"What does it mean? I don't know because there's no real connection but one character was related to another character whose name you've heard before...and that means that's a twist." This has aged very very well.
I really wish they'd had an angle that focused more on Newt's being a Zoologist. Like the villains were magical creature poachers or something, and then they can be revealed at the end to be in league with Grindelwald for... reasons.
@@edwardduda4222 Calling yourself a grammar snob is accurate since you hold yourself to a higher standard that doesn't actually exist, like a snob does. "On" is undeniably more correct than "in".
LoonyScamander Probably not, considering that his most defining features are having at least two gruesome deformities, and being incredibly grumpy from his career in the wizarding Special Forces.
Lore Sjoberg used to have a site called Book Of Ratings and it had like 5 lists of cereals and one quick Oreo Os rating snuck into his Ninja Weapons list. The book version is on Amazon (with bonus new ratings like Vampire Weaknesses) but he did more after, including video ratings.
I really wanted the scene at the end of the movie to be more like this: Grindelward: You think you can hold me? President: It's 1926 and this is America. We execute criminals. Grindelward: Wait, what?
This would have been especially good after they tried to execute Newt (A FOREIGN CITIZEN who WORKS FOR THE BRITISH MINISTRY, albeit on a grant basis) and an ex-employee of their OWN GOVERNMENT in like two hours after a single interrogation by one dude and everyone just seemed?? Fine with it?? I love that execution of foreign officials via shiny hydrochloric pensieve juice does not, in fact, require due process.
Mekarus Yeah, they’ve only tried imprisoning the magic equivalent of Adolf Hitler mixed with Charles Manson, but they’re totally cool with executing a servant of the court without a day in trial.
They just straight up fucking gun him down mobster style. Not even the wizards. Just some angry New York gangsters who are mad that grindlewalds shenanigans have somehow affected their underground crime business.
I agree, Grindelwald should keep changing identities, but ultimately (after 6 changes) he lands on Kevin Bacon, because every actor can be related to Kevin Bacon. And during the movie, to get information out of someone, he should force them to dance against their wishes. _ivivos saltandi_
just got here but your coney island idea is fucking genius. imagine how much fun it would be to watch. and all the vintage theme-park merch possibilities!!
"Oh, no! We can't erase all these muggles' memory. There's, like, a thousand of them, and, like, a hundred of us, and I'm tired, and we're just all gonna die."
I'd have even been happy with Colin Farrell as Grindelwald's right-hand man. A capable, dapper and menacing villain who can continue to do so in a supporting role.
17:55 This makes the ending of the movie 10x funnier because in the final shot with the bird, it is flying east into the Atlantic, so the only conclusion is that after being let loose into New York, the bird confusedly flew into the ocean and died.
There's an easy way to nearly fix the creatures looking fake. Do what I call "The Jurassic Park Trick." Jurassic Park has a lot of cg creatures but you buy it because they will do close shots of the dinos and use a puppet or animatronic, then show the cgi dino. The practical effect doesn't need to be of the full creature or even have much articulation, since it will be a tight shot that only shows part of the creature. This establishes the creature as a psyichal object that actually exists in the scene, so that you view the cgi creature as being that real object. This is part of why Jurassic World looks fake, they don't setup the dino with a practical effect, it's just all cgi.
This is kinda what JJ Abrams, Garett Edwards, and James Wan do quite often. If they can make it physically they do their damnedest to build it and make it look as good as possible... well... except for Aquaman it seems I’m James Wan’s case.
Jason Fenton There are some AMAZING videos of the jump tests of puppets they made for Jurassic Park on youtube... like this one which you can watch here - th-cam.com/video/Hyfy8rrfOkM/w-d-xo.html
I was watching this and thinking… “okay so we didn’t know that video was amber heard conveniently filming him finding out the death of his mother and we definitely didn’t have those other tapes of how their relationship was toxic on both sides but like…did we have the knowledge from Amber’s ex-wife?” I think Johnny is still middle ground like “dude you need rehab and therapy” which even in the times of POTC if you read his interviews he was pretty open about having a lot of emotional issues and substance problems. Ezra and JK though 😬- like Jude Law cheating on his wife with the nanny years ago is some how one of the least problematic people on set
I feel like JK and JD have both been publicly redeemed (except by some crazy factions on twitter and the "generally speaking here" far left) For the most part the majority view JK as a prolific author who shaped a nation and is a strong role model for young women. And JD as a man who was abused by his ex and needs years of rehab and therapy to help him cope with the life that was stolen. Ezra though that mf commited crimes and is in need of jail and mental help ASAP!
Agreed on the beasts looking too CGI. Prisoner of Azkaban came out over 10 years ago (wow, I feel old) and Buckbeak looked and felt way more lifelike than any of the creatures in this movie. Not to mention he had more personality. The jewel theif platapus was the only one that was remotely memorable. About Eddie being good in everything though - I'm guessing you didn't see Jupiter Ascending lol. It was definitely a case of an actor trying really hard in a really stupid movie. But that's what made it so bad.
TJ Hastie listen.... Jupiter Ascending was bad from the start, Eddie had literally no chance of saving it even if he really wanted to... Plus can we agree that the writing and directing was horrible, and the actors do what the script and director tells them to, so.....
DragonFang 409 Hmm. That explains why it looked better. CGI is only really nice looking when you drown it in money or when it’s only used to enhance the physical effects.
Some of the best creature performances I've ever seen were physical puppets operated by actors, with rig removal to hide the actor and supplemental components composited in to match the motion of the puppet. This technique lets other actors interact with something real to make the creatures more convincing AND lets artists use cgi elements to their greatest potential.
This, though. I was in high school when his first Transformer movie came out and I watched almost all the movies of the series in cinema... because that's what a confused, yet extrovert high school me did. I suppose all those action scenes had scarred me for life now, LMAO.
Rewatching Jenny's Fantastic Beasts videos in celebration of the inevitable third installment of her reviews, and it is as if she is making wishes on a monkey's paw. "I wish there was more going on, what if Grindelwald was a different actor, I wish we could see more of the magic world." Oh, how innocent we were.
