It’s about the power of whispering rather than shouting tenderness and love erasing violence and terror. It’s a film about immigrants who might seem foreign, with different values and ideas, but who just might save us from ourselves. “Fantastic Beasts” is transporting, but its themes are far from escapist. The rest of the cast features scene-stealers Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton and Ezra Miller as the most complicated creatures of all. He’s balanced by Dan Fogler as Kowalski, his jovial local No-Maj pal, Waterston as the Hepburn-esque gal with moxie, and an ethereal Alison Sudol as Tina’s sensual sister Queenie. Redmayne is bashfully charming as Newt, giving a typically excellent physical performance as a shy man more comfortable around creatures than humans.
You’ll immediately crave more, and the world Rowling creates is both richly rendered and just the tip of the iceberg. “Beasts” plunges us into this fresh magical world populated by actual grown-ups - gangsters, babes and bakers - and this extra edge of sexy urban grime proves to be an intoxicating addition to the Potterverse. magical world, which is strictly kept secret from the No-Majs (aka Muggles). Those would be the fantastic beasts with which the film is concerned - they’re outlawed in the U.S. But the one shady thing he smuggles through customs is a battered suitcase that growls, hisses and rattles. He arrives in New York City the way many of the immigrants who made this country great did, through Ellis Island. Our hero is a tousle-haired, stoop-shouldered ginger from the fair isle of Britain, Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne).
“Fantastic Beasts” is “Harry Potter” with adults, with the added pizzazz of all the salacious trappings of 1926 Jazz Age New York to spice up the style. But it’s definitely not all-too-familiar - there isn’t a butterbeer or an owl in sight. logo appears on screen before “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” you’re transported back to that oh-so-familiar magical world spun by the keys of J.K. As soon as the familiar twinkly score starts up and the eerie blue Warner Bros.
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