In these tasks he is aided by an unlikely trio: the No-Maj Kowalski Porpentina “Tina” Goldstein (Katherine Waterston), a sympathetic investigator for the Magical Congress of the United States of America (MACUSA, which whether or not by coincidence is pronounced an awful lot like “ yakuza”) and her kind but flighty sister, Queenie (Alison Sudol). Who’s TARDIS, is much larger on the inside than it is on the outside-while also persuading everyone that he is not the would-be war-stoker. So it falls to Newt to restore the missing beasts to his luggage-which, like Dr. The stage is set for a civil war between the magical and No-Maj communities, a civil war it appears someone may be secretly trying to stoke. Worse still, an anti-witchcraft movement, the “Second Salemers,” is on the march.
Something far more powerful and sinister has been tearing its way through the pre-war buildings and cobbled streets, in the process setting the local wizard higher-ups-played by Carmen Ejogo and Colin Farrell-on high alert. Inevitably, several of the creatures escape and begin causing minor mischief in Manhattan.īut they are not the only otherworldly beings that are afoot (a-claw? a-wing?) in the city. Doolittle and you won’t be far off.Īlas, shortly after his arrival stateside, Newt mixes up his suitcase with that of a No-Maj-this is the American term for “muggle,” or non-magical individual, we colonials being rather more literal than our British cousins-named Kowalski (Dan Fogler), an amiable cannery worker who aspires to open a bakery. And gently try to educate my fellow wizards about them.” Picture a Hogwartian Dr. Or, as he himself describes his mission: “Rescue, nurture, and protect them. The conceit of the movie is that Newt (Eddie Redmayne) is in the process of compiling said textbook by collecting and cataloguing various magical fauna. Rowling’s universe-transcending Harry Potter series, it is very loosely based on a fictional “textbook” of the same name that Rowling published in 2001. And I suppose we might as well say that, because the title of the film is Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
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