![]() To be sure, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an immeasurably entertaining film that, despite a number of faults, will absolutely succeed at bewitching most audiences, particularly the older ones who won’t mind getting mired down into the political monstrosities of early 20th century America (and how in some ways it’s little different from the United States of nearly a hundred years later). This really isn’t a prequel or a Harry Potter film at all it’s a unique adventure in an unexplored region of his world, with its own advantages and, yes, disadvantages too. ![]() ![]() Indeed, Yates and Rowling lived up to their word about doing something different by casting a gaze toward the 1920s, and in New York at that. Yet with Fantastic Beasts, Rowling is stretching her creative god’s eye well past the Boy Who Lived or even his enchanted school. films they spawned (of which Yates directed the final four installments), have touched multiple generations of parents and children, many of whom from the latter group are now having kids of their own. Rowling and director David Yates are inevitably going to have to fight against with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a prequel of sorts to the beloved Harry Potter franchise. That is the type of conventional wisdom that J.K. ![]() The past is a wilderness of horrors, after all, and to look back on it can only lead to disappointment. ![]() There is an old adage which states you can’t go home. ![]()
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