Review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) by Dean S — 17 Apr 2017
Crude, Americanized (and I do not mean the NYC setting,) junk driven entirely by glutinous CGI effects and populated with paper-thin characters that are memorable only when they are unbearably annoying (Redmayne is insufferably affected, slipping through fish-lips.
) Some dull nonsense about repressed magical children becoming smokenadoes of doom. No explanation of why Redmayne is wandering about with a safari park in a suitcase. Just a series of dreary mayhem sequences that recall Michael Bay's Transformers more than the rich, textured world of Harry Potter.
Also vaguely sexist. Plus a last minute cameo for the increasingly unnecessary Johnny Depp.
This review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) was written by Dean S on 17 April 2017.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has generally received positive reviews.
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