The Final Fantastic Beasts Trailer Screen Shot Breakdown
By Ani Bundel
Image via Warner Brothers
The final trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them arrived this morning, and we’ve broken it down frame by frame and beast by beast.
The final trailer for Fantastic Beasts is here, and good GOD there’s a lot of Beasts in it. I know, that’s the title of the movie, right/ AND YET. So far the trailers have been very skimpy with the showing of the beasts. Why? Well, partly because when the first trailer came out, and lot of them were still under construction inside the servers of the CGI department in the bowels of Warner Brothers. The second trailer was more forthcoming, but only showed a strategic amount of magical creatures. Also we didn’t get to see inside Newt’s case.
Welp, that’s all now out the window. The trailer dropped and wow there are a LOT of beasts in this thing. There’s tons of new footage to, including more shots of inside Woolworths, a tour of inside Newt Scamander’s case and, oh yeah, our first look at the actual bad guys in this movie!
We break down the insanity starting now!
Two nice young witches lived in a tenement house.
And then one day….
A Newt came into their lives.
This is my new favorite shot of Seraphina.
Knock Knock…..
Who’s there?
Newt! Newt Who?
Peekaboo, I see you.
Can you imagine British wizards having a sit down at the bar with a goblin or a house elf? For all that America is supposedly so oppressive, those of the magical persuasion seem to be more equal among each other.
Yeah.,…take that!
Oh look, the most unsubtle reference to our terrorism era EVER PUT IN A FANTASY MOVIE.
Someone should tell the Niffler he doesn’t make a very good bit of window dressing.
What? I could be a model!
Seeing this scene more clearly in this trailer means one thing.
Jacob is already inside Woolworths at this point. They brought a No-maj into the MACUSA.
Yeah, I’d be pretty overwhelmed too Jacob.
And a reminder of how Rowling and the English hear Americans speak inside their imaginations.
I mena, if you’re really confused why no-maj, do yourself a favor. Say it in the flatest, thickest Alabama style accent you can out loud.
Then understand that’s how the British hear Americans speak all the time, and *that’s* where the word “no-maj” came from.
FINALLY! An answer to “what’s in the box…” err I mean “What’s in the case?”
For the record, this is a really cool effect.
I’m late! I’m late! For a very important date!
Ow! I’ll bet that landing’s going to leave a mark.
Meanwhile inside the case: BEASTS! MAGICAL FANTASTIC BEASTS!
…and….sunshine?
Wow…it really is Wonderland down in here. Like, an entire slice of the English countryside.
And an enormous garden! (Those shots of Newt in what I thought was a lab or a shed of some kind were clearly from inside the case.)
Awwww, cute little bowtrickle!
Because when the English go on holiday, they take their gardening with them.
Let it never be said that Rowling doesn’t have a sense of humor about her fellow English.
And their…odd habits and hobbies.
Oh right, yes, New York.
And new shots of Shaw’s political rally getting blown up.
But we also get a new shot of our actual bad guy!
Ladies and gentlemen, Samantha Morton as Mary Lou, the sinister leader of the New Salem Philanthropic Society (the NSPS.)
Yes ma’am there ARE witches among us.
And they dress FABulously.
No, really that’s what all these images boil down to.
Oh but we do get a shot of Ezra Miller as Credence! He’s Mary Lou’s “troubled and mysterious adopted son.”
And apparently he and Graves are in cahoots!
Seraphina and the Auror Gang.
For these next few pictures, whistle West Side Story‘s Jets vs Shark song and snap your fingers.
I know, it really works.
Oh hello Thunderbird! Nice to meet you again.
Tina and Queenie are taking a tour of Inside The Case Land.
It’s much nicer inside…
….than out.
Don’t get hot! Cause man you’ve got some high times a head….
GRINDELWALD REFERENCE! DRINK!
Do these look like people with a plan?
I mean their plan is to….
…capture the Occamy….
In a tea kettle.
So British.
MORE AWESOME BEASTS.
Also, awesome magic. Just because.
Poor Niffler. You better run!
HOUSE HUFFLEPUFF 4EVA.
Did Jacob just punch out a goblin?
Queenie does not look impressed.
Tina better not be offed. Just saying.
What *is* Graves’ plan here?
And how do these two deal with their love being forbidden?
And how does Tina ever forgive Newt for turning her life upside down?
Is happening in this Subway station?
Fantastic Beasts arrives in theaters everywhere November 18th, 2016.