I liked it. It was really nice. I didn’t fall in love with Newt, I must admit I simply accepted him but could feel very little for him. But I liked the fantastic beasts, and the story, and Queenie, and yes, Jacob. The first scene with Jacob, I was very doubtful, he’s not exactly handsome, sorry, and seemed rather boring, plus there was the obvious and overused expedient of swapping-cases, since Jacob and Newt had identical suitcases. That was so obvious, so predictable, but later I excused them; they needed a way to bring Jacob back in, and I accepted that because I came to like this character, the way he looked at the fantastic things around him, that look or marvel was endearing, and I started to like him :-) So often in this kind of situation the stranger would start yelling ‘what’s that?’ and would keep screaming and being very annoying, but he didn’t, he watched with marvelled eyes and was like ‘yeah, sure’ towards everything he saw :-)
I was never very fond of Tina, I could only tolerate her because after all she was a good person like Newt, but I liked her sister Queeny :-) I don’t always like such flirty characters, but she was one of my favs here, she was sweet and nice, I liked how she moved, her gestures were like ethereal, her hands moved in a charming way, everything about this character was lovely. She could read minds, but it wasn’t annoying like sometimes it can be, it was nice :-)
Newt comes to America to free a giant fantastic beats (a kind of gryphon?) and maybe also to look for other animals, he studies them and protects them. One animals breaks loose in a bank because it loves shiny things (this creatures, whatever it’s called, was lots of fun, I loved it :lol: ), and there he meets Jacob who wanted a loan to open a bakery but they denied it to him. Tina wants to arrest him for violating American wizardry rules, because they have strict rules about hiding from no-mag people, but she’s not well seen in her department, she was actually expelled or something, so nobody really pays her much attention, specially since there is no proof since he exchanged cases and instead of animals he has cakes now. When they find Jacob who has been attacked by another animal, after he opened the case, Tina takes both to her home. Newt takes Jacob inside his case (I have a question, how can the case move around when they are in it??).
Newt shows him the many creatures inside, he even has an obscurus, without a human body. Jacob doesn’t want to sneak away after the girls were so nice to him :-) but he doesn’t want to be obliviated, so he goes with Newt to help him retrieve the animals. (To catch the little thief he destroyed a shop, it was painful to see that beautiful chandelier falling down...). I liked Newt’s motto, “worrying means you suffer twice”, quite right actually :-D Tina catches up with them once they catch a huge beast. She brings them back, inside the case, to a magical congress, after a man running for senator (I think) was killed by an obscurus (or obscurial? I’ll have to read the book...). Newt (who is the little brother of a war hero, thrown out of Hogwarts because of an accident with a beast), and is worried when they take his case, worried about the creatures more than about himself. Newt and Tina, and Jacob, are put in prison. Apparently obscurus are created when some people try to suppress their magical powers and sometimes create one who takes control and can hurt people, eventually killing the host too, usually very young. Graves works for the mag police or something, and sentences both to death. Queeny senses about it, she saves Jacob first from being obliviated, then she retrieves the case with his help. Newt’s creatures help him escape, and of course he takes Tina with him. They reunite with Queeny, who has them all enter the case and then she walks out of there.
They look for the other escaped animals. Graves meanwhile has been asking troubled guy Credence to find a specific child, with an obscurus inside, and bring him to him. Credence, like many other children, has been adopted by an evil woman of the worst kind, those preaching against evil like she preaches against witches, but at one point she goes too far: she’s always been evil and Credence never rebelled when she beat him, but maybe now he’s afraid she’ll take it out on little girl Modesty, because finally we see an obscurus killing her. We still don’t know it’s him, they planned it for long time to make us believe it was the little girl, but what matters is that the evil woman is finally killed, thank you obscurus. Newt and the other three catch the snake-like creature (who changes size to fit into the available space of whatever it finds) and also the ape-like creatures that was like babysitting it. Those are the last animals, put back into the case. I loved how Jacob looked comfortable in there surrounded by those animals now, while Tina looked around in wonder :-)
Newt was once in love with a Lestrange girl, apparently, Neeta? Leeta?
Graves thinks it’s Modesty too, he thought Credence was a wizard with no magic or something, but now he shows some, breaking down walls when the guy finds Modesty. Credence becomes angry, he really thought before, that Graves was his friend, that he cared about him but he doesn’t, he only wanted the obscurus. Now he unleashes the obscurus’ power breaking havoc in the city. Graves chases him like a precious thing he wants to own and control; Newt and Tina go after it to ‘save him’ instead. The human police try to shoot it, because that’s the only thing humans know how to do; the battle ends up in the subway, with Graves trying to get Credence on his side, and Newt and Tina trying to help him take control of that power and stop. The magical President comes with all her men and kill the obscurial and Credence together (when she says it, I hear obscurial, when everyone else says it, I hear obscurus...). Graves is angry that they killed him, she orders him to be arrested, he attacks them, Newt stops him with the help of his creatures, Tina takes his wand, and Graves reveals his real face, he’s actually Grindelwald (which explains why we hadn’t seen him until now). He says “do you think you can hold me?” then they take him away. Now the president thinks their community has been exposed and there’s nothing they can do, but Newt frees the huge fantastic bird and gives him the thing used to obliviate, and it takes it to the sky, making it rain upon the whole city (what about people inside houses?).
Wizards walk around to make things alright again, all the things destroyed , the streets, the buildings, they put everything right again, then it’s time for Jacob to be obliviated too. He understands, and walks willingly under the rain after saying goodbye. They are sad to lose him; and his goodbye to them, his goodbyes with Queenie, are the touching moment of the movie, the only one that actually brought me tears. They were very cute and touching, and the actors good.
(Can mag-people be obliterate by the rain as well? Why is Queenie using an ‘umbrella’ ? Just to cover her hair from the rain?)
Jacob forgets everything and goes back to work in a factory; Newt purposefully bumps into him to exchange their cases, giving him one filled with the snake-like-creatures’ eggs, very much valuable (pure silver or something?) so he can use them to get a loan, or directly sell them to open his bakery :-)
Newt has to take a ship to England, to take the case out of New York as ordered by the President, but he sort of promises to come back to see her and bring her his book when finished.
Jacob’s bakery is going quite well, and he makes his break and pastries in the creatures’ shapes, not knowing himself where those ideas come from, and Queenie comes in and smiles at him... :-)
The end :-)
Well, the law says that he had to be obliterated because there can’t be no-mag witnesses around, but in theory the law also says that mag people can’t be friends with no-mags.... I guess she just doesn’t care, and as long as nobody spies on her... :-)
Newt Scamander-Eddie Redmayne
Graves - Colin Farrell
Tina - Katherine Waterston
Jacob Kowalski - Dan Fogler
Queenie - Alison Sudol
Credence - Ezra Miller
Henry Shaw Sr - Jon Voight
Grindelwald - Johnny Depp
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