Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 133m
Director: David Yates
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Ezra Miller, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Alison Sudol
Synopsis:
A wizard arrives in 1920s America with a suitcase full of fantastic creatures and the hope of repatriating one of them to Arizona. However, he finds himself in the midst of growing tensions between magicals and non-magi alike, as a child's repressed powers run amok through New York. Meanwhile, one of the wizard community plans to use the destructive 'obscurus' to subdue humanity by terrorism.
Review:
A tired and cynical attempt to prolong the life of a profitable franchise. The lead performance is so mannered as to be devoid of any personality whatever, and the special effects are so dominant that the picture has a perpetually murky patina, draining the life further. If you like cute fantastic creatures and think that Lucas's cantina sequence from Star Wars represented the height of imaginative genius, then there may be fun to be had amid all the clattering about and wanton destruction Night-at-the-Museum-style; if not, then two hours-plus are far too long to sit through without the twin comforts of plot and character. Scraps of solace are to be found in the performances of Fogler and Sudol as the love-struck odd couple straddling the muggle-magical divide.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 133m
Director: David Yates
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Ezra Miller, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Alison Sudol
Synopsis:
A wizard arrives in 1920s America with a suitcase full of fantastic creatures and the hope of repatriating one of them to Arizona. However, he finds himself in the midst of growing tensions between magicals and non-magi alike, as a child's repressed powers run amok through New York. Meanwhile, one of the wizard community plans to use the destructive 'obscurus' to subdue humanity by terrorism.
Review:
A tired and cynical attempt to prolong the life of a profitable franchise. The lead performance is so mannered as to be devoid of any personality whatever, and the special effects are so dominant that the picture has a perpetually murky patina, draining the life further. If you like cute fantastic creatures and think that Lucas's cantina sequence from Star Wars represented the height of imaginative genius, then there may be fun to be had amid all the clattering about and wanton destruction Night-at-the-Museum-style; if not, then two hours-plus are far too long to sit through without the twin comforts of plot and character. Scraps of solace are to be found in the performances of Fogler and Sudol as the love-struck odd couple straddling the muggle-magical divide.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 133m
Director: David Yates
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Ezra Miller, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Alison Sudol
Synopsis:
A wizard arrives in 1920s America with a suitcase full of fantastic creatures and the hope of repatriating one of them to Arizona. However, he finds himself in the midst of growing tensions between magicals and non-magi alike, as a child's repressed powers run amok through New York. Meanwhile, one of the wizard community plans to use the destructive 'obscurus' to subdue humanity by terrorism.
Review:
A tired and cynical attempt to prolong the life of a profitable franchise. The lead performance is so mannered as to be devoid of any personality whatever, and the special effects are so dominant that the picture has a perpetually murky patina, draining the life further. If you like cute fantastic creatures and think that Lucas's cantina sequence from Star Wars represented the height of imaginative genius, then there may be fun to be had amid all the clattering about and wanton destruction Night-at-the-Museum-style; if not, then two hours-plus are far too long to sit through without the twin comforts of plot and character. Scraps of solace are to be found in the performances of Fogler and Sudol as the love-struck odd couple straddling the muggle-magical divide.