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“Fantastic Beasts” takes place 70 years prior to when our beloved Harry Potter attends Hogwarts and ties some of the peripheral story together. He’s the custodian of one beast that resembles a giant eagle (with a dash of a risen phoenix) and a purplish snake that looks as if it started out as a peacock before changing its mind during incubation, which is how a pair of wings ended up fluttering near its coiling tail.Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them dropped this weekend, and it was absolutely fantastic! JK Rowling has delivered perhaps one of the greatest “prequels” in cinematic history. ![]() Newt is a British magizoologist, a collector-protector of exotic animals, and is en route home from his travels scooping up specimens. This little party’s just beginning.Īs promised, the title critters in “Fantastic Beasts” are whimsically entertaining and occasionally as entrancing as those animals both real and imagined crawling through a medieval illuminated manuscript, with their gaudy hues and hints of gold. As in Harry’s world, something terrible is intent on stirring up trouble - here, knocking down buildings, tearing up cobblestone streets - although presumably it will take another four movies before all is revealed. He’s soon swept up in assorted goings-on, some involving the incorrigible, free-ranging beasts that have slipped out of his suitcase, others involving homegrown wizards and witches, as well as the humans who loathe and fear their magical ways. For some reason or another (including a change of scenery), Newt has landed in New York, where some folks tawk funny and trains run on elevated tracks.
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