Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, Samantha Morton, Ezra Miller, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight, Ron Perlman, Carmen Ejogo
OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆
Story: Spin-off fantasy drama from the Harry Potter movie series directed by David Yates and written by J. K. Rowling. Set in 1926, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) follows Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), who, after a global quest to document magical creatures, arrives in New York. There, a mishap involving a No-Maj named Jacob (Dan Fogler), and a misplaced magical case, sets off a chain of events endangering both wizarding and No-Maj worlds.
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'Worrying means you suffer twice.' - Newt Scamander (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) Share on X
Mary Lou: Are you a seeker? A seeker after truth?
Newt Scamander: I’m more of a chaser, really.
Jacob Kowalski: [to Newt] Hey, Mr. English Guy, I think your egg is hatching!
Porpentina Goldstein: At least tell me you took care of the No-Maj.
Newt Scamander: The what?
Porpentina Goldstein: The No-Maj. No-Magic. The non-wizard!
Newt Scamander: Oh. sorry, we call them Muggles.
Porpentina Goldstein: [referring to Newt’s magical case] It was open?
Newt Scamander: Just a smidge.
Porpentina Goldstein: Mr. Scamander, do you know anything about the wizarding community in America?
Newt Scamander: I do know a few things, actually. I know that you have rather backwards laws about relations with Non-Magic people. That you’re not meant to befriend them. That you can’t marry them, which seems mildly absurd to me.
Langdon Shaw: [referring to Mary Lou] She doesn’t want any money.
Shaw Senior: Then either her story is worthless, or she’s lying about the cost. Nobody gives away anything valuable for free, Langdon.
Newt Scamander: You’re a Legilimens?
Queenie Goldstein: Yeah. But I always have trouble with your kind, Brits. It’s the accent.
Jacob Kowalski: You know how to read minds?
Queenie Goldstein: Oh, don’t worry, honey. Most guys think what you was thinking first time they see me.
Jacob Kowalski: Newt, I don’t think I’m dreaming.
Newt Scamander: What gave it away?
Jacob Kowalski: I ain’t got the brains to make this up.
Jacob Kowalski: [to himself] “What did you do today, Jacob?” I was inside a suitcase.
Newt Scamander: People like you, don’t they, Mr. Kowalski?
Jacob Kowalski: Oh, well, I’m sure people like you, too, huh?
Newt Scamander: Not really, no. I annoy people.
Newt Scamander: You know, New York is considerably more interesting than I’d expected.
Newt Scamander: Put this on.
Jacob Kowalski: But why would I have to wear something like this?
Newt Scamander: Because your skull is susceptible to breakage under immense force.
Newt Scamander: Now there’s absolutely nothing for you to worry about.
Jacob Kowalski: Tell me, has anyone ever believed you when you told them not to worry?
Newt Scamander: Well, my philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.
Newt Scamander: [referring to the magical creatures] They’re currently in alien terrain surrounded by millions of the most vicious creatures on the planet, humans.
Percival Graves: You’re an interesting man, Mr. Scamander. You were thrown out of Hogwarts for endangering human life.
Newt Scamander: That was an accident.
Percival Graves: With a beast. Yet one of your teachers argued strongly against your expulsion. Now, what makes Albus Dumbledore so fond of you?
Newt Scamander: I really couldn’t say.
Jacob Kowalski: What, you’re not going to Obliviate me?
Queenie Goldstein: Of course not. You’re one of us now.
Porpentina Goldstein: Tell me the truth. Was that everything that came out of the case?
Newt Scamander: That’s everything. And that’s the truth.
Newt Scamander: [Queenie looks at him silently] Please don’t read my mind. Sorry, I asked you not to.
Queenie Goldstein: I know, I’m sorry. I can’t help it.
'People are easiest to read when they're hurting.' - Queenie Goldstein (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) Share on X
Queenie Goldstein: That was a real close friendship you had at school.
Newt Scamander: Well neither of us really fitted in at school. So, we became quite…
Queenie Goldstein: You became real close? For years. She was a taker. You need a giver.
Grindelwald: Do you think you can hold me?
Seraphina Picquery: We’ll do our best, Mr. Grindelwald.
Grindelwald: [to Newt] Will we die just a little?