Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

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The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New Yorks secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.

Has any movie in recent years been more keenly anticipated than “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”? We can all use more magic in our lives, and that promise is fulfilled quite delightfully at first. But extravagant creatures of digital descent can’t sustain a story that does little more than set the scene for a long string of sequels.

J.K. Rowling’s latest chronicle of wizardry—she wrote the disjointed, meandering screenplay herself—predates the Harry Potter series by many decades and takes place in New York. There, in 1926, the hero, a magizoologist named Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), arrives with several magical beasts in his suitcase and a hope of finding more across America.

Newt is a genial invention, the author of “Fantastic Beasts,” one of the textbooks that Harry will study at Hogwarts, and Mr. Redmayne gives him a mumblingly distracted eccentricity that’s truly eccentric and oddly engaging. An innocent abroad, Newt discovers that a dark force is laying waste to wide swaths of the city, and that antiwizard sentiment is surging. And he loses his precious creatures when his suitcase is inadvertently switched for a similar one by a Muggle—except that in New York they’re called No-Majs—named Jacob Kowalski. (Dan Fogler plays Jacob with such unaffected humanity that this amiable nobody, a factory worker with an entrepreneurial dream, becomes the movie’s most likable character.)

Newt’s need to recover his creatures is what drives most of the narrative. He’s joined by Jacob; a witch named Porpentina Goldstein (a bland performance by Katherine Waterston); and Tina’s younger sister, Queenie (Alison Sudol, who taps the spirits of Marilyn Monroe and Judy Holliday for some sorely needed pizazz).

The hunt through Manhattan has its rewards—fantastic beasts keep popping up in a charmingly tossed-off way. As it drags on, though, you’re increasingly aware that there’s no flow between other elements of the story having to do with larger, darker themes, while at certain junctures it’s hard to figure out what’s happening.

Comparisons to the Harry Potter films are unavoidable, and unflattering. The best of the Potters benefited from vivid characters, superb acting, stunning design and screenplays that combined sharp dialogue with strong dramatic carpentry. I hate to say it, but “Fantastic Beasts,” which was directed by the series veteran David Yates, has little or none of the above, even though it’s perfectly pleasant and occasionally exciting. Here’s hoping for magical sequels.

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