20 Worst Moments In Wizarding World Movies

13. Newt's Silly Dance - Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them

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Though undeniably flawed, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a lovely spin-off film and much like most of the franchise's films, it's short on truly awful moments. Still, there is this stupendously dumb scene featuring Newt doing a bizarre dance in order to try and calm down and recapture an Erumpent, which is one of the beasts which has escaped into New York.

Most of the comedy in this movie works just fine, but this part really doesn't. Surely there was a less annoying method Newt could've used to tame the Erumpent? For example, he could've had a rattle or something like that. Anyhow, this needed to go - poor Eddie Redmayne looked uncomfortable to be performing this scene.

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