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

[herefox]

I dozed off in the beginning for a little bit it was so slow. I found that Eddie Redmayne tended to mumble his lines which, on top of the accent, made it difficult sometimes to understand what he was saying.

It was a very pretty movie in a lot of ways though I found that a lot of the beast's designs looked straight out of video games for the most part.

So I'm kind of right there with you. It wasn't horrid but I'd have rather gone to Dr. Strange (which I still haven't seen *sob*)

[deborahblakehps]

Now THAT was a movie!

[brienze]

I was entertained, I suppose because I'd have happily spent the whole two hours inside his trunk, nevermind about plot or character development.

I'm 1000% with you about the big reveal, though. That is not a "chocolate in my peanut butter" situation. Harry Potter movies are usually so good about casting, too. (And aren't the Brits supposed to be, er, British?)

[deborahblakehps]

Alas, I agree with you completely. The first half of the movie could have been condensed into about 15 minutes (tops), and while the creatures WERE fantastic, it would have helped if there had been, you know, a plot to go with them.

And that last bit....SIGH.

Ah well. It was still worth seeing in the movie theater for all the pretty, but such a disappointment. Can we have Harry back now?

[mizkit]

Ah, I'm so sorry you agree with me. :)

[deborahblakehps]

Well, it's not your fault the people who made the movie blew it! (And at least I was forewarned to have low expectations, so I probably enjoyed it more than if I'd been expecting something truly...fantastic.)