Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them Film Review

Finished watching Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them directed by David Yates and staring Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler and Alison Sudol. The film opens up with wizard Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) arriving in New York City in 1926 with a suitcase containing multiple different species of magic creatures and once they begin to start causing trouble former Auror of the Magical Congress of the United States of America Tina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston) brings Newt in when of of his creatures gets loose inside a bank where a protest against witches is taking place outside. After discovering that he has the wrong suitcase Tina and Newt try to find muggle Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler) who has picked up Newt's creatures that are accidentally are released onto New York and with the help from Jacob, Tina and her sister Queenie (Alison Sudol) who Newt and Jacob meet when Tina takes them to her apartment to make a plan for how to capture the escaped creatures. Overall this was a good film as it dives into a different part of the world established within the Harry Potter franchise by going to the prohibition era of New York which shows of the history and even the legal system of this universe. The journey that the main characters go through in terms of development is great especially with Jacob as the ending of the film becomes quite emotional with how it affects the relationship that is built between Jacob and Queenie as well as the rest of the main cast. The creatures themselves are magnificent in their design are magnificent as they look different enough from real life animals to give them their own uniqueness but still being able to see the inspiration of the creatures as well. 7/10.