Sunday, November 27, 2016

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Release Date: November 18, 2016

Starring: Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander
Colin Farrell as Graves
Katherine Waterston as Porperntina "Tina" Goldstein
Dan Fogler as Jacob Kowalski
Alison Sudol as Queenie Goldstein

Directed by: David Yates

Written by: J.K. Rowling

Newt Scamander is a young wizard who has spent most of his life studying Magical Beasts. When his studies bring him to New York he gets himself into trouble. When his beast escape and a no-maj sees, Newt must save his beasts, his new friends, and the Big Apple from danger.

Just like most people on the planet, I loved the Harry Potter books and movies. I was kind of worried when I heard about this film because it's risky business to expand on a story once it's already concluded. However, this just such a great job that you forgot about the Harry Potter story. Eddie Redmayne is so good in this role that I could not think of anyone else better for the job. What I think that I loved most about the story was the fact that we get to see a movie about someone who has already found their purpose. With the Harry Potter books/movies you are watching them not only fulfill a destiny but find what their purpose is for their life after the danger. With Newt he didn't have to fulfill a destiny and he found that his purpose was the study and protection of  magical beasts. So, I loved seeing a character in a role where an adventure finds him and he saves the day because it deals with what he loves to do for a living. Rather than trying to become into the person he needs to be to be or a hero.

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