Watch FANTASTIC BEASTS Easter Eggs and Connections to Harry Potter
Mr. Sunday Movies has created another "Every Easter Egg" video this time focusing on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The video does a good job of breaking down a few things easily missed. Also, if you haven't seen the movie, the video contains spoilers, but I'm sure that was obvious.
Joey gave the Fantastic Beasts a 10/10 in his review. I wouldn't rated the movie that high; it's a solid 7/10. The movie was executed well on on all expected fronts: music, effects, production design, and costumes. I couldn't connect with Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander— he's too ambiguous to me, perhaps I'll warm to him in more movies. Dan Fogler as Jacob Kowalski was more relatable and is a great stand in for the audience. Something else that knocks the movie down for me is the short time period, everything seems to happen in a handful of days, I missed the sense of time passing that you get from the Harry Potter films. I enjoyed the film, but it was far from perfect to me.