I started off neutral. Then this review made me not want to see it but by the end, I wanted to see it to put this review in context. I'll wait for the VHS.
VHS? What are you? 70? It's a GREAT film! Will it change your life? No. Is she being a bit nit-picky? Yes! You can watch/stream it here btw (nice clean definition) gomovies.to/film/fantastic-beast-and-where-to-find-them-17919/
I get that the Obscurous (spelling?) was important, but that portion of the movie with Grindelwald felt like a separate story from Newt's and it took the focus away from even the film's title. I say keep that, but also add sense of urgency to finding these creatures. The creatures weren't really hunted by the wizarding community like Newt feared. I think it would've been more effective if Graves/Grindelwald personally led an initiative to capturing them for power and killing the useless ones. Let the Thunderbird out and have him brutally attack it and capture it for his own use under the guise of protecting the community. This makes the conflict between he and Newt much more personal and the title of the film much more crucial. Newt NEEDS to find them. When he gets his creatures, Graves is still seeking an Obscurial and Newt learns of this and needs to help this boy too. I loved the movie, but there wasn't much urgency felt by the audience for him to collect his creatures. Actually letting one of them die by Graves would have, in my opinion, made this really good movie great and could have tied the two stories into one. This might add a half hour, but I don't care. What do you all think?
(Old comment, but Idc) That would definitely be more dramatic, but I think they're doing a similar thing to the Harry Potter movies, and the next few movies are going to be darker and darker.
It's baffling why Rowling would make the lore being that the Salem witches were real witches and were impervious to being burned alive or crushed or whatever. It is so much more sensical for the women to have been muggles, like in reality, and have the tragedy of the witch-hunts as a reason for witches and wizards to be anti-muggle, and as a rallying point to show how evil and violent muggles treat those they suspect to be witches.
Pretty sure the Statute of Secrecy is to protect wizards--Rowling once confirmed that the wizarding world went underground around the time gunpowder was invented, because it turned out that a muggle can shoot a gun faster than a wizard can cast a spell.
Ancient-Rhino Wang Yeah, like what if instead of making several movies based on a textbook that was offhandedly mentioned once or twice, they just made the Harry Potter movies again, but set in the United States equivalent, so that we can see the dramatic shift in wizarding culture.
I for one appreciate the Newsies reference, as it reminds me of a very enthusiastic 9th grade history teacher. Also, I have the same "goddammit it's Johnny Depp" about him, every time, no matter what film.
Also, I clocked the Grindelwald twist at the start, cuz they used the same shot of the back of his head and his hair looked the same. And if their hair looks the same then it's got to be the same person.
+Khushal Faraday-Bhakar going into the film I knew he was Grindelwald but then I noticed the same hair shot and I was like they're not being that obvious are they? So I was like maybe it's not because it was so obvious but then disappointment sank in
I'm surprised you didn't mention Newspaper Tycoon John Voight and his "I believe in magic" son and his "I don't believe in magic but that's cool because I'll probably be President someday-oops no I'm dead nevermind" son, who ended up not being all that important and I'm not sure why they were given as much screen time as they were, with everything else going on. Like they seemed like they were supposed to be more important other than giving yet another reason for Muggles/No-Majs to be scared of weird magic stuff and for John Voight to be upset that his kid died even though he'd forget about all of it anyways, but like along the way I feel like they're importance was left on the cutting room floor...unless they have some purpose in the sequels...but I kinda doubt it since John Voight and living" I believe in magic" son forgot everything.
PowerHungryLizardman I'm glad you reminded me because I 100% forgot about that stuff and it was indeed weird and went nowhere. It was an obvious setup for sequel story elements but that doesn't excuse its presence in this film. That's the bad thing about writing FOR a franchise versus writing an organically good story and then writing a standalone sequel because people liked the first one
Yup yup Could not agree more Jenny. Though I don't think Fantastic Beasts was the worst perpetrator of this "crime", it still fell into those traps every so often. :\
Oh my god, I remember that. Cause I was watching the movie going with the moments Jon Voight pops up and I''m like, "why are you here?" and in the climax where turns back up and moving civilians out of the way, I jokingly said, "Move out the way, I need to let people know I'm still in this movie." because he was gone for so long after the Obscurus killed his politician son and when he pops up, I'm like, "Oh yeah, I forgot you were in this." and did nothing but stand there and watch.
They served to show that Credence was the Obscurus because the guy and his son mistreated Credence when they met him so the Obscurus killed them. Except they decided to make Credence being an Obscurus the twist, so the audience had no idea what an Obscurus was or that Credence was one when this subplot happened so no one remembered them.
Grindelwald should morph into Jude Law. Reasons are as follows: 1) Doctor Parnassus callback because of the Farrell to Depp thing. 2) Jude Law has become awesome in his older age and is closer to Farrell than Depp at this point 3( I want everyone who sees it to be like "oh, who's that" and then google him and then proceed to watch Dom Hemingway. 4) Jude Law is understandable when it comes to Dumbledore's infatuation.
@@brandchan The only way to redeem the series is have Jude Law play all of the characters. We think Dumbledore is fighting Grindelwald at the end of the series - because who can tell them apart? - but then it's just the real Jude Law as a character in the series, which we only find out at the bottom of a transphobic tweet 13 years after the finale.
I imagine that the reason Graves/Grindelwald was able to just say "yea, go put Tina and Newt in the Wizard Acid" without those two seemingly nice women in white coats noticing is because he used the Imperius curse on them. It doesn't seem out of character for a dark wizard like Grindelwald.
Awesome vid! I basically agreed with everything you said. Though I feel that muggles could easily be a very dangerous force against the wizards. They have like guns, artillery, and tanks. Not to mention sheer numbers.
@@ChristieBrewster I can see an argument for that. And wizards definitely have advantages such as instantaneous movement. A single wizard is also more powerful than a single muggle. But again there are a gazillion muggles. And while over time, wizards would adapt, so would muggles. While magic seems more like a static thing, technology is always advancing. Theoretically to a point beyond what magic could ever achieve.
