2016 · fantasy · adventure · family
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Directed by David Yates2h 13m2016
In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the American wizarding authorities after Newt, and threatens to strain even further the state of magical and non-magical relations.
Our read: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive fantasy · adventure · family entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured fantasy / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
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