A few years ago, we left Hogwarts with the promise that world’s most famous witchcraft and wizardry school will always be there, waiting for us. The promise is fulfilled, even if it’s another decade and another continent. For this episode of Kawaii at the Movies, we saw Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the first of a new movie series dedicated to the magical world created by J.K. Rowling. Dear wizards, witches and muggles, here are our 5 good reasons to run to the movie theatres now (if you haven’t already done it).
It’s like coming back home and leave for a journey at the same time.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them starts with those notes we know very well and which will make many of you emotional. The feeling, in fact, is to come back in a world we love and know quite well. At the same time, however, it’s a brand new place to discover: not dear old Hogwarts, but The New York of the roaring twenties, with a Great Gatsby vibe, new characters, new rules, new drinks to order at a bar and also a new slang (after all, we are in the United States).
It’s a prequel.
Let’s say things straight: we couldn’t care less about Harry and friends’ sons. We’re always been more curious about what happened before the events of the books. Sadly J.K. Rowling didn’t give us the Marauders’ adventures we dream of since The Prisoner of Azkaban, but she sheds light on a chapter of the history of magic so far only hinted (the clash between Grindelwald and Dumbledore). In this movie we only have a glimpse of it, but we can’t wait to know something more… and maybe in the future there will be a cameo of You Know Who (born in the same year in which it is set Fantastic Beasts).