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Cast

Eddie Redmayne
as Newt Scamander

Katherine Waterston
as Porpentina Goldstein/ Tina

Alison Sudol
as Queenie Goldstein

Dan Fogler
as Jacob Kowalski

Colin Farrell
as Percival Graves

Samantha Morton
as Mary Lou

Ezra Miller
as Credence Barebone

Jon Voight
as Shaw Senior

Carmen Ejogo
as Seraphina Picquery

Ron Perlman
as Gnarlak

Sam Redford
as Customs Official

Tim Bentinck
as Witness

Tristan Tait
as Reporter

Tom Clarke-Hill
as Photographer 2

Mathew Sim
as Photographer 1

Faith Wood-Blagrove
as Modesty Barebone

Jenn Murray
as Chastity Barebone

Corey Peterson
as Bank Employee

Lucie Pohl
as Secretary

Peter Breitmayer
as Mr. Bingley

Jake Samuels
as Bank Guard

Max Cazier
as Young Man

Dan Hedaya
as Red

Christy Meyer
as Guide-Inside Macusa

Christy Meyers
as Guide-Inside Macusa

Guy Paul
as Auror 2

Andreea Paduraru
as Auror 9

Walles Hamonde
as Auror 10

Dominique Tipper
as Auror 1

Kevin Guthrie
as Mr. Abernathy

Leo Heller
as Boy with Birthmark

Miles Roughley
as Poor Boy

Anne Wittman
as Housewife

Erick Hayden
as Policeman

Paul Birchard
as Hobo

Ronan Raftery
as Langdon Shaw

Tom Hodgkins
as Barker

Josh Cowdery
as Henry Shaw Jr./Senator Shaw

Ellie Haddington
as Mrs. Esposito

Joseph Macnab
as Police Officer 1

Bart Edwards
as Police Officer 2

Todd Boyce
as Announcer

Martin Oelbermann
as Heinrich Eberstadt

Gemma Chan
as Madam Ya Zhou

Richard Clothier
as British Envoy

Christian Dixon
as Momolu Wotorson

Akin Gazi
as Auror 3

Rich Hardisty
as Auror 4

Elizabeth Moynihan
as Executioner 1

Miquel Brown
as Executioner 2

Wunmi Mosaku
as Beryl

Cristian Solimeno
as Executioner 3

Matthew Wilson
as Sam the Obliviator

Brian Mulvey
as Watchman

Aretha Ayeh Emmi
as Singer The Blind Pig Speakeasy

Nick McGaughey
as Australian Wizard

Sean Cronin
as Nearby Criminal

Zoë Kravitz
as Lestrange

Arinzé Kene
as Auror 6

Jane Perry
as Female Customer in Bakery

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• Aug 24, 2018

  This film is gorgeously looking and hilarious, has an interesting plot (though complicated at times), benefits from a talented cast, and works as a Harry Potter spin-off.
  Serge E Super Reviewer
• Jul 18, 2017

  Though slightly less magical than the best of the Harry Potter film series, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them nonetheless re-establishes audiences in J.K. Rowling's wizarding world with a spun-off tale that's at times, well, fantastical. In this PG-13-rated fantasy adventure, writer Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) finds a treasure trove of briefcase-dwelling beasties unleashed in 1930s New York City. So far as adapting a 90-page encyclopedic primer into a 2 and 1/4 hour fantasy full of engaging characters and dazzling spectacle, Fantastic Beasts definitely deserves high marks. Thin on dramatic material but rich in the kind of detailed minutia that often supplemented Tolkien's epic works, Rowling's guidebook certainly doesn't seem like an obvious jumping off point. Considering that the guidebook began life as a prop in a single scene from 2001's Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone (she turned the prop book into an actual book while the film was in post-production), however, a feature film as the next logical step actually starts to make sense. The result mostly works and works exceedingly well. What falls in the film's favor is the fact that the author chose this project as her screenwriting debut. Rowling's rich imagination serves the project well, as she colors outside the lines of the Potter-verse while keeping one foot firmly planted in familiar (to some, beloved) territory. Set 70 years before Harry reads Scamander's book, this American-set period piece opens up a new wizarding world rife with sequel potential. Also, unlike with the mega-bestselling Potter book series, moviegoers don't necessarily know where this adventure is headed...necessarily, mind you. Therein lies one of the few actual rubs. The main plot comes to a very predictable conclusion, though the numerous sub-plots unquestionably tantalize audiences for the inevitable follow-ups. The main character also presents viewers with a bit of a rub. The supporting cast proves so rich with personality and character (Dan Fogler refuses to let the often buffoonish best friend role drift into cliche, Katherine Waterson and Alison Sudol invest two very different sisters with enough distinct verve to fill a Hogwarts class, and Colin Farrell makes for a fearful but sympathetic villain) that the reserved Scamander almost gets swept under the magic carpet. Thanks to Oscar winner Redmayne's (The Theory of Everything) masterly use of expression and tone, however, a little thankfully goes a long way. The actor slowly turns the quiet magi-zoologist into a very eccentric - but at the same time heroic - underdog. But let's not forget the titular characters. Brilliantly realized with wand-waving by some top designers and computer animators, the missing Beasts are, if not all Fantastic, pretty damn near to Fantastic (the Niffler, a platypus-like mammal who hilariously purloins shiny things, remains the stand-out). This whole exciting cauldron of story, character and SFX is never boring, swirling us into the bigger brew that's sure to follow. A ho hum twist at the end will excite some more than others but, between plotlines involving political skulduggery and a mysterious cult-leading sorcerer, moviegoers know Where to Find themselves when the sequel arrives. To Sum it Up: New Order of the Phoenix
  Jeff B Super Reviewer
• Apr 27, 2017

  It's not without fun elements, but there's an almost total lack of compelling characters. Also, I don't know what Eddie Redmayne was doing performance wise but none of it works.
  

  Alec B Super Reviewer
• Apr 18, 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.
  

  Charles B Super Reviewer

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