Picoreview: Fantastic Beasts

[mizkit]

Picoreview: Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them: really not very good.

It started out slowly and took far too long to end. There were tedious bits in between occasionally interrupted by charm, but the charm was rarely presented by Eddie Redmayne’s Newt, who, as the lead, literally had a line about how people didn’t really like him very much. But

Comments

[deborahblakehps]

Bummer. I'm finally going to get to see it on Saturday, and I'd been really looking forward to it. At least now I have reasonable expectations...

[mizkit]

Other people have liked it more than I did! Perhaps you'll be pleasantly surprised instead! O.O :)

[deborahblakehps]

Anything is possible, although I tend to be picky :-) Of course, there are plenty of silly "B" movies that I enjoy despite myself, so you never know. And hey, it will be a distraction from the shingles and the post-election depression...

[6_penny]

Shingles-ow. Many sympathies

[deborahblakehps]

Yes. And the fact that they showed up right after said election...probably not a coincidence!