I love Jenny's videos and find them genuinely entertaining, but her voice is always very soothing so I love to use the videos I've seen several times to fall asleep to
I don't know if what Jenny or other TH-cam reviews do can really be called a "review" in the traditional sense of like Yelp reviews or NYT book reviews. Especially Jenny often focuses on stuff most of her audience won't consume no matter what (fanfic, bad self published books, critically panned movies). The "review" format is a pretense for comedy
Hey Jenny, I really enjoyed this video. I agreed with all of your points! Here are some more things that bothered me: 1. Everyone can apparate, but Newt has to travel by ship? Apparently we needed this really dramatic goodbye scene at the end, because Newt has to travel back to England to drop off his manuscript and it'll presumably be a while before he gets back to New York, but he can just POOF to England and then POOF back and be all, "Hey, I dropped off that book just now, can we get coffee or something?" 2. The beasts aren't actually that magical. There's the rhino that's just like a normal rhino except it's a little bigger than normal. And then there's the thing that just steals stuff and hides it all in its magically-large pouch, and then there's the thing that can see into the future, but only sort of, and has big blue eyes and looks like an old sloth combined with Yoda. How come the beasts don't do cooler stuff like apparate, or freeze people, or bend space, or whatever. Even the Obscurus doesn't do anything really awesome except for blow stuff up and hit people. Like, Dementors were an example of an awesome magical beast - they make it super cold, suck your joy out of you, and then eat your soul. That's way scarier than an Obscurus. 3. Why does the Ministry kill Ezra's character at the end? And Newt and Tina just watched what amounts to basically a murder of a scared, abused child and they don't really seem worked up about it. I mean, it's not Ezra's fault that he was abused by his mother, never got magical training, and then got hoodwinked by handsomely disguised Johnny Depp. Kind of a sympathetic character to get massacred without as much of a heavy sigh from our protagonists.
A big disappointment to me. I was mislead by the title and premise of the movie and expected to see where we find fantastic beasts in America. The Harry Potter series didn't have a huge advantage as far as the world it built, to me. Examples of missed opportunities: Jackalope, skunkape, couatl, unhcegila, sasquatch, wendigo chupacabra, oh-do-was, great white buffalo, ritual dances and shamans, gris-gris and voodoo, elemental magic, modern witchcraft, vision quests, fountain of youth, el dorado, paititi Would have liked to have seen something along the lines of Newt collecting specimens from American mythology as a conservation effort, as the native magic of the Americas had been vanishing since European invasion. The world might not be ready for a wizard on a drug induced vision quest with a sasquatch spirit guide through the Happy Hunting Grounds.
Love all you do and am always impressed with your clothes and props!! The idea of your big fat whale patronus charging at evil wizards, is fantastical beast like magic indeed.
Weirdly enough in the The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus the same character was played by Colin Farrell, Johnny Depp, Judd Law, and Heath Ledger due to Heath's sudden death. If they really wanted to save it they could have Johnny Depp transform into Jude Law just like you mention.
I really wonder how scripts can turn out so bland and clumsy, when a rando thoughtful nerd can make them so much better. Does all the blame belong to corporate panels? To studio execs?
@@adnanilyas6368 Yes. Beloved author J.K. Rowling was. So more of a case of bowing to the whims of the original creator than corporate meddling? Either way - status quo bullshit has shat all over the beginning of the franchise. Fingers crossed for the next three, I guess.
I think it's kind of incredible that you predicted yet another actor taking on Grindelwald... anyways I think Mads did a great job for what he was given
Are easily one of the funnier people I've watched on TH-cam. Your comedic delivery is more refined than I expected given the production method, but you are really good.
i still don't buy how that blue stuff worked the way the movie made it work. all newt said was that it had oblivating properties that were good for bad memories. But like, there's no way, as far as the movie explained, to fine tune it so that it only seeks out certain memories, like of magic, or does a certain time period. And discovering that magic is real would not be a bad memory for everyone. We saw how obliviating someone could go terribly wrong with Lockhart. And like, the muggles don't have anything to fill the gaps in their memory (which is something wizards typically fill in while theyre obliviating someone). what about the politician who died? does his family know he's dead? because this stuff just removed the memories, it didn't alter them. do they even remember him at all? how did the blue stuff fix that?
I wish they'd gone with the sinister by idiocy route that they went with for the British ministry in Order of the Phoenix rather than obvious bad guy in a good guy suit. It worked in Goblet of Fire because he behaved like a good guy up until the end but it was quite obvious in this.
Maybe it wasn't up to classic Disney afternoon standards but calling it is an abomination is pretty harsh. Plus it's kinda mean towards people who enjoyed it.
Mads Mikkelsen was the right casting wrong timing, if it had been him with that hannibal level manipulation and style from the beginning I would have been completely on board and understanding why daddy d couldn't wouldn't kill him
7:46 THERES A REASON SHES SUCH A PESSIMIST, PEOPLE! In seriousness though I really enjoy your videos. I was excited when I saw you made one for this movie.
Okay, my biggest problem with this movie was how visibly evil Grindlewald was. I didn't notice it at first but when I reread the Harry Potter books, they described him as cute, blond, boyish, and charming. You can understand how Dumbledore fell in love with him. I get that people change as they get older (ex: Voldemort), but from what I understand, Grindlewald didn't do any magic that would change his appearance so drastically that he looked like pale, bleached, scary Johnny. And I always think that handsome, boyish villains are the most interesting ones.
I enjoyed the fun monster hunting, but then the final act crumbled into an action movie with explosions and wands being used like pistols. And Johnny Depp - Jeeeshuz - his acting was more lazy than Jon Voight's delivery of the line, 'that thing killed my son, I want justice.'
"What does it mean? I don't know because there's no real connection but one character was related to another character whose name you've heard before...and that means that's a twist." This has aged very very well.
