There’s a major cameo in Fantastic Beasts

Fantastic Beasts, grabbing an A CinemaScore from audiences, is a crucial test for Warners and Rowling as they look to continue the Harry Potter franchise with five new films that won’t feature boy wizard himself.

It’s all fairly entertaining, as Newt the wizard-scholar accidentally lets loose a menagerie of creepy-crawlies in 1926 NY and then confronts the havoc they wreak.

We’ve left Harry, Hogwarts, England, and even modern times behind. If you haven’t had a chance to see the Harry Potter spinoff/prequel, you should check it out if you are a fan of the Harry Potter series of movies.

Fantastic Beasts follows the adventures of writer and “magizoologist” Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards.

In Fantastic Beasts, the major threat that Newt Scamander has to face is an “obscurus”.

Director David Yates is back, he was in charge of four of the Potter films, and he’s going to be at the helm for the rest of this saga – which is now set to last for a total of five films.

What makes you most excited about Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them?

“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” takes place in the world of wizards and Harry Potter, but it felt quite different than the Potter films and much more adult.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them really succeeds in moments of peril and action.

So what’s the connection to Deathly Hallows? (Unless of course you already read about Ezra Miller accidentally revealing this huge spoiler) At the end of the film, Newt seems to discover something is off about Graves and performs a revealing spell on the wizard who promptly turns into Grindelwald.

The result of this is that Newt’s suitcase of magical creatures gets opened, letting them out to surprise the public and leaving him with the tough task of rounding them all back up again. With “The Theory of Everything” it was knowing Stephen and Jane Hawking and the family would see the film. In the case of Harry Potter, though, it was much easier to fill in the second half of the title with the names of various artifacts or sobriquets for various people. But with that said, I still feel this movie earned its PG-13 rating with its violence and disturbing material.