Cogill: Harry Potter Fans Will Love “Fantastic Beasts”

The movie sometimes struggles to cram every idea in, getting a little lost in establishing the less tolerant wizarding community in America.

For those of you still grieving the end of the eighth Harry Potter film, Fantastic Beasts will whisk you away to another magical world that you’ll never want to return from.

Fantastic Beasts swaps Hogwarts for 1920s NY and follows the trail of Newt Scamander, who accidentally loses his magical beasts in the muggle realm.

Well, J.K. Rowling penning the screenplay soon changed that assumption as did the hiring of veteran Harry Potter director David Yates, and the reviews for the movie have been great. He has been tapped to do the second “Fantastic Beasts” movie.

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” took in $43.5 million in its Thursday preview alone. Since opening earlier this month, it has made $571.5 million worldwide.

“Fantastic Beasts” has also launched in 47 worldwide markets, earning $23.5 million between Wednesday and Thursday. Most of us sitting in the audience don’t. The sci-fi mindbender “Arrival” took fourth with $11.8 million, while the themed comedy “Almost Christmas” rounded out the top five with $7 million.

And right behind “Doctor Strange” this week is “Trolls“, also finishing up with about $17 million. That’s well below expectations of a $10 million opening weekend. Well I, for one, found Fantastic Beasts to be positively delightful. This week marks the kick-off of the Thanksgiving weekend with the animated flick “Moana” starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and the Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard drama “Allied”.

We’ve left Harry, Hogwarts, England, and even modern times behind.

Redmayne is affable and endearingly awkward as Newt; so, too, is Fogler, and the inclusion of a No-Maj (the American term for the UK’s Muggle) in a central role is largely what sets this apart from the more hermetically sealed Potter tales.

According to Time this latest J.K Rowling masterpiece has just hit the theaters this Friday and has been such a blockbuster since. With “The Theory of Everything” it was knowing Stephen and Jane Hawking and the family would see the film.