RIGHT
10:07 confirms Jenny IS magic
Jenny confirmed secret long lost Trelawney
This has aged very very very well lmao
What didn't age well is her feeling weird about Johnny Depp because his wife accused him of beating her.
I really wish they'd had an angle that focused more on Newt's being a Zoologist. Like the villains were magical creature poachers or something, and then they can be revealed at the end to be in league with Grindelwald for... reasons.
like maybe newt hears about magical creature populations rapidly decreasing and goes to investigate so now hes motivated boom
So, Pokémon?
Because there would be magical creatures and crime? I think you need a few more threads to connect the themes of those franchises.
Jenny please don't freak out but there is like the biggest spider on the thing behind you
Glozwell 😱😱😱😱😱
Eh. I've seen bigger. That spider ain't got nuttin' on Aragog - King of Arachnids.
Don’t you mean “in the thing behind you,” sorry that I’m a grammar snob 😂
@@edwardduda4222 i get you
@@edwardduda4222 Calling yourself a grammar snob is accurate since you hold yourself to a higher standard that doesn't actually exist, like a snob does. "On" is undeniably more correct than "in".
"And there was that whole year where Mad-Eye Moody was trapped in a trunk. Probably not even the saddest year of Mad-Eye Moody's life."
LoonyScamander absolute best one-liner here
Justice for Mad-Eye, he was cool as fuck. I demand a spin off.
.....A spin-off headed by someone other than JK
LoonyScamander Probably not, considering that his most defining features are having at least two gruesome deformities, and being incredibly grumpy from his career in the wizarding Special Forces.
legit one of the funniest things i've ever heard oh my god
@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick God, imagine being a character whose entire being is based around being physically deformed
I really want her to just review everything... like cereal brands to vacation spots
Gorgonzola. What's up with that? Or random shoes.
She needs to get back to her roots and clean some my little ponies!
It's like she's the new Mark from Classic Game Room. She could review tomatoes from her garden and it would be entertaining.
Or cereal brands AT vacation spots.
Lore Sjoberg used to have a site called Book Of Ratings and it had like 5 lists of cereals and one quick Oreo Os rating snuck into his Ninja Weapons list. The book version is on Amazon (with bonus new ratings like Vampire Weaknesses) but he did more after, including video ratings.
I really wanted the scene at the end of the movie to be more like this:
Grindelward: You think you can hold me?
President: It's 1926 and this is America. We execute criminals.
Grindelward: Wait, what?
They caught him slippin' up
This would have been especially good after they tried to execute Newt (A FOREIGN CITIZEN who WORKS FOR THE BRITISH MINISTRY, albeit on a grant basis) and an ex-employee of their OWN GOVERNMENT in like two hours after a single interrogation by one dude and everyone just seemed?? Fine with it?? I love that execution of foreign officials via shiny hydrochloric pensieve juice does not, in fact, require due process.
Mekarus Yeah, they’ve only tried imprisoning the magic equivalent of Adolf Hitler mixed with Charles Manson, but they’re totally cool with executing a servant of the court without a day in trial.
I heard Childish Gambino when I read that sentence, which was pretty appropriate
They just straight up fucking gun him down mobster style. Not even the wizards. Just some angry New York gangsters who are mad that grindlewalds shenanigans have somehow affected their underground crime business.
“I think the sequels could be really fun” She doesn’t know what she has coming
I agree, Grindelwald should keep changing identities, but ultimately (after 6 changes) he lands on Kevin Bacon, because every actor can be related to Kevin Bacon. And during the movie, to get information out of someone, he should force them to dance against their wishes. _ivivos saltandi_
Honestly, just make him Danny De Vito, I'm confident that the Trash Man can pull it off better than anyone else
Fantastic Bacons and How You're Related to Them: Degrees of Separation
That'd be amazing, like the sixties Casino Royale movie where James Bond is played by ten different people.
"Voldemort Resurrection Cemetery Taco Truck Pavilion."
Very yes.
just got here but your coney island idea is fucking genius. imagine how much fun it would be to watch. and all the vintage theme-park merch possibilities!!
"Oh, no! We can't erase all these muggles' memory. There's, like, a thousand of them, and, like, a hundred of us, and I'm tired, and we're just all gonna die."
They should learn how to do the Statue of Liberty trick from Men in Black 2.
Where do you think the mib got their tech from? @@chadschmaltz9790
they are American, so...
@@haileymccurry3756 Obviously not the wizards in Bryan's comment.
We could've had Colin Farrell and Jude Law tension.. aaah T.T
Eh. Dumbledore is never gonna be canonically written as gay anyway, so it doesn't matter.=/
I'm not bitter.
I'd have even been happy with Colin Farrell as Grindelwald's right-hand man. A capable, dapper and menacing villain who can continue to do so in a supporting role.
@@babydollface I am so upset that they did make Dumbledore canonically gay in the sequels, and yet it's somehow still bad.
That one writing class sure paid off
Whoosh.
bazinga...
Oh no
I bet that creative writing proff is right in her Instagram DMs being like 'plz promote my new novel' and sending unsolicited dic pics.
@@TomSmith-hu9eh 🧐
17:55 This makes the ending of the movie 10x funnier because in the final shot with the bird, it is flying east into the Atlantic, so the only conclusion is that after being let loose into New York, the bird confusedly flew into the ocean and died.
Her hair has more character progression than the movie.
There's an easy way to nearly fix the creatures looking fake. Do what I call "The Jurassic Park Trick."
Jurassic Park has a lot of cg creatures but you buy it because they will do close shots of the dinos and use a puppet or animatronic, then show the cgi dino.
The practical effect doesn't need to be of the full creature or even have much articulation, since it will be a tight shot that only shows part of the creature. This establishes the creature as a psyichal object that actually exists in the scene, so that you view the cgi creature as being that real object.
This is part of why Jurassic World looks fake, they don't setup the dino with a practical effect, it's just all cgi.
This is kinda what JJ Abrams, Garett Edwards, and James Wan do quite often. If they can make it physically they do their damnedest to build it and make it look as good as possible... well... except for Aquaman it seems I’m James Wan’s case.
