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If I could’ve unlatched a hinge on my own head and poured the books in for maximum absorption, I would’ve screamed, “ALOHOMORA!” and gotten those suckers in there.Īnd even though those days are largely behind me, I still thought the prospect of having a new Harry Potter canon in my life might spark something like excitement. I hung on every word Rowling wrote all I wanted was for her to write a million more for me to absorb. Let’s get this out of the way now: I loved Harry Potter to distraction as a kid and well into my adulthood. The worst parts of Fantastic Beasts belong to its plot Dark Forces are gathering, but don’t worry about them, we’ll catch up with them in the next movie (probably). Once I accepted that I wasn’t watching a movie so much as a marketing opportunity, I could focus my attention on the rest of what Fantastic Beasts had to offer. Rowling’s first screenplay adaptation of her own work does everything it can to justify this movie’s existence as a new cornerstone of her world, weaving in new histories and fun facts about wizarding that she didn’t get to cover in the original series.īut the truer intent of Fantastic Beasts reveals itself as veteran Harry Potter director David Yates continues to swoop the camera like he’s mapping out a blueprint for Universal’s inevitable Fantastic Beasts roller coaster.
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