Fantastic Beasts: 21 WTF Moments
15. That Sex Dance (And Potential Erumpent Rape)
There are some things I legitimately never thought I would ever write as a film fan: the subject of Eddie Redmayne performing an enticing sex dance for a giant mutant cross between a slug and a rhinoceros to make it horny enough to recapture it is definitely one of them.
The whole sequence showing the attempted capture of the aggressively sexual Erumpent is a particularly odd one, not only because of Newt's dance (try scrubbing out the rather charming image of Redmayne wiggling his backside at the camera like some sort of bumbling baboon, I dare you), but also because the unspoken climax of that scene would be horrific. We're encouraged to laugh as the creature chases poor Kowalski, but surely the likely end-goal would see it have its wicked way with him without so much as a hint of consent.
In 2016! Tumblr should be furious.