Jason Fenton There are some AMAZING videos of the jump tests of puppets they made for Jurassic Park on youtube... like this one which you can watch here - th-cam.com/video/Hyfy8rrfOkM/w-d-xo.html
Jason Fenton “what I call” 😂 you think you’re the only one who associates that trick with Jurassic Park
The basilisk in chamber of secrets was like that as well.
@@trequor Forget the bat mobile. I can’t believe the bat motorcycle was a practical effect. Like hot damn!
"You're like aw he never grew up....but then you're like oh. He NEVER grew up..."
It’s interesting how the public perception of Johnny Depp, Ezra Miller, and JK Rowling have changed so much since this video was made.
I was watching this and thinking… “okay so we didn’t know that video was amber heard conveniently filming him finding out the death of his mother and we definitely didn’t have those other tapes of how their relationship was toxic on both sides but like…did we have the knowledge from Amber’s ex-wife?” I think Johnny is still middle ground like “dude you need rehab and therapy” which even in the times of POTC if you read his interviews he was pretty open about having a lot of emotional issues and substance problems.
Ezra and JK though 😬- like Jude Law cheating on his wife with the nanny years ago is some how one of the least problematic people on set
@@casna5400 what recording are you talking about? I can't find anything about her doing that
@@casna5400 shut, and i cannot stress this enough, up
I feel like JK and JD have both been publicly redeemed (except by some crazy factions on twitter and the "generally speaking here" far left)
For the most part the majority view JK as a prolific author who shaped a nation and is a strong role model for young women. And JD as a man who was abused by his ex and needs years of rehab and therapy to help him cope with the life that was stolen.
Ezra though that mf commited crimes and is in need of jail and mental help ASAP!
@@hotelmario510 Why? They made actual points. Care to eloborate or just tell people to shut up in the brattiest way possible?
You're comedic timing is astonishing.
*Your
@@KeiraRachel She just personifies the entire concept of comedic timing it seems
This is making me a fan of deadpan humour.
Agreed on the beasts looking too CGI. Prisoner of Azkaban came out over 10 years ago (wow, I feel old) and Buckbeak looked and felt way more lifelike than any of the creatures in this movie. Not to mention he had more personality. The jewel theif platapus was the only one that was remotely memorable.
About Eddie being good in everything though - I'm guessing you didn't see Jupiter Ascending lol. It was definitely a case of an actor trying really hard in a really stupid movie. But that's what made it so bad.
TJ Hastie listen.... Jupiter Ascending was bad from the start, Eddie had literally no chance of saving it even if he really wanted to... Plus can we agree that the writing and directing was horrible, and the actors do what the script and director tells them to, so.....
IDK, looking CGI and weird can make it more fantastical and marginal because of the unreality. Same with the interior of the trunk.
Happy thoughts the actor who plays Newt Scamander
TJ Hastie Buckbeak was an animatronic in a lot of the shots, yes he was CGI sometimes, but often he was a real life model
DragonFang 409 Hmm. That explains why it looked better. CGI is only really nice looking when you drown it in money or when it’s only used to enhance the physical effects.
Some of the best creature performances I've ever seen were physical puppets operated by actors, with rig removal to hide the actor and supplemental components composited in to match the motion of the puppet. This technique lets other actors interact with something real to make the creatures more convincing AND lets artists use cgi elements to their greatest potential.
Michael Bay has turned us all into old ladies.
"Here comes lots of noise'... haha I love that
Rofl
"Here comes the squirts..." Oh wait, wrong Michael Bay movies.
@@the0rangekind hillarius
This, though. I was in high school when his first Transformer movie came out and I watched almost all the movies of the series in cinema... because that's what a confused, yet extrovert high school me did. I suppose all those action scenes had scarred me for life now, LMAO.
Rewatching Jenny's Fantastic Beasts videos in celebration of the inevitable third installment of her reviews, and it is as if she is making wishes on a monkey's paw.
"I wish there was more going on, what if Grindelwald was a different actor, I wish we could see more of the magic world."
Oh, how innocent we were.
"One character was related to another character whose name you've heard before--and that means that's a twist."
That poor spider...sitting there the whole time with his arms crossed. Prolly pissed off because there isn't any cake.
The cake is a lie!
@@colormedubious4747 i understood that reference! ☺
I love the part where she just decides to scrap the entire plot and just make it Newsies.
So true. Unreliable narrator is when a parent sometimes has too much to drink, and passes out before they finish reading a bedtime story.
Ahaha oh my god
I started off neutral. Then this review made me not want to see it but by the end, I wanted to see it to put this review in context.
I'll wait for the VHS.
It's far from neutral. You should go watch it, VHS will have you waiting for so long.
PirateBay, my friend...
Chaos Corner watch it, it's a great movie
VHS? What are you? 70?
It's a GREAT film! Will it change your life? No.
Is she being a bit nit-picky? Yes!
You can watch/stream it here btw (nice clean definition)
gomovies.to/film/fantastic-beast-and-where-to-find-them-17919/
Remember, she was wearing RAB's necklace through part of the video so she might be more negative than she normally is.
"Bleached out vengeful clown" 😂
"one character was related to another character whose name you've heard before, and that means that's a twist" oh jenny, you have no idea
His face then proceeds to melt into Mads Mikkelsen
Get it, Dumbledore.
I get that the Obscurous (spelling?) was important, but that portion of the movie with Grindelwald felt like a separate story from Newt's and it took the focus away from even the film's title. I say keep that, but also add sense of urgency to finding these creatures. The creatures weren't really hunted by the wizarding community like Newt feared. I think it would've been more effective if Graves/Grindelwald personally led an initiative to capturing them for power and killing the useless ones. Let the Thunderbird out and have him brutally attack it and capture it for his own use under the guise of protecting the community. This makes the conflict between he and Newt much more personal and the title of the film much more crucial. Newt NEEDS to find them. When he gets his creatures, Graves is still seeking an Obscurial and Newt learns of this and needs to help this boy too. I loved the movie, but there wasn't much urgency felt by the audience for him to collect his creatures. Actually letting one of them die by Graves would have, in my opinion, made this really good movie great and could have tied the two stories into one. This might add a half hour, but I don't care. What do you all think?
