Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (2016) is directed by David Yates, who directed most movies of the Harry Potter franchise from the Order of the Phoenix. The screenplay was written by J.K Rowling, which I had the book and I read the whole screenplay. It was the first time J.K Rowling wrote a screenplay. I really enjoyed Fantastic Beasts because the magical creatures were so creatively created.
Eddie Redmayne took the role of Newt Scamander, a magizoologist who went to New York to send his Thunderbird Frank there. Redmayne was fantastic being this character, he had to keep his beasts a secret so nobody would know. There was Dan Fogler as Jacob Kowalski, a No-Maj (or Muggle in British English) who acted like an audience, he asked other characterss what was going on and they told not only him but also the audiences. I also liked Katherine Waterston as Tina Goldstein, she acted well and Colin Farrell as Percival Graves, who was actually a disguise. Graves was actually one of the most powerful wizards in the Wizarding World Gellert Grindelwald played by one of our favorite actors, Johnny Depp. His villainous acting was a bit weak and needed to be a little stronger and a darker character. His disguise acting was okay but when he was Grindelwald, he wasn't really in his dark characters but he was okay when he blew away 5 Aurors at the beginning.
This was about Newt going to NYC to.... I said it. Then some creature escaped from his suitcase. The creatures were really creative created by awesome CGI like The Niffler, Occamy, Erumpent, Swooping Evil,... They were like real and we wanted this universe to be real but it's not real. Dammit! I love all the creature designs, they're really cool! And David Yates had proved that he's the director who understood more about the Wizarding World more than others. This movie doesn't rely on a previous movie but set up itself. I mean this isn't a reboot and they did a really good job at creating the Fantastic Beasts series in the Harry Potter Universe. I love a lot of things about this movie, the creatures (they're adorable) (I wish there was a Hippogriff).
There's also one thing I liked about the movie: the original score. It was scored by James Newton Howard. The beginning theme was so satisfying that I couldn't take my ears off. Such a good soundtrack to listen to! I am looking forward to hear more of him.
I really loved Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them. It was such a good movie and it's one of the bests of the Harry Potter franchise. There's a lot of fun and you get to see a lot of magical things audiences wanted to see. Such an entertaining movie!
Points: 7.9/10
Points: 7.9/10