a way I haven't noticed since The Chamber of Secrets. Their hot-and-cold treatment of Tina for her interruptions made no sense to me either. The MACUSA wizards & witches were extremely underdeveloped, including the President. Yes he's playing an introverted character, but I saw no reason for the bond he seemed to build with Tina. Newt (Eddie Redmayne) in particular left me dissatisfied. Special effects were (mostly) very good, and the Fantastic Beasts were individually great fun. Good parts: Period costumes & sets were beautiful. Reviewed by beany_kelly 6 / 10 / 10 SFX pretty good, characters & pacing lacking.
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