(Old comment, but Idc) That would definitely be more dramatic, but I think they're doing a similar thing to the Harry Potter movies, and the next few movies are going to be darker and darker.
There are going to be more fantastic beasts movies?
4 more in fact, the next one comes out Nov. 15
Carlos Rodriguez this is so much more correct now that the second movie is out
New drinking game. Take a shot whenever you notice a change in her outfit.
That's a good way to get cirrhosis
Livers are for wussies!
I think you low key want people to die
"I think the sequels could be really fun"
Oh noooooo...
It's baffling why Rowling would make the lore being that the Salem witches were real witches and were impervious to being burned alive or crushed or whatever. It is so much more sensical for the women to have been muggles, like in reality, and have the tragedy of the witch-hunts as a reason for witches and wizards to be anti-muggle, and as a rallying point to show how evil and violent muggles treat those they suspect to be witches.
I imagine Jenny is someone who when confronted with a house spider, escorts it outside to see it off with a gentle pat.
Pretty sure the Statute of Secrecy is to protect wizards--Rowling once confirmed that the wizarding world went underground around the time gunpowder was invented, because it turned out that a muggle can shoot a gun faster than a wizard can cast a spell.
CaptHayfever true...think about it. The wizards in harry potter aren't that useful
CaptHayfever So... Rowling doesn't understand how 17th century guns work?
M'kay.
@@StarWarsomania or just maybe wizards understand that overtime tech improves and that the guns were eventually going to outclass them
@@Scott-ql2kx Yet they have trains
But.... wizards can use guns too, or create the magic version of a gun just as they did with trains and other stuff
I really wish they could reveal the look and history of Ilvermorny Magic School. That will make the movie way more interesting.
I wish the whole movie had taken place in Ilvermorny.
well, Ilvermony doesn't seem really thought out, i feel like JK doesn't really care about coherence
to hell with Ilvermony I wanna see some fuckin cowboy wizards
Ancient-Rhino Wang Yeah, like what if instead of making several movies based on a textbook that was offhandedly mentioned once or twice, they just made the Harry Potter movies again, but set in the United States equivalent, so that we can see the dramatic shift in wizarding culture.
@@bimbolecter9764 It wasn't thought out anyway, might as well have some more fun with it
Trapped in a Coney Island with Josh Hutcherson
I for one appreciate the Newsies reference, as it reminds me of a very enthusiastic 9th grade history teacher.
Also, I have the same "goddammit it's Johnny Depp" about him, every time, no matter what film.
The Goblin was voiced by Ron Perlman, quite the opposite of a dwarf
Also, I clocked the Grindelwald twist at the start, cuz they used the same shot of the back of his head and his hair looked the same. And if their hair looks the same then it's got to be the same person.
Hey, that's how it works in anime.
+Khushal Faraday-Bhakar going into the film I knew he was Grindelwald but then I noticed the same hair shot and I was like they're not being that obvious are they? So I was like maybe it's not because it was so obvious but then disappointment sank in
I'm surprised you didn't mention Newspaper Tycoon John Voight and his "I believe in magic" son and his "I don't believe in magic but that's cool because I'll probably be President someday-oops no I'm dead nevermind" son, who ended up not being all that important and I'm not sure why they were given as much screen time as they were, with everything else going on. Like they seemed like they were supposed to be more important other than giving yet another reason for Muggles/No-Majs to be scared of weird magic stuff and for John Voight to be upset that his kid died even though he'd forget about all of it anyways, but like along the way I feel like they're importance was left on the cutting room floor...unless they have some purpose in the sequels...but I kinda doubt it since John Voight and living" I believe in magic" son forgot everything.
PowerHungryLizardman I'm glad you reminded me because I 100% forgot about that stuff and it was indeed weird and went nowhere. It was an obvious setup for sequel story elements but that doesn't excuse its presence in this film.
That's the bad thing about writing FOR a franchise versus writing an organically good story and then writing a standalone sequel because people liked the first one
Yup yup Could not agree more Jenny. Though I don't think Fantastic Beasts was the worst perpetrator of this "crime", it still fell into those traps every so often. :\
Oh my god, I remember that. Cause I was watching the movie going with the moments Jon Voight pops up and I''m like, "why are you here?" and in the climax where turns back up and moving civilians out of the way, I jokingly said, "Move out the way, I need to let people know I'm still in this movie." because he was gone for so long after the Obscurus killed his politician son and when he pops up, I'm like, "Oh yeah, I forgot you were in this." and did nothing but stand there and watch.
They served to show that Credence was the Obscurus because the guy and his son mistreated Credence when they met him so the Obscurus killed them. Except they decided to make Credence being an Obscurus the twist, so the audience had no idea what an Obscurus was or that Credence was one when this subplot happened so no one remembered them.
"I took a writing class one time, so I'm qualified." Literally me.
If you were a writer you’d know the meaning of ‘literally.’
@tomoliver2112 hating on the use of literally in an ironic context in the year of our lord 2020 is crazy
Grindelwald should morph into Jude Law. Reasons are as follows:
1) Doctor Parnassus callback because of the Farrell to Depp thing.
2) Jude Law has become awesome in his older age and is closer to Farrell than Depp at this point
3( I want everyone who sees it to be like "oh, who's that" and then google him and then proceed to watch Dom Hemingway.
4) Jude Law is understandable when it comes to Dumbledore's infatuation.
Wait did you predict that Jude Law would be in this movie, and just got the role wrong? I'm impressed.
@@emilyb.8219 I'd be fine if Jude Law played both roles. Would have been a better movie.
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@@brandchan The only way to redeem the series is have Jude Law play all of the characters. We think Dumbledore is fighting Grindelwald at the end of the series - because who can tell them apart? - but then it's just the real Jude Law as a character in the series, which we only find out at the bottom of a transphobic tweet 13 years after the finale.
"I like that it's set in america. That's different." Absolutely dripping with acid sarcasm. Hahaha
They didn't burn anyone at the stake in Salem, Massachusetts. One guy was crushed under boulders (Giles Corey), the rest were hanged.
shout out to my man giles corey from the scarlet letter i love you homie
Just like to give you a 3-year-late shout-out for using the correct word - they were hanged, not hung.
A lot of them died in prison too
@StarWarsomania you don't know if they were hung 😏
Coney Island suggestion is spot on.
13:25 3 years ago: “You can’t just write out Grindlewald”
2020: Or so we thought!
I imagine that the reason Graves/Grindelwald was able to just say "yea, go put Tina and Newt in the Wizard Acid" without those two seemingly nice women in white coats noticing is because he used the Imperius curse on them. It doesn't seem out of character for a dark wizard like Grindelwald.
The best part of setting Fantastic Beasts in 20s coney island is that you can do a stealth crossover with acclaimed musical, Love Never Dies
Awesome vid! I basically agreed with everything you said. Though I feel that muggles could easily be a very dangerous force against the wizards. They have like guns, artillery, and tanks. Not to mention sheer numbers.
only problem was they didn't use that in the movie
To be fair, wizards could have and improve muggle technology if they really wanted to
@@ChristieBrewster I can see an argument for that. And wizards definitely have advantages such as instantaneous movement. A single wizard is also more powerful than a single muggle. But again there are a gazillion muggles. And while over time, wizards would adapt, so would muggles. While magic seems more like a static thing, technology is always advancing. Theoretically to a point beyond what magic could ever achieve.
I learned that good actors can push a lot of slime out of their face.
The CGI alien bugs in Starship Troopers looked better than the 'fantastic beasts' in this. And Starship Troopers came out 19 years ago.
ExNyarlathotep , (insert Starship troopers theme song)
zinki120 *would you like to know more?*
THE ONLY GOOD BUG
IS A DEAD BUG
James Davis , nice. LOL.
***** Indeed.
I love Jenny's videos and find them genuinely entertaining, but her voice is always very soothing so I love to use the videos I've seen several times to fall asleep to
Does it say more about me or about Hollywood that I find movie reviews like this one more entertaining than the movies themselves?
I don't know if what Jenny or other TH-cam reviews do can really be called a "review" in the traditional sense of like Yelp reviews or NYT book reviews. Especially Jenny often focuses on stuff most of her audience won't consume no matter what (fanfic, bad self published books, critically panned movies). The "review" format is a pretense for comedy
oof, the bit about how you would never want to visit the fantastic beast locations........bad news about the new park universal is building lmaooooo
Hey Jenny, I really enjoyed this video. I agreed with all of your points! Here are some more things that bothered me:
1. Everyone can apparate, but Newt has to travel by ship? Apparently we needed this really dramatic goodbye scene at the end, because Newt has to travel back to England to drop off his manuscript and it'll presumably be a while before he gets back to New York, but he can just POOF to England and then POOF back and be all, "Hey, I dropped off that book just now, can we get coffee or something?"
2. The beasts aren't actually that magical. There's the rhino that's just like a normal rhino except it's a little bigger than normal. And then there's the thing that just steals stuff and hides it all in its magically-large pouch, and then there's the thing that can see into the future, but only sort of, and has big blue eyes and looks like an old sloth combined with Yoda. How come the beasts don't do cooler stuff like apparate, or freeze people, or bend space, or whatever. Even the Obscurus doesn't do anything really awesome except for blow stuff up and hit people. Like, Dementors were an example of an awesome magical beast - they make it super cold, suck your joy out of you, and then eat your soul. That's way scarier than an Obscurus.
3. Why does the Ministry kill Ezra's character at the end? And Newt and Tina just watched what amounts to basically a murder of a scared, abused child and they don't really seem worked up about it. I mean, it's not Ezra's fault that he was abused by his mother, never got magical training, and then got hoodwinked by handsomely disguised Johnny Depp. Kind of a sympathetic character to get massacred without as much of a heavy sigh from our protagonists.
A big disappointment to me. I was mislead by the title and premise of the movie and expected to see where we find fantastic beasts in America.
The Harry Potter series didn't have a huge advantage as far as the world it built, to me.
Examples of missed opportunities:
Jackalope, skunkape, couatl, unhcegila, sasquatch, wendigo chupacabra, oh-do-was, great white buffalo, ritual dances and shamans, gris-gris and voodoo, elemental magic, modern witchcraft, vision quests, fountain of youth, el dorado, paititi
Would have liked to have seen something along the lines of Newt collecting specimens from American mythology as a conservation effort, as the native magic of the Americas had been vanishing since European invasion. The world might not be ready for a wizard on a drug induced vision quest with a sasquatch spirit guide through the Happy Hunting Grounds.
THIS SOUNDS AMAZING!!!! I wish they went with this route... imagine all the amazing aboriginal actors they’d be able to hire!!!!!!
Great idea!
Love all you do and am always impressed with your clothes and props!! The idea of your big fat whale patronus charging at evil wizards, is fantastical beast like magic indeed.
Weirdly enough in the The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus the same character was played by Colin Farrell, Johnny Depp, Judd Law, and Heath Ledger due to Heath's sudden death. If they really wanted to save it they could have Johnny Depp transform into Jude Law just like you mention.
Jenny, the shit you say is spot on. Love your videos
Also the newsies joke was pefect
LOL I would love to see Jenny’s take on those new “4D” experiences where they shoot you with air and shake your seat during the movie
I remember that when I was little. It was a Dora movie or something. Unless you count 10~ish years ago as new...
I had to sit forward in my seat during 4D movies because they keep jabbing me in the back
I really wonder how scripts can turn out so bland and clumsy, when a rando thoughtful nerd can make them so much better. Does all the blame belong to corporate panels? To studio execs?
www.cracked.com/blog/4-reasons-why-bad-movies-are-allowed-to-happen/
It is just a case of " Too many cooks " and product placement over-load .
... Um. Wasn’t beloved children’s author J. K. Rowling the screenwriter for these movies?
@@adnanilyas6368 Yes. Beloved author J.K. Rowling was.
So more of a case of bowing to the whims of the original creator than corporate meddling? Either way - status quo bullshit has shat all over the beginning of the franchise. Fingers crossed for the next three, I guess.
luiysia thanks for that link, a great article.
That whole thing about whenever Credence cries was just too real that it had me dying for like 5 minutes
"I think the sequels could be really fun." Oh, Jenny. Jenny, Jenny, Jenny.
You are absolutely one of the most entertaining creators I have stumbled upon! Binging all your vods!
Ending on an extended Newsies joke was the BEST call, I loved it.
"One of the greatest authors of our time". Nostalgia is a powerful drug.
I think it's kind of incredible that you predicted yet another actor taking on Grindelwald... anyways I think Mads did a great job for what he was given
That giant spider in the back is freaking me out!!! I can't watch! :-(
I think Hagrid will be very sad to hear this :'(
Spiders are just Puppies. With exoskeletons. And extra legs. BASICALLY THE SAME!
*****
That happens every Tuesday. That's the one day a week he eats.
Are you quite sure that's a puppy?
Are easily one of the funnier people I've watched on TH-cam. Your comedic delivery is more refined than I expected given the production method, but you are really good.
This movie is iconic for casting Johnny Depp as the Joker
i still don't buy how that blue stuff worked the way the movie made it work. all newt said was that it had oblivating properties that were good for bad memories. But like, there's no way, as far as the movie explained, to fine tune it so that it only seeks out certain memories, like of magic, or does a certain time period. And discovering that magic is real would not be a bad memory for everyone.
We saw how obliviating someone could go terribly wrong with Lockhart. And like, the muggles don't have anything to fill the gaps in their memory (which is something wizards typically fill in while theyre obliviating someone). what about the politician who died? does his family know he's dead? because this stuff just removed the memories, it didn't alter them. do they even remember him at all? how did the blue stuff fix that?
Plus a lot of people were indoors and it was supposed to be spread by the rain
Carrie fisher did what you're doing on this video for a living. She was known as a great script fixer in the biz for a long time.
Really?
"well not good but he's tried really hard" *violent jupiter ascending flashbacks*
They pretty much should hire you already to read these freakin scripts before they get pushed through
Every time you referenced Newsies my heart jumped up to my throat. I could not be happier about you liking that movie holy cow
I wish they'd gone with the sinister by idiocy route that they went with for the British ministry in Order of the Phoenix rather than obvious bad guy in a good guy suit. It worked in Goblet of Fire because he behaved like a good guy up until the end but it was quite obvious in this.
"I think the sequels could be fun"
Ahahaha, I love living in the future
Jenny is the voice of reason in this insane world.
Jenny, Dumbledore said you can't go in the Chamber of Secrets bounce house anymore. Especially not with waffle irons.
If I was an actor I would simply not cry slime all over my face.
Don't knock Lilo and Stich the series! ;)😉
Zachary Richard That show was, as Gantu would say, an abomination
how dare you
do you think you can get away with saying this
Jenny Nicholson agreed.
Maybe it wasn't up to classic Disney afternoon standards but calling it is an abomination is pretty harsh. Plus it's kinda mean towards people who enjoyed it.
Mads Mikkelsen was the right casting wrong timing, if it had been him with that hannibal level manipulation and style from the beginning I would have been completely on board and understanding why daddy d couldn't wouldn't kill him
You're becoming Mike Stoklasa that's what's happening.
Ghey Vulture Good
Jenny is a hack fraud!
Is Jenny replacing Mike?
Oh my GahhhhhhhhD
I really would like to see Half in the Bag episode with Jenny as a guest
As someone who loved the movie, I really love your review. You're so straight forward and intelligent. 10/10 please make more of these.
still angry about the popcorn refills club I see
I honestly learn so much from these movie reviews. If I ever write a book I will avoid so many mistakes because I watched these.
7:46 THERES A REASON SHES SUCH A PESSIMIST, PEOPLE!
In seriousness though I really enjoy your videos. I was excited when I saw you made one for this movie.
took me a second but I got there haha
explain yourself
Danilo Souza Castro I think she's wearing the slytherin locket which became a horcrux. Wearing it makes you irritable.
ohh.. tnks!
Christian Santana Haha you got it :)
I'm pretty sure the "Voldemort Resurrection Cemetery Taco Truck Pavilion" would be the best thing ever.
It was so cool meeting you! This was hilarious btw! We're huge fans :)
Man there was an episode of the lilo and stitch series that I think about every gd day. Anyone remember the experiment that made stuff younger??
i'd love to see one of your videos animated
Okay, my biggest problem with this movie was how visibly evil Grindlewald was. I didn't notice it at first but when I reread the Harry Potter books, they described him as cute, blond, boyish, and charming. You can understand how Dumbledore fell in love with him. I get that people change as they get older (ex: Voldemort), but from what I understand, Grindlewald didn't do any magic that would change his appearance so drastically that he looked like pale, bleached, scary Johnny. And I always think that handsome, boyish villains are the most interesting ones.
Great review Jenny! I hope you do another WestWorld after the series finale this Sunday. Your last one was incredible!
I enjoyed the fun monster hunting, but then the final act crumbled into an action movie with explosions and wands being used like pistols. And Johnny Depp - Jeeeshuz - his acting was more lazy than Jon Voight's delivery of the line, 'that thing killed my son, I want justice.'
“Good actor, good looking face, get it Dumbledore 😏”
I feel like this is more witty and with more dry jokes than Jenny's newer stuff. I'm kind of into it.
the jokes are definitely less subtle and referential, i'll give you that.
Lost my shit @ "Voldemort resurrection cemetery taco-truck pavilion"
You're so hilarious! Thanks for doing what you do
I loved the extended Newsies joke